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Wikipedia 'See Also' Section: Inter-Language Link Divergence
The page tracks a divergence ratio that compares the set of language links found in an article’s 'See Also' section with the set of inter‑language links attached to the same article’s main page. For each language pair, the ratio is the proportion of links that appear in one version’s 'See Also' but not the other’s, averaged over a large sample of articles.
Data are sourced from regular Wikipedia XML dumps. The 'See Also' markup is extracted, and the interlanguage link table is parsed to build language‑specific link sets. The divergence ratio is then calculated and aggregated to provide overall statistics.
This metric is interesting because it reveals where different language communities choose to highlight or omit related topics, exposing potential cultural or regional biases in how knowledge is interconnected across Wikipedia editions. It offers a novel structural view of cross‑lingual knowledge organisation that is not available from other aggregated sources.