ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on different-language Wikipedias to provide a mirror of historical understanding of world history through different cultures to measure differences in gender equality, track emotionality and positive sentiment in different-language news. It analyses whether war and conquest or science and art are considered more important in different cultures. The chapter introduces Wikihistory, a dynamic temporal map of the most influential people of all times in four different Wikipedias and looks at gender distribution in the English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German Wikipedias among people considered noteworthy, resulting in a comparison among cultures on the subject of gender equality. It aims to compare sentiment and emotionality of news articles in the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German Wikinews, a hand-curated news page that is part of Wikipedia. While the German, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedias are more or less representative of their language spaces, things are more complex for the English, Chinese, and Spanish Wikipedias.
