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April 21, 2024, 10:28 p.m. |

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qrank


Interesting and very niche project by Colin Dellow.


Wikidata has pages for huge numbers of concepts, people, places and things.


One of the many pieces of data they publish is QRank - "ranking Wikidata entities by aggregating page views on Wikipedia, Wikispecies, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and other Wikimedia projects". Every item gets a score and these scores can be used to answer questions like "which island nations get the most interest across Wikipedia" - potentially useful for things like deciding …

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