What We Wiki

Methodology

The article What we wiki is based on a statistical analysis of of all the pages of the English Wikipedia captured on 04/02/07, and available here.

The whole collection of Wikipedia pages is scanned by a computer program to find the ten most frequent words and ten most frequent double words appearing in each page. We refer to these words and double-words as concepts. Each concept is associated with a counter that records the number of wiki pages in which it appears. The 200 concepts with the highest page count is shown in the table below. United States with a count of 125449 indicates that this concept was one of the ten most frequent double-words in 125,499 pages. Note that United and States as individual words have different counts because they may not make the ten most frequent words of a wiki page while United States might.

Stop Words

The following stop words are filtered out before the statistics are collected:

a about above across after afterwards again against all almost
alone along already also although always am among amongst amoungst amount
an and another any anyhow anyone anything anyway anywhere are around as
at
back be became because become becomes becoming been before beforehand
behind being below beside besides between beyond bill both bottom but by
call can cannot can’t co computer con could couldn’t cry
de describe detail do done down due during
each eg eight either eleven else elsewhere empty enough etc even ever
every everyone everything everywhere except
few fifteen fify fill find fire first five for former formerly forty found four
from front full further
get give go
had has hasn’t have he hence her here hereafter hereby herein hereupon hers
herself him himself his how however hundred
i ie if in inc indeed interest into is it its itself
keep
last latter latterly least less like ltd
made many may me meanwhile might mill mine more moreover most mostly
move much must my myself
name namely neither never nevertheless next nine no nobody none noone
nor not nothing now nowhere
of off often on once one only onto or other others otherwise our ours
ourselves out over own
part per perhaps please put
rather re
s same see seem seemed seeming seems serious several she should
show side since sincere six sixty so some somehow someone something
sometime sometimes somewhere still such system
take ten than that the their them themselves then thence there
thereafter thereby therefore therein thereupon these they thick
thin third this those though three through throughout thru thus
to together too top toward towards twelve twenty two
un under until up upon us
very via
was we well were what whatever when whence whenever where
whereafter whereas whereby wherein whereupon wherever whether
which while whither who whoever whole whom whose why will with
within without would yet you your yours yourself yourselves

References and Bibliography

• Stacy Schiff, “Now It All, Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?”, The New Yorker, July 31, 2006.
• Martin Hepp, Daniel Bachlechner, and Katharina Siorpaes, “Harvesting Wiki Consensus - Using Wikipedia Entries as ontology Elements,” citeseer.ist.psu.edu/747700.html, 2006
• Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Portfolio, 2006
• Michael Stube, and Simone Paolo Ponzetto, “WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia,” in Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Mass., 16-20 July, 2006, pp. 1419-1424.

Word and Double-Word Ranking

The table below shows the ranking of the most popular words and double-words.
To search the actual database of concept, click here.

