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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. 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