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Languages of Wikipedia

Geotagged Articles in Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Persian, and Swahili Wikipedias Language Arabic English Persian French Data obtained from Wikipedia in Nov 2011. Mark Graham, Bernie Hogan, Ahmed Medhat, and Richard Farmbrough. Oxford Internet Institute. In collaboration with Ilhem Allagui and Ali Frihida. Funding provided by the IDRC. More info: Mark Graham (t: @geoplace) or www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis ● Hebrew • Swahili

Languages of Wikipedia

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This map should be interpreted with caution for a few reasons. First, it only displays content from six Wikipedias (there are currently 282 of them). Second, many articles in multiple languages appear... in the same place. The reason for this is that they are articles about the same feature, event, or place: albeit in different languages. This means that when mapping those features, the dots in each language will show up on the map in exactly the same place. As such, we get a lot of overlapping dots. And dots that higher up in the legend will then necessarily show up on top of others.

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