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This would be an amazing demonstration of cultural relativism. You used the "en.wikipedia.org" site for the source. Good. Now put a loop around the whole thi
by yeahyeahyeah 14y ago
This would be an amazing demonstration of cultural relativism.
You used the "en.wikipedia.org" site for the source. Good. Now put a loop around the whole thing, and after you're done making the English-"history-of ____" map (which you have just done), repeat with the French - "history of___ map", and so forth for every language that has entries (some may be blank for some countries).
Next, you can take your 40-80 or whatever maps (whichever languages you decided to complete this for), and translate them via automated translation into English.
So, we get "the different language Wikipedia's different views of the world", with English (untranslated) being only the first source, and additional sources both native and translated directly into English.
For example, while for Russia, "soviet" won out from the English-language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia
going from http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%... (by clicking "Russian" on the interwiki link on the left) I would be interested in what the most common word is on THAT page :).
This would be an awesome example of cultural relativism.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoJust did that. The most common word with a meaning seems to be СССР (USSR) the next one (barring country name) is война (war). No surprises here. In case of Russian language doing it properly is noticeably harder because Russian is an inflected language.