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I wrote this several years ago if anyone is interested: http://xefer.com/wikipedia http://xefer.com/wikipedia It's not perfect but I enjoyed working on it

by xefer 11y ago

flippant 11y ago
Your project looks really cool, but it would be great if one could share a link to a query.
- xefer 11y ago
  Thanks. I will put that together. Really I should have done that from the start.
mdcox 11y ago
This is alot of fun. Would it be really difficult to be able to "blacklist" pages from the UI? I keep trying to come up with really disparate topics to find interesting connections, but everything is linked by "Knowledge".
igravious 11y ago
Think this must be the first time I've gone out of my way to log in to post a reply. Bloody brilliant. Care to explain how it works? That is all. Tip of the cap to you sir.
- xefer 11y ago
  Thanks. This is all client-side code, which was my entire goal. The visualization itself is built with the InfoVis toolkit (which I'm not sure is being maintained any longer.) If I were to do this today I'd look at D3 probably. The Wikipedia API is nice. It just requests an article by name and parses the result trying to get the first link. Getting that link can be a bit tricky though since there can be all sorts of metadata that needs to b ignored. Luckily Wikipedia seems to stick with some standard patterns. So basically it just recursively follows links until it either hit Philosophy or one that it has encountered before, in which case a branch is made.
personjerry 11y ago
There's a screencap of your project on that Wikipedia page!
mitchtbaum 11y ago
Very useful. Thank you... Sadly, inputting 'Linguistics' >> "Science > Knowledge > Awareness > Conscious > Consciousness > Quality (philosophy) > Philosophy", rather than, for instance, >> "Philosophy of language > Meaning (philosophy of language) > Definition > Intensional definition > Logic > Philosophy". Going by way of linguistics' own foundations routes a shorter path by one link and provides such a rich frame for understanding how we Humans found our way into philosophy. EDIT: Ah.. below butterfinger explains, the "first link" basis.. Gah!! Unstructured text :)
rev 11y ago
Artistic implementation! PS Both Kevin Bacon and bacon are 20 steps away from philosophy. Interesting.
tunnuz 11y ago
Very cool :)

I wrote this several years ago if anyone is interested: http://xefer.com/wikipedia http://xefer.com/wikipedia It's not perfect but I enjoyed working on it

by xefer 11y ago

I wrote this several years ago if anyone is interested: http://xefer.com/wikipedia http://xefer.com/wikipedia It's not perfect but I enjoyed working on it

flippant 11y ago

Your project looks really cool, but it would be great if one could share a link to a query.

xefer 11y ago
Thanks. I will put that together. Really I should have done that from the start.

mdcox 11y ago

This is alot of fun. Would it be really difficult to be able to "blacklist" pages from the UI? I keep trying to come up with really disparate topics to find interesting connections, but everything is linked by "Knowledge".

igravious 11y ago

Think this must be the first time I've gone out of my way to log in to post a reply. Bloody brilliant. Care to explain how it works? That is all. Tip of the cap to you sir.

xefer 11y ago
Thanks. This is all client-side code, which was my entire goal. The visualization itself is built with the InfoVis toolkit (which I'm not sure is being maintained any longer.) If I were to do this today I'd look at D3 probably. The Wikipedia API is nice. It just requests an article by name and parses the result trying to get the first link. Getting that link can be a bit tricky though since there can be all sorts of metadata that needs to b ignored. Luckily Wikipedia seems to stick with some standard patterns. So basically it just recursively follows links until it either hit Philosophy or one that it has encountered before, in which case a branch is made.

personjerry 11y ago

There's a screencap of your project on that Wikipedia page!

mitchtbaum 11y ago

Very useful. Thank you... Sadly, inputting 'Linguistics' >> "Science > Knowledge > Awareness > Conscious > Consciousness > Quality (philosophy) > Philosophy", rather than, for instance, >> "Philosophy of language > Meaning (philosophy of language) > Definition > Intensional definition > Logic > Philosophy". Going by way of linguistics' own foundations routes a shorter path by one link and provides such a rich frame for understanding how we Humans found our way into philosophy. EDIT: Ah.. below butterfinger explains, the "first link" basis.. Gah!! Unstructured text :)

rev 11y ago

Artistic implementation! PS Both Kevin Bacon and bacon are 20 steps away from philosophy. Interesting.

tunnuz 11y ago

Very cool :)