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Wikiverse Turns Wikipedia Into a Marvelous Galaxy of Knowledge (thenextweb.com)

Posted by msmash on from the visual-delight dept.

An anonymous reader shares a The Next Web report: If recklessly clicking through hundreds of Wikipedia entries at a time no longer does it for you, Wikiverse is about to become your new favorite way of browsing the internet's richest encyclopedia. Built by Owen Cornec, it's a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visualizes the website as a cosmic web of information, literally turning it into a marvelous galaxy of knowledge you can conveniently explore with your mouse. To accomplish this, Wikiverse sources thousands of articles from Wikipedia and then generates a map where it showcases the countless connections and overlaps of information between each entry. In Wikiverse, each article appears as a star within larger domains and clusters of knowledge. To access any entry on Wikipedia, simply click on a star and Wikiverse will pull up the information for you.

34 comments

  1. Re:60 HOURS OF TRAINING FOR 95% OFF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    how can u pass on this kind of savings

    you didn't provide a link

    why dont you want sucess as sysadmin career

    those careers have been outsourced to third world shitholes

  2. It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2

    This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.

    1. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This isn't even Wikipedia, it's just some hacky chart someone is trying to get people to view.

    2. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It literally turns Wikipedia into a galaxy of knowledge? Is there a super-massive black-hole at the center of this actual galaxy as is claimed? How many light-years across is this actual galaxy? Is there life within this galaxy?

      I truly think the promo author does not know the true meaning of the word "literally" and instead meant to use "figuratively".

    3. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by timholman · · Score: 1

      This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.

      Having looked at the website, I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."

    4. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.

      Because I literally have nothing better to do,

      Built by Owen Cornec, it's a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visualizes the website as a cosmic web of information, literally turning it into a marvelous galaxy of knowledge you can conveniently explore with your mouse.

      1. It should be obvious to any reader with common sense that the "it" refers to the "web of information" mentioned previously. Not Wikipedia. Because it should be obvious to any reader that whatever Mr. Cornec has done is/was a derivative work and not an actual transformation of the Wikipedia website itself.
      2. Besides the most common definition, a "galaxy" can be "any large and brilliant or impressive assemblage of persons or things". I think Wikipedia's overwhemingly vast collection of knowledge certainly counts as such an assemblage.

      Therefore I reject your knee-jerk reaction to the author's admittedly trite usage of the term "literally", and wish that should the inclination to make such a statement arise again you might instead opt to shut the fuck up.

    5. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by bondsbw · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually, it literally turns Wikipedia into a figurative galaxy of knowledge.

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      All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
    6. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2

      I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."

      You realize that fsn was a real file system viewer from SGI - right?
      Clone available.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    7. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It does nothing but make Wikipedia look like an unnavigable mess.

    8. Re: It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Someone sounds salty as hell. I think the creator of this site is mad no one is giving him props. Fuck yo site nigga **Dave Chappell voice**

    9. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by timholman · · Score: 1

      You realize that fsn was a real file system viewer from SGI - right?

      So in other words, one bad interface leads to another?

      But thanks for the link ... I had no idea that someone at SGI actually created that mess. I thought it was some studio executive's twisted idea of what a computer GUI was supposed to look like. No wonder SGI went bankrupt. :-)

    10. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It does nothing but make Wikipedia look like an unnavigable mess.

      It reflects reality, then?

    11. Re: It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It literally does. Don't open it. It sucked my entire country into a black hole, but on the plus side, the Wikipedia geography pages were updated quickly on this fact, so B+

    12. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? by BoogieChile · · Score: 1

      Yes, it does. And that black hole is named "Philosophy"

  3. KnowledgeWeb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sounds a lot like James Burke's KnowledgeWeb idea from the 80's. Youtube overview.

  4. Cool idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...but UI is a mess. Points off for not allowing my mouse to rotate/pan the universe ball thingy, and I've always hated white text on a black background, which is what is displayed when you bring up an article.

    1. Re: Cool idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, the lack of mouse rotation reslly, really, really fucks me off. It's like this cocknuckle hasn't ever seen anything. What's the fucking point of the whole fucking thing if I can't rotate the view? Fucking basement gashlappers.

    2. Re:Cool idea by reboot246 · · Score: 1

      Even with improvements to the interface, it will still be more of a toy than a useful tool.

      Right now it's just fun to play with, but I can read super fast and I prefer text to graphics.

  5. #NeverWikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I will never forgive Wikipedia after they tried to make us in #GamerGate look like assholes. Wikipedia is all faggots, anyway.

    #FreeMilo

    1. Re:#NeverWikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yeah, you definitely need all the help you can get not looking like an asshole.

  6. Stupid Waste Of Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's better ways to pull random articles from Wikipedia than this waste of time.

    I especially dislike its use of dark gray text on a black background making it hipster compliant and completely unreadable at the same time.

  7. I must be too old for this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seriously? Wow. This is crap. A big, stinking, pile of crap.

    I mean, nice idea, but absolute crap.

    Give me a text based system over this malarkey of a GUI any day of any century...

    capcha: lifetime

  8. Dr. David Bowman by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    "My God, it's full of trolls!"

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    Table-ized A.I.
    1. Re:Dr. David Bowman by funwithBSD · · Score: 1

      Mod point, if I had one.

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      Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
    2. Re:Dr. David Bowman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm sorry, Dave. I lol'ed at that.

  9. Shit. by pruedz · · Score: 1

    Waving goodbye to my productivity today. Can we have one for TV Tropes?

    1. Re: Shit. by tacarat · · Score: 1

      And now we have our first schedule one electronic drug. Greaaaaaaat.

      --
      "Common sense will be the death of us all"
  10. 3 is not a Galaxy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "But the menu said "galaxy of prawns". Three prawns are hardly a galaxy!" - Gary Coleman

  11. Obligatory XKCD: Extened Mind by scorp1us · · Score: 1

    Read the alt text

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    Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
    1. Re:Obligatory XKCD: Extened Mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't believe I've been missing out on the alt text all this time. Bless you.

  12. Data is beautiful by TheHawke · · Score: 1

    /r/dataisbeautiful

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    First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
  13. JEW Knowledge. Wikipedia is Jew. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    use it sparingly. It only take a subtle plurality or subtle reverse (typo) of names to totally fuck off your facts.

    They do this. Cross reference any time it is important.

  14. Re:60 HOURS OF TRAINING FOR 95% OFF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Third world is a stereo-type, dick. They are called "least developed shitholes" now. ;)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Developed_Countries