I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found
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2024-03-30に共有
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A deep dive into the network of Wikipedia and some of the the most interesting, bizarre, and unique articles on the website.
Music:
Beyond the Wall - Sugoi
How About Now? - Andreas Dahlbäck
First Horizon - ELFL
Neroli - Ennio Máno
Tree Tops - Autohacker
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.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Communities
4:07 Popular Articles
7:38 Orphans & Dead Ends
10:23 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
14:56 Longest Path on Wikipedia
17:06 FANTA CAKE
19:20 Outro
コメント (21)
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After many requests, the graph is now available as a poster at adumb.store/. A portion of proceeds from each sale will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Making a Wikipedia article about an orphan article creates a paradox where any orphan example given in the article automatically stops being an orphan
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Petition to run the code to make this graph yearly to see how it changes.
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Once when playing the wikipedia game in history class, the target article was "the French Revolution." We all had to start on a random page in order to demonstrate that essentially everything in the world is influenced heavily by the French Revolution. Some lucky duck's random article was "France"💀💀💀💀
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The colors, the tone of narration, the jazz. It makes it feel like an instructional/educational video from the late 90s to early 2000s. Something I would see in a slow school day. I love it.
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Another thing I’d like to point out is how 97% of all Wikipedia articles will end up in philosophy if you kept clicking on the first hyperlink
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Explaining overly complex charts over smooth jazz is my favorite YouTube genre.
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As a former Wikipedia editor, this is really cool to see! I regularly make use of the SpecialPages Orphaned, Deadend, Unconnected or Redirect to try and improve the linked data structure. I would really love seeing Wikipedia take this project as a source for more linked improvements!
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I can’t believe I watched a 20 minutes video about Wikipedia graphs to be finally be surprised with Fantakuchen as one of the most special articles. I just had Fantakuchen on Easter this year and it was one of my favorite birthday cakes all childhood long (next to Donauwelle, wave of the river Donau). Applause!
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I love how almost all dead-end articles you mentioned have no longer been dead-end just within a day of this video being uploaded.
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The fact that the "Fanta Cake" was noticeably edited during the making of the video is hilarious
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On the topic of degrees of separation and the longest paths. All we really need to do here is to add more links between articles and these numbers should decrease. People are already editing articles with the help of this video, and people are definitely interested in shortening these paths.
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I love the Internet! 14:25 The Acton family was immediately welcomed back into the wider Wikipedia community xD
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The algorithm is sleeping on this one update: The algorithm was sleeping on this one
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I want a CURSED wikipedia race as a prank. You host, you select at "random" but all of them are 10th degree separation OR HIGHER.
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you should absolutely render HD images of the graph, it's beautiful, 4k at least if not super high res
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A webpage that displays this graph live with an interactive UI would be a great tool for people who enjoy editing derelict or unfinished Wikipedia articles for fun!
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Dude you should seriously submit this graph as a series to a modern art museum!! I know it sounds strange, but it’s so unique, so visually interesting, and there are so many parts of it that reveal truths about society, politics, human behavior, etc. I know so many galleries that would just love to have this as a series!
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I like how someone fixed the Fanta Cake article but didn't bother to replace the sad sopping excuse of a fanta cake picture lmao
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Shout out to 'videos explaining complex topics with graphs and charts while smooth jazz plays in the background' Gotta be one of mi favorite genres
