Table 1.
Overview of the main experiments. This shows the diseases and countries we studied with properties of each, as well a summary of each of the 19 contexts. Bold r2 indicates the high-performing contexts examined in more detail in the results section.
Country Total Wikipedia traffic from country [175] Language Country’s traffic in language [175] Total language traffic from country [174] Official data source |
Colombia 0.5% Spanish 89% 7.6% [75] |
Germany 7.5% German 75% 79% [74] |
Israel 0.5% Hebrew 54% 93% [111] |
United States 22% English 94% 42% [27] |
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Chlamydia | erratic |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.08![]() 4.0×103 |
0.11 Chlamydia infection 3.4 × 106 |
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Dengue fever | seasonal |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.91 Dengue 5.4 × 105 |
0.31 Denguefieber 4.0 × 103 |
0.07![]() 1.9×101 |
0.33 Dengue fever 3.1 × 103 |
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Influenza | seasonal |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.93 Influenza 2.3 × 105 |
0.77 Influenza 3.6 × 106 |
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Malaria | seasonal |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.71 Malaria 3.2 × 105 |
0.06![]() 6.0 × 102 |
0.24 Malaria 3.4 × 103 |
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Measles | erratic |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.40 Sarampión 9.2 × 103 |
0.46 Masern 2.5 × 104 |
0.46![]() 4.6× 102 |
0.49 Measles 6.5 × 102 |
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Pertussis | erratic |
max(r2) root article total cases |
0.59 Tos ferina 9.7 × 103 |
0.83 Keuchhusten 4.8 × 104 |
0.48![]() 1.2 × 104 |
0.48 Pertussis 5.3 × 104 |