Wikipedia ranking of world universities

Abstract

Abstract. We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities using the mathematical statistical analysis independent of cultural preferences. The Wikipedia ranking of top 100 universities provides about 60 percent overlap with the Shanghai university ranking demonstrating the reliable features of this approach. At the same time WRWU incorporates all knowledge accumulated at 24 Wikipedia editions giving stronger highlights for historically important universities leading to a different estimation of efficiency of world countries in university education. The historical development of university ranking is analyzed during ten centuries of their history.

World influence and interactions of universities from Wikipedia networks

“…Already, the presence of many ranking systems indicates the presence of bias in each of above ranking systems. a email address: celestin.coquide@utinam.cnrs.fr b email address: jose.lages@utinam.cnrs.fr c email address: dima@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr Another purely mathematical and statistical approach to ranking of world universities has been developed in [12,13,14] on the basis of Google matrix analysis of Wikipedia networks. For each Wikipedia language edition a network is composed by all Wikipedia articles with directed links between them generated by mutual quotations of a given article to other articles.…”

“…In [12] the analysis was performed only for English Wikipedia (ENWIKI) of year 2009, other years for ENWIKI were considered in [13], while in [14] this analysis was done with 24 language Wikipedia editions of 2013 that allowed to reduce significantly cultural bias (these 24 networks had been collected and analyzed for historical figures in [15] in the frame of EC FET Open project NADINE [16]). The Google matrix analysis [12,13,14] is based on the PageRank algorithm [17] which detailed description is given in [18]. Some additional characteristics have been also used for description of network nodes (Wikipedia articles), like CheiRank and 2DRank, as described in [19,20].…”

“…In this work we extend the WRWU studies started in [14]. The new elements are: we use 24 Wikipedia edi-tions collected in May 2017 [25] and also we apply the recently invented reduced Google matrix (REGOMAX) method [26].…”

Wikipedia access and contribution: Language choice in multilingual communities . A case study

“…The agenda of the institutions promoting the use of Wikipedia and how this might either align or collide with Wikipedia's goals has also been discussed in the literature (Hale, 2015;Lages et al, 2016;Miquel-Ribé and Laniado, 2016). In our case, there was a synergy between Amical Wikimedia and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.…”

“…In the design of the academic task, the teacher can incorporate the coverage of local or universal themes, or the need to address certain topics in which the local edition of Wikipedia needs to grow. The debate on the role of institutions in promoting Wikipedia can bring to light certain agendas, both ideological and cultural, which might or might not collide with Wikipedia's neutrality and with the institution's own promotion and international visibility (Hale, 2015;Lages et al, 2016;Miquel-Ribé and Laniado, 2016).…”