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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.

18 of 34 comments (clear)

  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 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. :-)

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

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

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

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

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

      Mod point, if I had one.

      --
      Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
  4. Re:#NeverWikipedia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

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

  5. 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"
  6. 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.
  7. Data is beautiful by TheHawke · · Score: 1

    /r/dataisbeautiful

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    First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
  8. 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.