@inproceedings{vestel-degaetano-ortlieb-2026-modeling-linguistic,
    title = "Modeling Linguistic Imprints of War Propaganda in a {R}ussian {W}ikipedia Fork: A Comparative Analysis with the Original {W}ikipedia",
    author = "Vestel, Anastasiia  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania",
    editor = "Alves, Diego  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri  and
      Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania  and
      Kazantseva, Anna  and
      Pagel, Janis  and
      Szpakowicz, Stan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature 2026",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.latechclfl-1.20/",
    pages = "212--220",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-373-9",
    abstract = "Although Wikipedia aspires to provide neutral information, alternative versions can be used for political manipulation. This paper analyzes how narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War are linguistically reframed in a Russian Wikipedia Fork compared to the original Russian Wikipedia. Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence on a corpus of war-related edits in more than 13,000 articles, we identify key differences between the two versions. While the original Wikipedia features Ukrainian references and administrative details, direct war terminology, and Ukraine{'}s territorial designation, governance, and statehood, RWFork replaces or removes these elements, emphasizing reassignment of Ukrainian territories to Russia, favoring euphemistic war language, renaming locations, and recognizing Russia-backed DPR and LPR. These patterns closely align RWFork with demobilizational strategies observed in pro-Kremlin media."
}