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Benno Hansen

Most important person on English-language wikipedia? Frank Sinatra | Technology | thegu... - 0 views

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wikipedia statistics algorithm history bias

shared by Benno Hansen on 29 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • "Our analysis shows that most important historical figures across Wikipedia language editions are born in western countries after the 17th century, and are male,"
  • PageRank says that a page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.
  • The most important person in the world comes out as Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist
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  • Since Linnaeus' life work was coming up with a system to classify organisms, and applying that system as widely as possible, he is linked to from a lot of pages, and important ones at that.
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