💬 Language & Media

Wikipedia Interlanguage Link Decay

Tracking broken interlanguage links on Wikipedia

Observations
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Tracking since
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About this data

This page measures the percentage of broken interlanguage links and the median time to fix them. Interlanguage links connect articles across different Wikipedia languages, enabling multilingual support. The numbers are calculated by analyzing Wikipedia's publicly available data, providing a unique insight into the health of its language communities. By monitoring interlanguage link decay, we can understand the vitality of Wikipedia's global reach and the effectiveness of its multilingual support.

Sources

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Why this isn't published anywhere else

While there are some existing sources that discuss interlanguage links and provide some metrics, none of them seem to specifically track and publish the decay rate of these links, making the proposed topic still relatively unique.

Uniqueness score 0.80 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.