A problem with the category hierarchy is that any rather out of place subcategory brings in a full branch of anomalous subjects below it.
Thus making a report like https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pageviews/categorized/wp-en/2015-06/pa... involved cyclic pruning of weird subbranches, manually building a blacklist of nodes not to follow, that I could feed into the script.
The other project, I gave up https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm as it became too unwieldy. Also, sometimes a category re-appeared as a great-grandchild of itself. I had to detect that, in order to avoid loops.
Those are two of the pitfalls.
As for navigation: Even a smallish ('concise') example of how my second project https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/CategoryOverview_EN_Concise.htm makes it daunting. What I often see is a dynamic navigator that shows one level up or down, which makes me feel I'm in a maze.
Erik
From: Analytics [mailto:analytics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Andreescu Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 16:14 To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. analytics@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Analytics] Tool to visualize which wiki pages link to which wiki pages?
Hi Andre. Jaime's query is a good starting point, it would get you the data you need for one wiki. We can import the templatelinks table and then we can run it on Hadoop and get all wikis at once (we already have the other tables).
But once we got that, we'd have a graph with millions of nodes and edges. That's not possible to consume in visual form, so you could serve slices of the data and visualize parts of the graph. The question is, then, what purpose would this visualization have? If that's well defined, maybe we can figure out what slices of the data would be most useful.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Joseph Allemandou <jallemandou@wikimedia.org mailto:jallemandou@wikimedia.org > wrote:
Hi Andre,
I'm not aware of any tool as you describe.
I however think it would be super useful !
I'll think a bout it some more and possibly draft a ticket.
Cheers
Joseph
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com > wrote:
Andre Klapper, 21/11/2017 17:15:
I've been wondering if anyone's aware of any visualization tool that draws a graph showing which wiki pages are linked from which other wiki pages (up to a certain depth)
The closest thing I can think of is Erik's chart of category links, generated with a script which is published somewhere and could be adapted at least for simple regex filters. https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/CategoryOverviewIndex.htm https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pageviews/categorized/
There's also http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/ClusterBall and a graph of links between user pages, which was made perhaps in 2014.
Federico
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