Full disclosure: I am the creator of the Project Grant application for Arc.heolo.gy, located here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Arc.heolo.gy

I hope for this to be a general discussion on potential applications, criticisms, questions, technological recommendations, and community discussion.

Currently, the project has a live Neo4j Graph database built and parsed from a download of the English language Wikipedia from April. I have temporarily hosted the database instance both on my local machine and a SoftLayer server provided under a temporary entrepreneur credit.

My goal is two fold. On the backend: refine the parsing algorithm (I am getting some incorrect relationships in the database), automate the parsing so that it updates the database frequently, expand language support, and perform semantic parsing to weight individual relationships to strengthen the ability to filter out extraneous relationships. On the frontend: I have done little to zero work here beyond pure conceptualization. I would hope to use an asynchronous front-end javascript framework to build both a 2d (d3) and 3d (webGL) interface to be able to explore the database with a high amount of control and ease.

If any of you would like to access the database for exploration, please contact me privately and I will give you credentials.

Any recommendations on parsing, hosting, visualization, or otherwise are appreciated. Endorsements and Volunteers are also highly appreciated!

p.s. I am new to directly engaging with the Wiki community, and if I committed some faux pas in starting this thread please let me know and I will do my best to correct it.