Analyzing and Visualizing Translation Patterns of Wikidata Properties

• Wikidata
  • Started in year 2012
  • is free, open, linked, structured, collaborative and multilingual knowledge base
  • From multi-(sub)domain multilingual Wikipedia sites to a single-domain multilingual website
  • Collaborative Multilingual Multi-domain Ontology development

1. WDProp:
   • Collaborative Multilingual Multi-domain Ontology development: is it possible to achieve a truly multilingual experience?
2. Goals:
   • Understanding Wikidata property proposal, creation and translation
   • Available templates and their usage
   • Providing real-time statistics to (multilingual) contributors

• WDProp
  • Get real-time translation statistics
  • Navigate supported languages, properties, datatypes, classes
  • Compare translation statistics
  • Find available properties for an entity
  • Uses Wikidata SPARQL endpoints and Mediawiki API
• URL
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdprop

• Related Works:
  • Multilinguality in Wikidata
  • Property label stability in Wikidata
  • Linguistic influence patterns in Wikipedia
  • Deletion patterns in Wikipedia

• Conclusion:
  • Wikidata properties form the foundation of Wikidata knowledge base
  • Though few in number (around 5200) compared to items (around 50 million), their creation and evolution needs to be fully understood
  • Recommendation for translation to contributors

References

1. Kaffee, L. A., Piscopo, A., Vougiouklis, P., Simperl, E., Carr, L., & Pintscher, L. (2017, August). A glimpse into Babel: an analysis of multilinguality in Wikidata. In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 14). ACM.
2. Müller-Birn, C., Karran, B., Lehmann, J., & Luczak-Rösch, M. (2015, August). Peer-production system or collaborative ontology engineering effort: What is Wikidata?. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (p. 20). ACM.
3. Pellissier Tanon, T., & Kaffee, L. A. (2018, April). Property label stability in Wikidata: evolution and convergence of schemas in collaborative knowledge bases. In Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 (pp. 1801-1803). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
4. Samoilenko, A., Karimi, F., Kunegis, J., Edler, D., & Strohmaier, M. (2015, June). Linguistic influence patterns within the global network of Wikipedia language editions. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (p. 54). ACM.
5. Samuel, J. (2017) Collaborative Approach to Developing a Multilingual Ontology: A Case Study of Wikidata. In : Research Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research. Springer, Cham, 2017. p. 167-172.
6. Samuel, J. (2018). Towards Understanding and Improving Multilingual Collaborative Ontology Development in Wikidata. In: WikiWorkshop 2018
7. Stefaner, M., Taraborelli, D., & Ciampaglia, G. L. (2011). Notabilia–Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia.

Thank you

Questions?