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WikiMap A Visual Graph of Wikipedia Articles

WikiMap A Visual Graph of Wikipedia Articles. CSE 403, Winter 2011 Alana Killeen, Kimberly Koenig, Steven Kwan. Vision. Break out of the Wikipedia “street view”! Allow users to browse the entire "map" of Wikipedia 

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WikiMap A Visual Graph of Wikipedia Articles

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  1. WikiMapA Visual Graph of Wikipedia Articles CSE 403, Winter 2011 Alana Killeen, Kimberly Koenig, Steven Kwan

  2. Vision • Break out of the Wikipedia “street view”! • Allow users to browse the entire "map" of Wikipedia  • An interactive, graph model for visually searching and exploring Wikipedia articles and their relationships • Connections (edges) between related articles • Zoom out/in to only see connections with high/low relevancy • Hover over article “nodes” to preview content • Target = Knowledge Enthusiasts • People who love to learn and see how information is connected • Students, professionals, researchers, or casual learners • Scope • Not reinventing Wikipedia or its search engine! • Not representing all article relationships/interconnections

  3. Software Architecture Client Tier Logic Tier Wikipedia Data Tier Query/Input Parser Wikipedia API Parser Page Rendering Relevancy Algorithm

  4. Challenges & Risks • Managing "information overload“ for simplicity, performance, and ideal user experience • More relationships between articles than can be represented • Which relationships to show? How many is too many? • Preserving performance with a large dataset • Mitigation strategies • Provide adjustable levels of detail/granularity (“zoom in/out”) • Different ways to determine relational strength between articles • "See also" section = high relevance • Articles mutually referencing each other (graph cycles) = high relevance • Do not attempt to preload all data at once • Render graph “on the fly” per user’s input • Predict and pre-load some data which may be useful • Higher priority to more strongly-linked relationships by default

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