Hi everybody,
Further to a short paper I recently wrote with some colleagues (
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2592528), I started working on Vis-à-Wik, a simple
online visual analytics tool for Wikipedia analysis.
Vis-à-Wik retrieves data from the MediaWiki Wikipedia API, and uses D3js to
visualize the links between Wikipedia articles as a network diagram. This
simple tool allows users to search for Wikipedia articles in a selected
language edition, and visualize the articles selected by the user as a set
of nodes, along with the related articles in a second language edition, and
the links and language-links between them.
The aim is facilitate mid-scale analysis of Wikipedia content — that is
somewhere between a single-page analysis (that editors do routinely) and
large-scale analyses (e.g., academic research projects).
Vis-à-Wik is available for testing at sdesabbata.github.io/vis-a-wik, while
the code is available on GitHub (
github.com/sdesabbata/vis-a-wik) under the
GPLv3 licence. This is not a collaborative visualization tool, and
currently implements only one of the visualization methods, but it is a
first step (hopefully) of a larger endeavour.
This is just an alpha release, and I really look forward to any comment,
feedback, or suggestion! :)
Cheers,
Stefano.
See also:
http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis-a-wik-a-visual-analytics-tool-for-wikipedia-ana…
http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/collaborative-visualizations-for-wikipedia/
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Dr. Stefano De Sabbata
Researcher
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
oii.ox.ac.uk/people/desabbata
Junior Research Fellow
Wolfson College
University of Oxford
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