Table 1.
Wikipedia hyperlink networks from the 24 considered language editions.
Here Na is the number of articles. Wikipedia data were collected in middle February 2013.
Table 2.
List of top persons by PageRank and 2DRank for the English Wikipedia.
All names are represented by article titles in the English Wikipedia.
Table 3.
List of country code (CC), countries as birth places of historical figures, and language code (LC) for each country.
LC is determined by the most spoken language in the given country. Country codes are based on country codes of Internet top-level domains and language codes are based on language edition codes of Wikipedia; WR represents all languages other than the considered 24 languages.
Fig 1.
Birth place distribution of top historical figures averaged over 24 Wikipedia edition for (A) PageRank historical figures (71 countries) and (B) 2DRank historical figures (91 countries).
Two letter country codes are represented in Table 3.
Fig 2.
Sum of appearances of historical figures from a given country in the 24 lists of top 100 persons for PageRank (top panel) and 2DRank (bottom panel).
Color changes from zero (white) to maximum (black). Maximal values are 233 appearances for Germany (top) and 236 for USA (bottom). Values are proportional to the averages per country shown in Fig. 1.
Fig 3.
Birth place distributions over countries of top historical figures from each Wikipedia edition; two letter country codes are represented in Table 3.
Panels: (A) distributions of PageRank historical figures over 71 countries for each Wikipedia edition; (B) distributions of 2DRank historical figures over 91 countries for each Wikipedia edition; (C) column normalized birth place distributions of PageRank historical figures of panel (A); (D) column normalized birth place distributions of 2DRank historical figures of panel (B).
Fig 4.
Birth date distributions of top historical figures.
(A) Birth date distribution of PageRank historical figures averaged over 24 Wikipedia editions (B) Birth date distribution of 2DRank historical figures averaged over 24 Wikipedia editions (C) Birth date distributions of PageRank historical figures for each Wikipedia edition. (D) Birth date distributions of 2DRank historical figures for each Wikipedia edition. (E) Column normalized birth date distributions of PageRank historical figures for each Wikipedia edition. (F) Column normalized birth date distributions of 2DRank historical figures for each Wikipedia edition.
Fig 5.
The locality property of cultures represented by the ratio rL, C = ML, C/NL, C for each edition L and each century C.
Here ML, C is the number of historical figures born in countries attributed to a given language edition L at century C and NL, C is the total number of historical figures in a given edition at a given century, regardless of language of their birth countries. Black color (-0.2 in the color bars) shows that there is no historical figure at all for a given edition and century; blue (0 in the color bars) shows there there are some historical figures but no same language historical figures. Here (A) panel shows PageRank historical figures, and (B) panel shows 2DRank historical figures.
Fig 6.
Number of females of top historical figures from each Wikipedia edition (A) Top PageRank historical figures (B) Top 2DRank historical figures.
(C) The average female ratio of historical figures in given centuries across 24 Wikipedia editions.
Table 4.
List of global historical figures by PageRank and 2DRank for all 24 Wikipedia editions.
All names are represented by the corresponding article titles in the English Wikipedia. Here, ΘA is the ranking score of algorithm A (3); NA is the number of appearances of a given person in the top 100 rank for all editions.
Fig 7.
The distribution of 1045 top PageRank persons (A) and 1616 top 2DRank persons (B) as a function of number of appearances NA of a given person and the rank ⟨K⟩ of this person averaged over Wikipedia editions where this person appeared.
Table 5.
List of the top 10 global female historical figures by PageRank and 2DRank for all the 24 Wikipedia editions.
All names are represented by article titles in the English Wikipedia. Here, ΘA is the ranking score of the algorithm A (Eq.3); NA is the number of appearances of a given person in the top 100 rank for all editions. Here CC is the birth country code and LC is the language code of the given historical figure.
Table 6.
Numbers of certain historical figures for top 100 list of each language: N1 is the number of historical figures of a given language among the top 100 PageRank global historical figures; N2 is the number of historical figures of a given language among the top 100 PageRank historical figures for the given language edition; N3 is the number of historical figures of a given language among the top 100 2DRank global historical figures; N4 is the number of historical figures of a given language among the top 100 2DRank historical figures for the given language edition.
Fig 8.
Network of cultures obtained from 24 Wikipedia languages and the remaining world (WR) consider (A) top PageRank historical figures and (B) 2DRank historical figures.
The link width and darkness are proportional to a number of foreign historical figures quoted in top 100 of a given culture, the link direction goes from a given culture to cultures of quoted foreign historical figures, links inside cultures are not considered. The size of nodes is proportional to their PageRank.
Fig 9.
Google matrix of network of cultures shown in Fig. 8 respectively.
The matrix elements Gij are shown by color with damping factor α = 0.85.
Fig 10.
PageRank ranking versus CheiRank ranking plane of cultures with corresponding indexes K and K* obtained from the network of cultures based on (A) all PageRank historical figures, (B) all 2DRank historical figures, (C) PageRank historical figure born before AD 19th century, and (D) 2DRank historical figure born before AD 19th century, respectively.