Weltliteratur
World Literature According to Wikipedia
Nationalliteratur will jetzt nicht viel sagen, die Epoche der Weltliteratur ist an der Zeit, und jeder muß jetzt dazu wirken, diese Epoche zu beschleunigen. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in a conversation with Johann Peter Eckermann on January 31st, 1827.
Datasets
- top 25 writers for the top 15 Wikipedia language editions according to seven different ranking methods
- foreign-language writers that appear frequently among the top 25 writers of other language editions
- additional raw datasets (i.e., lists of writers that were identified by different approaches, a list of manually classified writers per language, a list of Nobel laureates in literature)
The data is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 
Publication
The preprint is already available and the final publication will follow soon.