# Analysing Temporal Evolution of Interlingual Wikipedia Article Pairs

## TL;DR

This paper introduces MultiWiki, a web-based tool for analyzing how Wikipedia articles in different languages evolve over time, revealing differences, similarities, and propagation patterns across language editions.

## Contribution

The paper presents MultiWiki, a novel interface that visualizes temporal evolution and differences of interlingual Wikipedia articles for improved quality control.

## Key findings

- Enables visual comparison of article snapshots at specific time points
- Provides timeline-based overview of interlingual article similarity
- Facilitates analysis of information propagation across languages

## Abstract

Wikipedia articles representing an entity or a topic in different language editions evolve independently within the scope of the language-specific user communities. This can lead to different points of views reflected in the articles, as well as complementary and inconsistent information. An analysis of how the information is propagated across the Wikipedia language editions can provide important insights in the article evolution along the temporal and cultural dimensions and support quality control. To facilitate such analysis, we present MultiWiki - a novel web-based user interface that provides an overview of the similarities and differences across the article pairs originating from different language editions on a timeline. MultiWiki enables users to observe the changes in the interlingual article similarity over time and to perform a detailed visual comparison of the article snapshots at a particular time point.