Analyzing Books Cited in English Wikipedia – Matt Miller – Medium
ab1630's bookmarks 2018-04-29
Summary:
"Citation data used on Wikipedia was recently released connecting the identifiers of source materials to the Wikipedia article using them as references:... I was curious about the type of books that were being used in the Wikipedia ecosystem. When were they published, what authors are prevalent/influential, what subjects were most common, etc. Using the citation data released and OCLC metadata APIs I gathered some stats about books cited in English Wikipedia articles. Numbers Citations were released for each Wikipedia language site. To make things scoped I just looked at the English (en) Wikipedia articles. There were still quite a lot of citations: 3.79 million citations 1.7 million ISBN citations (books) 684,965 unique ISBNs This means out of all the book citations on english Wikipedia there were 684K unique books referenced. I took these ISBNs and ran them through various APIs to gather metadata about each book. Year Published When were most of the books being cited published?..."