The folks at A Beautiful WWW have created a couple of very interesting visualizations to explain or represent activity on Wikipedia. The first article – Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia – includes a description of the technique. They even have a zoomable and scrollable graphic. This is a good place to start. The follow-up shows science and technology activity. I find this fascinating. It reminds me of some of the visualizations in Edward Tufte‘s books such as is The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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