[WikiEN-l] hyperlinks in Wikipedia rock!

[Charles Matthews]

Shriram Getc wrote:
> Interesting blog post - research guys investigate how knowledge in Wikipedia organizes itself as the effect of collaborative contributions:
> http://mint.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/poster-analysis-of-community-structure-in-wikipedia-at-www2009.html
>
>   
Yes, interesting. It is good to see the hypertext aspect of WP get 
proper analysis - I have felt for a long time that the per-article style 
of discussion is tone deaf to some of the more important features of the 
encyclopedia. And my intuition is now that much of the basic 
organisation of the site runs on units of size 1% or smaller (no one can 
really master chunks that are much larger, and in fact 1% is now quite 
large for a WikiProject scope).  The methodology suggested could 
validate this kind of commentary. Further, there seems to be a 
foundational debate about the category system that doesn't get much 
attention, and what it says suggests one could second-guess the 
categories we have, at least working from the root.

Charles