[WikiEN-l] Interwiki links analysis tool

[Brian]

Very cool, nice work, especially with the interwiki integration.
I've messed around a bit with viewing mediawiki link graphs using Cytoscape,
software designed for visualizing molecular interactions. But only a _very_
modern machine (I'm talking about a maxed out Mac Pro here :) could handle
the english wikipedia and certainly not the entire interwiki link graph as
you have done. But you can do lots of different kinds of visualizations with
it. Here's a good description:

http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=415

I also attached a Cytoscape file that will let you visualize Scholarpedia.
In case the list scrubs it: http://filebin.ca/zmtoy/scholarpedia.cys

(not to segue your thread - i thought you would find it interesting :)

Cheers,
Brian

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Lukasz Bolikowski <bolo at icm.edu.pl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've written a visual tool for analyzing the graph
> of interlanguage links between all 256 editions of
> Wikipedia.
>
> Its main advantages, compared to bots, are:
> * it analyzes the whole inconsistent component
> at once, while bots tend to work "locally" (in
> some neighborhood of an article);
> * cool (IMHO) graph visualization;
> * concrete recommendations: remove a link, split
> an article, merge articles, remove redirects.
>
> To stress the advantage of "global" vs. "local"
> analysis of a component: the largest connected
> component in the graph contains over 48'000
> articles, mixing over 2'500 different subjects.
> Some of the sources of semantic drift in such
> components are not visible "locally".
>
> Main disadvantages:
> * works on preprocessed dumps, instead of "live"
> Wikipedia, so the recommendations may be outdated;
> * (for the moment) does not recognize some of the
> redirects, due to poor quality of redirect dumps.
> Apparently I'm not the only one affected by the
> problem, and the guys at wikitech-l are aware
> of the issue;
> * Requires Java 6, eats a lot of resources (512M
> seems to be enough even for the largest case);
> * Doesn't change anything (points to the possible
> sources of problems instead).
>
> The tool is far from being complete, "prototype"
> would be a more appropriate name here (its
> original purpose was to help me evaluate some
> ideas for my PhD).  Please try it and send me
> your feedback, I'd like to make it more useful
> for the community.
>
> You can find the tool here:
>   http://wikitools.icm.edu.pl/
>
> Regards,
> Bolo1729
>
>
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