Comments on: Idea: Visualize wikipedia trails http://www.notes.xythian.net/2008/08/26/idea-visualize-wikipedia-trails/ Links, technical notes, whatnot. Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:58:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ken http://www.notes.xythian.net/2008/08/26/idea-visualize-wikipedia-trails/comment-page-1/#comment-5904 Ken Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:26 +0000 http://www.notes.xythian.net/?p=219#comment-5904 Alas, I got distracted with other stuff. It would be a much easier to generate something interesting with access to Wikipedia access logs since then you skip the whole "opt in". I'm much more interested in the actual paths people take rather than the directed graph of possible links. Alas, I got distracted with other stuff. It would be a much easier to generate something interesting with access to Wikipedia access logs since then you skip the whole “opt in”.

I’m much more interested in the actual paths people take rather than the directed graph of possible links.

]]> By: Ben P http://www.notes.xythian.net/2008/08/26/idea-visualize-wikipedia-trails/comment-page-1/#comment-5903 Ben P Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:59:35 +0000 http://www.notes.xythian.net/?p=219#comment-5903 Hi Ken, Did you ever get around to expanding on this? I had a very similar idea, but that would actually run as a bot, so I give it a page, it returns a list of links to other pages, represents that as a directed graph, does the same for each returned page, up to a specified number of iterations. Knowing that there is likely to be software out there for building the graphs themselves, this doesn't even appear to be a difficult project. Cool idea though? It came to me when I found I needed to bookmark a number of linked pages - but that really the links themselves were as valuable as the pages (i.e. where I was coming from was as useful information as where I was). Hi Ken,

Did you ever get around to expanding on this? I had a very similar idea, but that would actually run as a bot, so I give it a page, it returns a list of links to other pages, represents that as a directed graph, does the same for each returned page, up to a specified number of iterations.
Knowing that there is likely to be software out there for building the graphs themselves, this doesn’t even appear to be a difficult project.

Cool idea though? It came to me when I found I needed to bookmark a number of linked pages – but that really the links themselves were as valuable as the pages (i.e. where I was coming from was as useful information as where I was).

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