Wikipedia: Verlinkungen in einem Netz visualisiert

adumb hat es geschafft, die rund 195 Millionen internen Verlinkungen auf Wikipedia als großes verwobenes Netz darzustellen. Absoluter Big Data Pr0n! Man kann Wikipedia übrigens auch hören.

A deep dive into the network of Wikipedia and some of the the most interesting, bizarre, and unique articles on the website.

Technical details for nerds:
– Data is collected from Wikipedia dumps
– Graph is made with python-igraph
– Distributed Recursive Layout algorithm is used for the graph layout
– Leiden algorithm is used for community detection
– A valid article is any page in Wikipedia’s article namespace excluding redirect pages, disambiguation pages, and soft redirects
– A valid link is a link in an articles body. Links that appear in or after the „See Also“ section and links that appear as footnotes are not included since these are not really a part of the article’s body. Links in and after the „See Also“ section of pages are typically not used in Wikipedia races.

Quelle: „The Awesomer“