Cross-language Wikipedia editing of Okinawa, Japan

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This article analyzes users who edit Wikipedia articles about Okinawa, Japan, in English and Japanese. It finds these users are among the most active and dedicated users in their primary languages, where they make many large, high-quality edits. However, when these users edit in their non-primary languages, they tend to make edits of a different type that are overall smaller in size and more often restricted to the narrow set of articles that exist in both languages. Design changes to motivate wider contributions from users in their non-primary languages and to encourage multilingual users to transfer more information across language divides are presented.

Authors: Hale, SA

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Host title: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Pages: 183-192
• Publication date: 2015-04-18
• Event title: 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15)
• Event location: Seoul, Korea
• Event website: http://chi2015.acm.org
• Event start date: 2015-04-18
• Event end date: 2015-04-23
• DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702346
• ISBN: 9781450331456
• Language: English
• Keywords: social media; Wikipedia; information discovery; social network analysis; information diffusion; cross-language; multilingual