[Commons-l] Visualize category madness

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 4/12/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to tell you that de:user:dapete has developed a tool to see
> how a specific category relates to the main category.
>
> Check it out at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/ and use the wiki
> commonswiki

The category graph on enwiki was recently proven to be a scale free
network. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network)

It appears that commons may be following the same pattern.

I view this as problematic, since SFNs do not logically partition information.

However, I think we have too many people invested in the current
system to allow any changes. Oh well.