?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Feprints.imtlucca.it%2F2393%2F&rft.title=Interactions+of+cultures+and+top+people+of+Wikipedia+from+ranking+of+24+language+editions&rft.creator=Eom%2C+Young-Ho&rft.creator=Arag%C3%B3n%2C+Pablo&rft.creator=Laniado%2C+David&rft.creator=Kaltenbrunner%2C+Andreas&rft.creator=Vigna%2C+Sebastiano&rft.creator=Shepelyansky%2C+Dima+L.&rft.subject=HA+Statistics&rft.subject=QC+Physics&rft.subject=Z665+Library+Science.+Information+Science&rft.description=Wikipedia+is+a+huge+global+repository+of+human+knowledge%2C+that+can+be+leveraged+to+investigate+interwinements+between+cultures.+With+this+aim%2C+we+apply+methods+of+Markov+chains+and+Google+matrix%2C+for+the+analysis+of+the+hyperlink+networks+of+24+Wikipedia+language+editions%2C+and+rank+all+their+articles+by+PageRank%2C+2DRank+and+CheiRank+algorithms.+Using+automatic+extraction+of+people+names%2C+we+obtain+the+top+100+historical+figures%2C+for+each+edition+and+for+each+algorithm.+We+investigate+their+spatial%2C+temporal%2C+and+gender+distributions+in+dependence+of+their+cultural+origins.+Our+study+demonstrates+not+only+the+existence+of+skewness+with+local+figures%2C+mainly+recognized+only+in+their+own+cultures%2C+but+also+the+existence+of+global+historical+figures+appearing+in+a+large+number+of+editions.+By+determining+the+birth+time+and+place+of+these+persons%2C+we+perform+an+analysis+of+the+evolution+of+such+figures+through+35+centuries+of+human+history+for+each+language%2C+thus+recovering+interactions+and+entanglement+of+cultures+over+time.+We+also+obtain+the+distributions+of+historical+figures+over+world+countries%2C+highlighting+geographical+aspects+of+cross-cultural+links.+Considering+historical+figures+who+appear+in+multiple+editions+as+interactions+between+cultures%2C+we+construct+a+network+of+cultures+and+identify+the+most+influential+cultures+according+to+this+network.+&rft.publisher=ArXiv&rft.date=2014-11&rft.type=Working+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.identifier=++Eom%2C+Young-Ho+and+Arag%C3%B3n%2C+Pablo+and+Laniado%2C+David+and+Kaltenbrunner%2C+Andreas+and+Vigna%2C+Sebastiano+and+Shepelyansky%2C+Dima+L.++Interactions+of+cultures+and+top+people+of+Wikipedia+from+ranking+of+24+language+editions.++Working+Paper++%23+%2F2014++++ArXiv+++++++(Unpublished)+++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1405.7183