AI 中文总结
本研究分析158场战争的20种维基百科语言版本，发现涉及自身社群的战争描述存在系统性差异，不涉及时则高度相似，揭示语言社群塑造维基百科战争叙事。
AI 中文摘要
尽管维基百科倡导对历史冲突持中立观点，但其语言版本由来自不同语言和文化社群的编辑撰写。本研究分析了1900年以来的158场战争，以考察维基百科20种语言版本中战斗人员的描述存在何种差异。使用 connotation frames（内涵框架，用于评估实体的权力、能动性与情感），我们研究每种语言如何描绘冲突相关各方。我们发现，当语言版本描述涉及自身社群的战争时，会存在系统性差异，不过这种不对称的方向因语言而异；而当语言版本描述不涉及自身语言社群的冲突时，其叙事结构呈现出高度的跨语言相似性。这些发现表明语言社群会影响维基百科上的战争叙事，揭示出共同的历史叙述仍受创作它们的语言社群视角的塑造。
英文摘要
While Wikipedia promotes a neutral point of view on historical conflicts, its language editions are written by editors from distinct linguistic and cultural communities. In this study, we analyze 158 wars since 1900 to examine how the descriptions of combatants vary across 20 Wikipedia language editions. Using connotation frames---which assess power, agency, and sentiment toward an entity---we examine how each language portrays the parties involved in the conflict. We find systematic differences when language editions describe wars involving their own communities, although the direction of these asymmetries varies across languages. However, when language editions describe conflicts that do not involve their own linguistic communities, their narrative structures exhibit high cross-linguistic similarity. These findings show how linguistic communities influence war narratives on Wikipedia, revealing that shared historical accounts remain shaped by the perspectives of the language communities that produce them.
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