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A suggestion: "Most culturally prominent" works better than "most influential" The only thing Wikipedia is going to tell you is how many other Wikipedia authors
by DanielBMarkham 13y ago
A suggestion: "Most culturally prominent" works better than "most influential" The only thing Wikipedia is going to tell you is how many other Wikipedia authors cite something. A movie can have terrific influence globally but in an indirect manner, influencing a generation of writers and directors, for instance. Likewise it could have influenced a lot of people, just not people who have anything to do with Wikipedia. Wikipedia is more like a popularity contest. "Birth of a Nation", for instance, had a huge impact all across North America -- but nobody is around anymore to cite it, so it's mostly lost to time.
I see you've changed the title. Cool.
Nice work!
- cosbynator 13y agoYou definitely aren't wrong, but it is worth noting that the PageRank is calculated based on all wikipedia articles, and not just those of movies (so influence into other areas will hopefully bubble up). "Birth of a Nation" actually does show up quite prominently for the pre 1930s era.
- _delirium 13y ago"Birth of a Nation", for instance, had a huge impact all across North America -- but nobody is around anymore to cite it That's an odd choice of counterexample, since it ranks pretty highly in this list, so apparently is actually cited a lot on Wikipedia. It's the "most influential" pick for 1915 in the year-by-year list (http://blog.argteam.com/coding/a-history-of-film-in-wikipedia/ http://blog.argteam.com/coding/a-history-of-film-in-wikipedi...), and is #16 of all time in the all-time list (http://blog.argteam.com/golang/the-top-25-movies-of-all-time-chosen-by-an-algorithm/ http://blog.argteam.com/golang/the-top-25-movies-of-all-time...).