Map-like Wikipedia overview visualization

Cheong Iao Pang, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai

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Abstract

Wikis, such as Wikipedia, have become increasingly popular in recent years. They allow anyone to easily contribute to collaboratively written content. To better organize content, users in Wikipedia assign categories to articles, or create new categories if needed. The resulting semantic coverage of a wiki's articles over its categories is worth studying but not easy to obtain. To provide a better understanding, we created an approach to visualize an entire wiki by creating a graphical representation that is similar to a geographical map. This enables even untrained users, as well as people outside the field of computer science, to obtain an easily understandable overview of a wiki.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011
Pages53-60
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 12th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: 23 May 201127 May 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011

Conference

Conference2011 12th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period23/05/1127/05/11

Keywords

  • Wikipedia
  • category
  • collaborative writing
  • semantic coverage
  • visualization
  • wiki

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