Emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity
- 2007
- Domain
This emergent mosaic supplies a macro view of all of the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) and reveals those areas that are currently hot, meaning, of late, they are being frequently being revised.
Description of Unique Features: The visualization contains 1,869 images taken from Wikipedia. This represents about 300 articles for every one image.
Visual Perception or Design Principles Applied: The red nodes are those articles that have been revised more frequently than the smaller yellow nodes. From Feb 6, 2001 to April 6, 2007, articles were edited 52,300,922 times.
Data Used: We would like to thank WikiMedia Foundation for freely making data dumps available for research.


