Happy Birthday! Wikipedia Turns 10
3:30 pm
JESS3′s The State of Wikipedia
4:10 pm
To celebrate the 10th birthday of everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia, JESS3 was brought in to create a short infographic video narrated by Jimmy Wales himself on the creation and growth of the site.
The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it’s also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.
The fourth video in our the “State of” series, JESS3 is proud to release The State of Wikipedia as our first video of 2011. And, as if it weren’t good enough, the video features none other than one of the co-founders himself, Jimmy Wales, as the narrator.
Notabilia: Visualizing Wikipedia’s Keep vs Delete
7:59 am
The Editing and Deletion procedures at Wikipedia get a lot of attention these days, and a new visualization called ‘Notabilia’ shines a light specifically on the latter. Mapping the choices between ‘keep’ and ‘delete’ amongst the editors, it creates an interesting tree-style visualization.
The online visualization visualizes 100 Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions that took the longest amount of time. A discussion is represented by a thread starting at the bottom center. Each time a user joins an AfD discussion and recommends to ‘keep’, ‘merge’, or ‘redirect’ the article a green segment leaning towards the left is added. Each time a user recommends to ‘delete’ the article a red segment leaning towards the right is added. As the discussion progresses, the length of the segments as well as the angle slowly decay.
eyePlorer: Explore and Process Search Knowledge from Wikipedia
8:30 am
Looks like today is a Wikipedia-vis day as Infosthetics talks about “eyePlorer“, another interactive visualization tool for Wikipedia.
Keywords related to a user-chosen topic are placed in a circle, which once selected, reveals the nature of the relationship. The granularity of these keywords can be tweaked by a zoom slider at the bottom, and double-clicking a keyword reveals the relationships with its neighbors by connecting lines.
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The colors within the circle denote different categories such as people, countries or organizations. Categories can be removed by dragging them outside of the screen, or further refined by clicking on an empty zone within them.
via eyePlorer: Explore and Process Search Knowledge from Wikipedia – information aesthetics.
Visualizing Wikipedia with Wikipedia Roll
8:00 am
If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information containing within the Hitchiker’s Gui-, I mean WikiPedia, then you might want to check out “wikipedia-roll”, an interesting visualization of all the topics and headings within a page. It gives you fully interactive access to the structure of the pages, with inlinks and outlinks, and all the content preserved (albeit a bit mangled at times).
Wikipedia Roll – Le Garage – Betaexplore – Flow visualization.
Graphing What is Popular on Wikipedia with WikiRank
5:48 am
Infosthetics tipped me off to a site called “WikiRank”, which creates embeddable javascript widgets that show sparklines and graph for page popularity, comparing up to 4 terms in a single chart.
WikiRank [wikirank.com] shows a series of sparklines to denote those Wikipedia articles that are the most read, and those pages that are gaining in popularity. In addition, one can explore each article’s detail page via search, which includes an article excerpt, traffic numbers and a web-embeddable traffic chart that compares the relative popularity of up to 4 other topics.
Click inside to see a chart I created comparing the popularity of 3ds Max, Maya, ParaView, and VisIt.
via Infosthetics
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