Chris Davis and Igor Nikolic have visualized the grown of the wiki.tudelft.nl website since it’s inception in 2004 in a variety of ways and shared the results on the wiki.
After using the wiki in our daily work for several years, we realized that we really did not know what it looked like from a higher level. It was clear that clicking from page to page was a completely inadequate way to get a sense of the scale and shape of it. At the same time, in much of our work, we seek to use insights about Complex Systems Theory. By visualizing the wiki, we were able to vividly provide an educational example of a complex system that we were intimately familiar with, and that other university faculty and students could participate in.
The video, shown after the break, reveals a fascinating cellular growth structure as it evolves over time. In addition to that, tho, they have a simple chart of Number of edits per user, reinforcing the 90-9-1 theory, and an interesting coauthorship network.
