`  *  This social network analysis looks at the entire corpus of Wikipedia biographies (with data from English, Chinese, Japanese and German Wikipedias). The authors created several thousand networks (unfortunately, this short conference paper does not discuss precisely how) and used the PageRank algorithm to identify key individuals. The authors attempt to answer ``Who are the most important people of all times?`` Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals (the most prominent people, for the four Wikipedias, appear to be George W. B. Bush, Mao Zedong, Ikuhiko Hata and Adolf Hitler, respectively). The Eastern cultures seem to prioritize warriors and politicians; Western ones include more cultural (including religious) figures. Interesting findins concern globalizatin: ``While the English Wikipedia includes 80% non-English leaders among the top 50, just two non-Chinese made it into the top 50 of the Chinese Wikipedia... ``Japanese Wikipedia is slightly more balanced, with almost 40 percent non-Japanese leaders``. Findings for the German Wikipedia are not presented. Through the authors don't make that point, it seems that no women appear in the Top 10 lists presented. Overall, this seems like an interesting paper, through the brief form (two pages) means that many questions about methodology remain unanswered, and the presentation of findings, and analysis, are very curt. | `