💬 Language & Media

Temporal Drift of Non-English Nouns in Wikipedia's 'List of...' Infoboxes

Tracking the changing presence of non-English nouns in Wikipedia's 'List of...' infoboxes over time.

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About this data

This page monitors the proportion and average count of non-English nouns appearing within the descriptive infoboxes of Wikipedia lists. We analyse publicly available Wikipedia data to identify patterns in how 'foreign' terms are incorporated into these summaries.

By observing these linguistic shifts, we gain insight into the subtle ways globalization and cultural exchange are reflected in everyday language on a prominent global platform. This is a unique metric, as no other analyses focus specifically on this type of linguistic integration within Wikipedia's structured data.

Why this isn't published anywhere else

While there is research on multilingual Wikipedia data and entity insertion, no existing sources directly track the temporal drift of non-English nouns specifically within Wikipedia's 'List of...' infoboxes.

Uniqueness score 0.70 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.