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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.

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  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?

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  3. LOL! by Kream · · Score: 3, Funny

    /windowslivewritervisualizingthepowerstruggleinwik ipedia-f7c7wikivisenlargesection44.jpg

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

    We axe y we dont juzt speel foneticly!

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  5. 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

  6. 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