Constructing a Common Ground: Analyzing the quality and usage of International Auxiliary Languages in Wikipedia

Marta Alet, Diego Saez-Trumper
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International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) are constructed languages designed to facilitate communication among speakers of different native languages while fostering equality, efficiency, and cross-cultural understanding. This study focuses on analyzing the editions of IALs on Wikipedia, including Simple English, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Volapuk, Interlingue, and Novial. We compare them with three natural languages: English, Spanish, and Catalan. Our aim is to establish a basis for the use of IALs in Wikipedia as well as showcase a new methodology for categorizing wikis. We found in total there are 1.3 million articles written in these languages and they gather 15.6 million monthly views. Although this is not a negligible amount of content, in comparison with large natural language projects there is still a big room for improvement. We concluded that IAL editions on Wikipedia are similar to other projects, behaving proportionally to their communities' size. Therefore, the key to their growth is augmenting the amount and quality of the content offered in these languages. To that end, we offer a set of statistics to understand and improve these projects, and we developed a webpage that displays our findings to foster knowledge sharing and facilitate the expansion of the IAL communities.
构建共同点:分析维基百科中国际辅助语言的质量和使用情况
国际辅助语言(International Auxiliary Languages,IALs)是一种建构语言,旨在促进不同母语使用者之间的交流,同时促进平等、效率和跨文化理解。本研究主要分析维基百科上的国际辅助语言版本,包括 SimpleEnglish、Esperanto、Ido、Interlingua、Volapuk、Interlingue 和 Novial。我们将它们与三种自然语言进行比较:英语、西班牙语和加泰罗尼亚语。我们的目的是为在维基百科中使用 IALs 奠定基础,并为维基分类提供一种新方法。我们发现,用这些语言撰写的文章共有 130 万篇,每月的浏览量为 1560 万次。虽然这些内容的数量不容忽视,但与大型自然语言项目相比,仍有很大的改进空间。我们的结论是,维基百科上的 IAL 版本与其他项目类似,其表现与其社区规模成正比。因此,其发展的关键在于提高这些语言所提供内容的数量和质量。为此,我们提供了一套统计数据来了解和改进这些项目,并开发了一个网页来展示我们的发现,以促进知识共享和推动 IAL 社区的扩展。
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