This visualization shows the geography of source citations in the Chinese 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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| China | 80,933 | 42.47% |
| United States | 34,498 | 18.10% |
| France | 14,802 | 7.77% |
| Taiwan | 8,013 | 4.21% |
| United Kingdom | 7,577 | 3.98% |
| Japan | 7,323 | 3.84% |
| Hong Kong | 4,668 | 2.45% |
| Germany | 3,500 | 1.84% |
| Canada | 3,216 | 1.69% |
| Australia | 2,760 | 1.45% |
| other | 23,255 | 12.20% |
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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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| 中國 (zh) | 50,776 | 0.85% |
| 中华人民共和国 (zh) | 41,655 | 0.70% |
| 美国 (zh) | 31,392 | 0.53% |
| 日本 (zh) | 28,580 | 0.48% |
| 臺灣 (zh) | 28,049 | 0.47% |
| 中華民國 (zh) | 26,562 | 0.45% |
| 六四事件 (zh) | 24,361 | 0.41% |
| 香港 (zh) | 23,758 | 0.40% |
| 伊斯兰国 (zh) | 18,715 | 0.31% |
| 英国 (zh) | 17,623 | 0.30% |
| other | 5,666,195 | 95.11% |
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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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| stats.gov.cn | 60,795 | 36.13% |
| insee.fr | 11,080 | 6.59% |
| usgs.gov | 3,687 | 2.19% |
| census.gov | 1,672 | 0.99% |
| google.com | 1,664 | 0.99% |
| aad.gov.au | 1,362 | 0.81% |
| xinhuanet.com | 1,290 | 0.77% |
| bbc.co.uk | 1,162 | 0.69% |
| unesco.org | 1,143 | 0.68% |
| sina.com.cn | 1,036 | 0.62% |
| other | 83,358 | 49.54% |
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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.