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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.

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  1. 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 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.
    2. 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.

      --
      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  2. Dr. David Bowman by Tablizer · · Score: 2

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

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    Table-ized A.I.