Temporal Drift of Uncategorized Emoji in Wikipedia Infoboxes
Tracking how uncategorized emoji are appearing over time in Wikipedia infoboxes.
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About this data
This page tracks the emergence and changing prevalence of uncategorized emoji within Wikipedia's structured infobox data. Unlike sentiment analysis, which focuses on the meaning of emoji, our research looks at their very presence and how that presence evolves.
We analyse a vast corpus of Wikipedia infoboxes to quantify the proportion of emoji that do not fit into predefined categories, alongside the temporal density of these ambiguous symbols. This novel metric offers a unique lens into how emoji are being used for emphasis or in ways that deviate from established communication norms.
Understanding this drift is important because it highlights potential shifts in digital communication and the dynamic nature of emoji usage, offering a quantifiable measure of this evolving trend that is not currently being tracked elsewhere.
Why this isn't published anywhere else
While general emoji statistics and Wikipedia data are available, there is no readily discoverable source tracking the specific metric of temporal drift of *uncategorized* emoji within Wikipedia infoboxes.
Uniqueness score 0.90 — assessed against live web search results when this subject was created.