Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ban-everything-and-let-wales-sort-em-out dept.

todd450 pointed us to a nifty visualization of Wikipedia and controversial articles in it. The image started with a network of 650,000 articles color coded to indicate activity. The original image is apparently 5' square, but the sample image they have is still pretty neat.

10 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. Nice editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The original image is apparently 5' square, but the sample image they have is steal pretty neat.
    It's still pretty colorful.
  2. Yeeha! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny


    but the sample image they have is steal pretty neat.When did Speedy Gonzales get a job at OSTG?

    --
    Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
  3. LOL! by Kream · · Score: 3, Funny

    /windowslivewritervisualizingthepowerstruggleinwik ipedia-f7c7wikivisenlargesection44.jpg

    Service Temporarily Unavailable
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
    Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.abeautifulwww.com Port 80
    1. Re:LOL! by Thwomp · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yee-hah! We've got ourselves an old-fashioned slashdotting. I ain't see one of those in nigh-on thirty stories.

  4. Re:Another one bites the dust... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you been stealing their bandwidth?

  5. Today on /. by faloi · · Score: 3, Funny

    We axe y we dont juzt speel foneticly!

    --
    "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
  6. Similar effort by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last year, I did a similar indepth analysis of Wikipedia, generating a map describing the major components of the project with their interlinks:

    http://www.hallert.net/images/mapofwikipedia.GIF

  7. Oblig xkcd reference: by VE3OGG · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/c195.html -- Map of the Internets
    http://www.xkcd.com/c256.html -- Map of online communities

  8. Steal pretty neat by CmdrPorno · · Score: 2, Funny

    Despite the power struggles, Slashdot and Wikipedia are steal pretty cool websites. You can still content from them and put it up on your own blog.

    --
    Sent from my iPhone
  9. Re:Very Leftist by NevarMore · · Score: 2, Funny

    You sir are at least a libertarian.

    Have you thought about becoming a Libertarian? http://lp.org/