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Use of Wikipedia for Statistics on Culture

Explore insights on world heritage through Wikipedia data analysis. Discover top heritage sites, page views trends, and language distribution. Utilize Wikidata for tourism statistics exploration.

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Use of Wikipedia for Statistics on Culture

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  1. Use of Wikipedia for Statistics on Culture 23 Nov 2016 Bogomil Kovachev Eurostat

  2. Big data at Eurostat Scheveningen ESS (European Statistical System) • Scheveningen Memorandum Sep 2013 •  Task Force Big Data •  Big Data Roadmap and Action Plan June 2014 • May 2015 Big Data Business Cases • Nov 2015 Big Data ESSnet • Jan 2016 Contract on supporting services • ESS Vision 2020 European Commission Communication • Data4Policy Networking Group International cooperation (UNSD, UNECE, etc.) • UN/ECE project “Big data in official statistics” (Sandbox) • UNSD Global WG on Big Data

  3. Action Plan Themes

  4. Wikipedia as a big data sourceInsights about world heritage from the analysis of Wikipedia use

  5. World Heritage Sites • Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage • List of World Heritage Sites maintained by UNESCO http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-statistical-books/-/KS-04-15-737

  6. Wikipedia • Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopaedia widely used by people all over the world. • According to the Community survey on ICT usage by individuals and households, in 2013, 44% of individuals with 16 to 74 years old living in EU "consulted wikis to obtain knowledge (e.g. Wikipedia)". • This was 69% for individuals between 16 and 24 years old.

  7. Wikipedia • People leave digital traces of their interactions with Wikipedia in several forms: • Contributed content (text and links) • History of editions of articles (when and what type of editions) • Discussions (each article has a discussion page) • History of access to the articles • Use of the search function

  8. Nature of the data • The Wikimedia Foundation releases data on the number of page views on each individual article • Hourly count • Includes many languages (295 currently) • No geo-information • Available real time

  9. Wikipedia page views raw data • Example: zu.zUlimi 8 AE1,LN2O1Q1,AX1,FB2, • [wiki code][article title][monthly total][hourly counts] • Monthly files • From Jan 2012 to Oct 2015 • Total: 935 GB

  10. Top 20 World Heritage Sites in number of page views of related Wikipedia articles Reference: Jan.2012 – Oct.2015 31 languages

  11. Distribution of page views of articles related to World Heritage Sites by language of Wikipedia en de fr ru it pt nl tr es pl Reference: Jan.2012 – Oct.2015 31 languages

  12. Page views of Wikipedia articles related to World Heritage Sites 45M 40M 35M 30M 25M 20M 15M 10M 5M Reference: Jan.2012 – Oct.2015 31 languages 0M Mar 2012 Jul 2012 Nov 2012 Mar 2013 Jul 2013 Nov 2013 Mar 2014 Jul 2014 Nov 2014 Mar 2015 Jul 2015

  13. Top 5 WHS in number of page views of related Wikipedia articles by language Spanish English German French Reference: Jan.2012 – Oct.2015 31 languages

  14. Average number of page views according to the date of inscription Reference: Jan.2012 – Oct.2015 31 languages

  15. Wikidata as a data source

  16. Wikidata • Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base • Can be read and edited by both humans and • Sister project of Wikipedia • Not always as complete as Wikipedia • Semantic queries possible https://query.wikidata.org/

  17. Wikidata for tourism statistics • http://serenasignorelli.altervista.org/Barcelona_categories_map/Barcelona_categories_map.html • http://serenasignorelli.altervista.org/Bruges_categories_map/Bruges_categories_map.html • http://serenasignorelli.altervista.org/Vienna_categories/Vienna_categories.html • http://serenasignorelli.altervista.org/Three_cities_categories_map/Three_cities_categories_map.html

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