Full disclosure: I am the creator of the Project Grant application for
Arc.heolo.gy <http://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 about a graph representation of Wikipedia.
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.
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