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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. "Steal"? by Bigbutt · · Score: 4, Informative

    This word is not the word you think it is.

    [John]

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    Shit better not happen!
  2. Mirror of Sorts by VE3OGG · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am not sure if this is where the article originates from (or vice versa), but here is another example of visualizing Wikipedia:

    http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/visual/projects/ chromogram.html

  3. Network Mirror of the site by mpieters · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror including the famed image

    --
    "The truth shall make ye fret" -- The Truth, Terry Pratchett