[HN Gopher] The Graph of Wikipedia [video]
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The Graph of Wikipedia [video]
Author : miohtama
Score : 48 points
Date : 2024-04-01 14:03 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| ProllyInfamous wrote:
| I've used my same wiki handle since 2003, and actually knew what
| the #1 linked-to article was/would be (don't want to spoil, but
| it's obvious if you're a frequent visitor to wikipedia).
|
| Half-way through OP's video reminded me of this really fun
| mapping utility, self-described: sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
| araes wrote:
| Thanks. I almost want to try this as a small project, just to
| add degrees of separation with no target.
|
| It would be nice to be able to put in single articles or words
| and see where they went to with 1,2,3... Or see what is
| 1,2,3... away and then jump over to those.
| ganzuul wrote:
| There are so many uncomfortable questions I want to ask from this
| data, like which editors contributed to two different language
| articles which disagree about the same historical event.
|
| Perhaps it is a good thing not have all data at our fingertips...
| hollerith wrote:
| This is mostly a shaggy-dog story.
| ketanmaheshwari wrote:
| What is the meaning of the phrase "shaggy-dog"?
| yorwba wrote:
| Wiktionary has got you covered:
| https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shaggy_dog_story#English
| KineticLensman wrote:
| Essentially a very long meandering joke that has all sorts of
| side-tracks and irrelevant bits before reaching the
| punchline. The British comedian Ronnie Corbett told these
| regularly on TV [0] in the 70s/80s.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Corbett#The_Two_Ronnies
| nsajko wrote:
| As usual for YT.
| klyrs wrote:
| May I humbly request the (graph theory) subgraph of this graph?
| friend_and_foe wrote:
| This is some very interesting network topology/graph theory work.
| Some really interesting information is demonstrated here.
|
| Also I'd like to commend the author on his choice of alternating
| call center hold music and synthwave. I found it to go really
| well with the video and the graphical representation.
| stevenjgarner wrote:
| > "this game is played by ignoring links in the references and
| see also sections of Articles so when I construct this the
| graph I also ignored links in these sections since these are
| not necessarily a part of the article" [8:22]
|
| Surely there are also some fascinating topologies amongst the
| references themselves?
| HMH wrote:
| Is there something similar for the editors instead of the
| articles of Wikipedia? I am sure it'd be interesting to see if
| one can identify communities.
| MilStdJunkie wrote:
| For all you folks who aren't ace programmer types, the Orange3[1]
| platform gives you a very miniaturized[2] ability to turn out
| these sorts of visualizations very rapidly. It's not the most
| stable thing in the world, but the node-based ML workflow
| designer is worth the price of admission all by itself.
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| [1] https://orangedatamining.com/
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| [2] The Wikipedia extension in Text limits each search result to
| 25 articles, so sucking all of Wikipedia is . . well, Orange text
| analytics crashes when I look at it sideways with a null
| character, so let's not think about what would happen.
| starkparker wrote:
| Ah, that Jon Bois aesthetic. Smooth jazz/pop instrumentals,
| Google Earth zooms, and "did I say X? I meant X+LARGENUM"
| reveals.
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