Rank	Word/Double-Word	Number of Pages
1	United States	125449
2	2	109068
3	1	103454
4	Talk	98000
5	New	92490
6	2005	83569
7	Album	73300
8	0	70149
9	3	67870
10	Film	61778
11	City	58813
12	New York	55902
13	Band	51047
14	Image	50318
15	4	49927
16	School	49450
17	County	49241
18	United	48213
19	Style	46666
20	Music	46057
21	University	42003
22	Age	41681
23	Census	41586
24	States	40602
25	5	40533
26	American	39945
27	Football	39527
28	18	37817
29	2007	36347
30	Game	35928
31	2004	35882
32	State	34716
33	Median Income	34643
34	Series	33914
35	Party	33433
36	District	33239
37	Town	31940
38	Population	31791
39	National	31764
40	South	30626
41	User	30547
42	World	30153
43	Company	29519
44	Team	29233
45	Song	29051
46	John	28856
47	Station	28547
48	Area	28523
49	War	27221
50	6	27143
51	Language	26807
52	States Census	26458
53	British	26081
54	Debate	25157
55	Background	24987
56	High School	24678
57	List	24555
58	Book	24293
59	Width	24010
60	North	23614
61	River	23500
62	League	23425
63	High	23382
64	7	23276
65	College	23259
66	York	22873
67	Fair Use	22685
68	World War	21895
69	Left	21819
70	Fair	21744
71	Australia	21593
72	Village	21553
73	Church	21445
74	Club	20324
75	Group	20061
76	2003	20014
77	Born	20011
78	January	20006
79	August	19547
80	Episode	19495
81	English	19464
82	March	19461
83	December	19458
84	Time	19415
85	8	19252
86	King	19222
87	2007 Utc	19187
88	House	19171
89	California	19147
90	People	19094
91	Class	19015
92	United Kingdom	18829
93	General	18627
94	0	18270
95	Family	18132
96	10	18087
97	Century	18068
98	Canada	17889
99	Season	17848
100	2002	17768
101	Island	17585
102	Park	17584
103	Election	17385
104	India	17377
105	Copyright	17321
106	Age 18	17224
107	July	17200
108	65 Years	17101
109	2000	17075
110	Live	17042
111	Line	17034
112	2001	16904
113	February	16900
114	9	16806
115	Air	16334
116	October	16169
117	Government	15977
118	French	15864
119	Known	15729
120	East	15574
121	Television	15552
122	Com	15443
123	West	15420
124	Text	15399
125	Art	15368
126	London	15350
127	Black	15315
128	F	15314
129	September	15169
130	Radio	15164
131	Border	15127
132	Tv	15055
133	France	15020
134	November	14952
135	International	14885
136	Army	14857
137	April	14634
138	D	14438
139	Nbsp	14313
140	Isbn 0	14216
141	Australian	14192
142	Color	14180
143	Articles	14120
144	German	14040
145	African American	14026
146	Font	13918
147	B	13902
148	Right	13900
149	Appropriate	13777
150	Award	13755
151	La	13728
152	History	13666
153	Character	13574
154	England	13540
155	Games	13463
156	Railway	13459
157	St	13426
158	Day	13364
159	Life	13354
160	Battle	13347
161	New Zealand	13225
162	Released	13133
163	12	13090
164	Best	13059
165	Road	13047
166	Guitar	13020
167	President	13019
168	Player	13017
169	Tv Series	13002
170	Played	12960
171	Species	12876
172	Law	12800
173	Work	12772
174	Japan	12694
175	Size	12669
176	1999	12515
177	Ii	12405
178	June	12336
179	11	12321
180	Rock	12236
181	American U	12218
182	Lake	12038
183	Single	11944
184	Cup	11908
185	Wikipedia	11904
186	20	11766
187	San	11721
188	Year	11680
189	Los Angeles	11619
190	Building	11544
191	Community	11495
192	Comments	11422
193	Uk	11341
194	Notable	11338
195	Built	11322
196	Canadian	11301
197	Route	11199
198	Www	11143
199	Township	11072
200	Located	11059
201	Students	11028
202	Public	10978
203	100 Females	9966
204	Prime Minister	9132
205	New Jersey	9113
206	2004 Utc	8431
207	General Election	8317
208	War Ii	8274
209	Jul-06	8161
210	South Wales	7920
211	Aug-06	7865
212	Summer Olympics	7708
213	Jan-07	7686
214	San Francisco	7565
215	Sep-06	7477
216	Jan-06	7390
217	Jun-06	7374
218	Mar-07	7345
219	New South	7307
220	National Football	7249
221	World Cup	7223
222	Football Team	7190
223	Feb-07	7180
224	Dec-05	7172
225	Dec-06	7145
226	Railway Station	7131
227	Oct-06	7069
228	North Carolina	7027
229	Civil War	6954
230	Nov-06	6862
231	South Africa	6594
232	Democratic Party	6160
233	Air Force	6156
234	Hong Kong	6132
235	Mar-06	5917
236	Apr-06	5853
237	Race United	5804
238	Feb-06	5704
239	0 0	5598
240	State University	5594
241	Video Game	5587
242	Supreme Court	5514
243	British Columbia	5030
244	Style Color	4988
245	Hip Hop	4861
246	University Press	4818
247	Major League	4814
248	Science Fiction	4612
249	World Championship	4611
250	Parliament Constituency	4605
251	Football League	4544
252	Roman Catholic	4432
253	Jul-05	4413
254	Soviet Union	4362
255	Labour Party	4213
256	Western Australia	4191
257	Liberal Party	4123
258	Conservative Party	4109
259	Native American	3878
260	San Diego	3829
261	North America	3722
262	Star Trek	3670
263	Northern Ireland	3613
264	School District	3609
265	National Park	3508
266	Grand Prix	3435
267	Republican Party	3418
268	State Route	3398
269	Vice President	3372
270	League Baseball	3288

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