[WikiEN-l] I want to do an analysis of wikipedia

[Sylvan Arevalo]

I want to do an analysis of wikipedia

I don't know what has been done before and I was hoping to get
feedback as to what has been done before.

what I want to do:

Each page on wikipedia would be treated as a hyperlink, which would be
treated as an object, and put on a grid.

an arrow would be drawn between two hyperlinks if one referenced the other.

The hyperlinks would be organized such that there would be the
smallest amount of arrow line length between hyperlinks.
(I figure that this would give a crude way of organizing how the pages
connected to each other)

The power of representing pages as hyperlinks and organizing them as
objects on a grid is that you can then get a sense of what an idea
means by how it relates to other ideas.
I figure more important ideas would go towards the center.

You could also search for new ideas by looking at the grid (as opposed
to knowing what you want and typing it in)

If anyone has any suggestions, and if anyone knows if anything like
this has been done before please comment.

Oh and if anyone has suggestions on the best way to make the database of
hyperlinks that reference each other (spidering all of wikipedia, or
is there a better way to do it?)

Sylvan