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An Open Ranking of Wikipedia Pages

Posted by Soulskill on from the citation-needed dept.

vigna writes: The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli studi di Milano did it again: after creating the first open ranking of the World Wide Web they have put together the first entirely open ranking of Wikipedia, using Wikidata to categorize pages. The ranking is based on classic and easily explainable centrality measures or page views, and it is entirely open — all data (Wikipedia and Wikidata dumps) and all software used is publicly available. Just in case you wonder, the most important food is chocolate, the most important band are the Beatles and the most important idea is atheism.

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  1. John was right by oodaloop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Beatles really ARE more popular than Jesus.

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    1. Re:John was right by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Informative

      No they aren't. Among men only, only Obama, Napoleon, G.W. Bush, FDR, Reagan, Shakespeare, Hitler, Washington, Churchill, Lincoln, Aristotle, Columbus, Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, and Einstein are more popular than Jesus. Bob Dylan (21) would be the most popular musician, beating out both Michael Jackson (27) and Elvis (29). None of the Beatles are individually in the top 100 for men.

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    2. Re:John was right by Fire_Wraith · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, but the Beatles, much like Devastator or Voltron, are far greater and more powerful when combined than the sum of their individual parts.

    3. Re:John was right by jrumney · · Score: 2

      Rank by "Page views" rather than "Harmonic centrality" (whatever that means). John Lennon is at number 122 among humans, with Jesus trailing at 123. Biggest musician seems to be Ariana Grande at number 1 (only Robin Williams is bigger than her).

  2. Re: hmmm... by monkeyzoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I learned a new word...
    an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life.

  3. Re:Yet TV shows ... by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians[sic] then the spiritually minded Oprah ...

    [Kim Kartrashian] has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News.

    NSFW reference

    I remember back when I had no clue who she was. I thought people had started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 because I kept hearing them talk about the Cardassians. Sadly I had misheard. I do have to say I would watch a show about the Cardassians, especially if it featured Garak he was the best of the characters to come out of that show.

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  4. The word important is being used in a flawed sense by zkiwi34 · · Score: 2

    Do page views really reflect importance? I'd conclude that that proposition is bollocks.

    Classic case in point. No music video even comes close to Psy's "Gangnam Style" in views. But seriously, is it the most important music video? Hint, the answer is not even close.

    I'd even hazard that water is (just probably, slightly) more important than Chocolate, but it wouldn't even register on this measure.