This approach - quantitative, present-biased - reveals not just lists but rankings, and because those rankings are so neat, orderly, and numeric, we can also compare the across cultures, which is what a group of researchers at the Barcelona Media Foundation has done.įirst place to start, who are the most linked-to people in the English Wikipedia? The top 10:ġ. Probably any list would include a smattering of American presidents, great rulers from kingdoms and empires of the past, and certainly a few religious leaders such as Jesus and Mohammed.īut another way to answer the question would be to plumb the connections of Wikipedia, a sort of global memory bank of significant people and events.
Narrative history would provide us with one set of answers. Who are the people at the center of history and our world today? What does the cast of actors look like, how do they connect, and how do the leads vary country to country, culture to culture?
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