This is the Repo for my code that is for my paper with Dr. Brian Keegan, "Cross-Language Evolution of Divergent Collective Memory Around the Arab Spring"
the last time this data was gathered was 06/19/25 the figures reflect this
Abstract: The Arab Spring was a historic set of protests beginning in 2011 that toppled governments and led to major conflicts. Collective memories of events like these can vary signifi- cantly across social contexts in response to political, cultural, and linguistic factors. While Wikipedia plays an important role in documenting both historic and current events, little attention has been given to how Wikipedia articles, created in the aftermath of major events, continue to evolve over years or decades. Using the archived content of Arab Spring-related topics across the Arabic and English Wikipedias between 2011 and 2024, we define and evaluate multilingual measures of event salience, deliberation, contextualization, and consolidation of collective memory surrounding the Arab Spring. Our findings about the temporal evolution of the Wikipedia articles’ content similarity across languages has implications for theorizing about online collective memory processes and evaluating linguistic models trained on these data.
Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10706