This visualization shows the geography of source citations in the Arabic Wikipedia's articles about places. All URLs that appear in articles are considered sources, and their location is inferred using a novel geoprovenance inference algorithm. Click a specific country to drill down to articles about it.
For more information, refer to our paper:
Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Mark Graham, Os Keyes, and Brent Hecht. 2015. Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. Proceedings of CHI 2015. New York: ACM Press.
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| country | citations | % |
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| United States | 51,386 | 61.71% |
| Spain | 3,475 | 4.17% |
| United Kingdom | 3,300 | 3.96% |
| France | 2,218 | 2.66% |
| Iran | 1,861 | 2.23% |
| Italy | 1,486 | 1.78% |
| Canada | 988 | 1.19% |
| Egypt | 972 | 1.17% |
| Saudi Arabia | 899 | 1.08% |
| Germany | 889 | 1.07% |
| other | 15,799 | 18.97% |
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*Only includes sources in geo-tagged articles. Source countries are distributional estimates and not exact. See our paper for details.
| article | views | % |
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| داعش (ar) | 26,251 | 1.18% |
| باربادوس (ar) | 22,436 | 1.01% |
| أستراليا (ar) | 22,427 | 1.01% |
| مصر (ar) | 11,817 | 0.53% |
| الجزائر (ar) | 11,769 | 0.53% |
| السعودية (ar) | 11,044 | 0.50% |
| ألمانيا (ar) | 10,797 | 0.49% |
| الولايات المتحدة (ar) | 9,152 | 0.41% |
| ماليزيا (ar) | 9,134 | 0.41% |
| قناة السويس (ar) | 9,113 | 0.41% |
| other | 2,077,428 | 93.52% |
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*Views of articles over 168 randomly chosen hours (one week's worth) during the past year. Only includes in geo-tagged articles.
| source | citations | % |
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| census.gov | 14,640 | 20.70% |
| usgs.gov | 6,658 | 9.41% |
| theus50.com | 4,718 | 6.67% |
| ine.es | 1,925 | 2.72% |
| amar.org.ir | 1,709 | 2.42% |
| citytowninfo.com | 1,701 | 2.41% |
| google.com | 1,479 | 2.09% |
| bbc.co.uk | 1,046 | 1.48% |
| aljazeera.net | 643 | 0.91% |
| unesco.org | 533 | 0.75% |
| other | 35,668 | 50.44% |
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*Domains viewed less than 5 times not shown. Domains whose country is not inferred with high confidence not included. Only includes sources in geo-tagged articles.