A collection of visualization projects built on Wikipedia data
See, also: Featured visualizations of Wikipedia

		
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: available on github. 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2019
					Wiki Atlas
					
"The tool renders Wikipedia content in a 3-dimensional, web-based cartographic environment. The map acts as a medium that enables the discovery and exploration of articles in a manner that explicitly associates geography and information." 
					
						
							By: A. Noulas (NYU), D. Saez (WMF)
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
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					2017
					Encartopedia
					
"Encartopedia helps locate yourself, or to be more precise, locate the subject matter of your curiosity within the universe of Wikipedia articles." 
					
						
							By: sepans at FastFoard Labs
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: background blog post. 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: WikiBrain on github and pre-processing code on Github (note -- code is pending publication) 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2016
					Lifemap
					
"An exhaustive knowledge of the evolutionary relationships linking all organisms (the whole biodiversity) would produce a tree-like structure, referred to as the Tree of Life (ToL)." 
					
						
							By: Damien M. de Vienne
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: on github, described in PLoS Biology 
						
						
						
							Data: NCBI and OTOL data, and Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: concept 
						
						
						
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							Data: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons
						
						
					

				
		
			
					
					

						
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					2015
					Chronas
					
"Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view." 
					
						
							By: Dietmar Aumann
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia and Wikidata
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: here 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia API
						
						
					

				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2016
					Music Genre Popularity Over the Years
					
"Wikipedia is a gold mine of lists, lists of lists and even lists of lists of lists. One of these lists of lists happens to be Billboard’s Hot 100 songs which allows us to browse Wikipedia’s data pretty easily." 
					
						
							By: Brian Brightside
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: here 
						
						
						
							Data: Web scraping
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: on github. 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia dumps
						
						
					

				
		
			
					
						
					
					2015
					Contropedia
					
"Enter the titles of Wikipedia articles to view a map of the locations of each edit." 
					
						
							By: Theo Patt
						
					
				
		
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2012
					Omnipedia
					
"Omnipedia highlights the similarities and differences that exist among the language editions, making salient information that is unique to each language as well as that which is shared more widely." 
					
						
							By: Patti Bao, Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2011
					Wikipulse
					
A simple and familiar dashboard of edit rates to various wikis, including Wikipedia and Wikidata. 
					
						
							By: Ed Summers
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: available on github. 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia Recent Changes IRC feed
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
						
					
					2015
					Wikipedia edit history stratigraphy
					
"Each graphic represents the history of a single article. Time moves from left to right. The varying heights of the coloured section of represent how many lines an article had at each point in time. Articles typically start short and become longer over the years." 
					
						
							By: Chris McDowall
						
					
				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2015
					Wikisearch
					
"Each graphic represents the history of a single article. Time moves from left to right. The varying heights of the coloured section of represent how many lines an article had at each point in time. Articles typically start short and become longer over the years." 
					
						
							By: Clusterpoint
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia Dumps
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2015
					Histography
					
"Histography is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new recorded events." 
					
						
							By: Matan Stauber
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					Historic London as Seen from Wikipedia
					
"While Wikipedia is a most modern creation, its content reflects a historical accumulation of facts and attention. This map of London shows the density of articles in Wikipedia associated with locations in London." 
					
						
							By: Elijah Meeks
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					Wikipedia edit wars: The most controversial topics
					
"Taha Yasseri of the Oxford Internet Institute and colleagues looked at Wikipedia’s different language editions from their inception (January 2001 for English) to March 2010 and ranked the most contested articles, based on the number of reverts and the number of edits the contributors have made (dubbed their “maturity score”)." 
					
						
							By: Roxana Willis and Lloyd Parker
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2015
					Wikidata Spiral
					
"Originally created as a means to explore Wikidata's subclass hierarchy, Wikidata Spiral proved to be more useful in visualizing art. " 
					
						
							By: Drini Cami
						
					
				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2015
					whoCOLOR
					
"creates an on-demand color-markup of the original authors of the text of any article on the (english) wikipedia." 
					
						
							By: Felix Stadthaus
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: on github 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikipedia
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2015
					ViziData
					
"This is a visualization prototype for large datasets of spacio-temporal data from Wikidata.  Events for a selected time-interval are shown as aggregate points in a map like fashion." 
					
						
							By: Georg Wild
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: on github 
						
						
						
							Data: processed from Wikidata
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
					

						
							Code: InfoMap + proprietary 
						
						
						
							Data: Raw Wikipedia data
						
						
					

				
		
			
					
					

						
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							Data: Raw Wikipedia data
						
						
					

				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2014
					Global Language Network
					
"Here we use the structure of the networks connecting multilingual speakers and translated texts, as expressed in book translations, multiple language editions of Wikipedia, and Twitter, to provide a concept of language importance that goes beyond simple economic or demographic measures." 
					
						
							By: MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group + more
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Raw Wikipedia data
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2014
					WikiGalaxy
					
Explore Wikipedia in 3D space by drifting through a galaxy of articles. Each dot is a Wikipedia article, and their connections form constellations. 
					
						
							By: Owen Cornec
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia API
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
						
					
					2014
					Backstory
					
"My hope is that Wikipedia stays around for a while so that we can look at 50 years of a topic so can really see from childhood on." 
					
						
							By: Florian Kräutli
						
					
				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2014
					Green Honey
					
"Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works." 
					
						
							By: Muyueh Lee
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Raw data
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2014
					href + U.S. cities
					
"Is there a correlation between the population of a place and the number of hyperlinks on a Wikipedia page?" 
					
						
							By: Max Einstein
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Raw pages
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2014
					Local Wikipedia Map
					
"The motivation of this page is to get a little more oversight of the facts and connections which are part of the Wikipedia. To get the birds eye view of Wikipedia we have to focus a part of of the whole we want to focus. This focus should describes a field of articles that interrelate." 
					
						
							By: Rasmus Krempel
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: DBpedia
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
						
					
					2014
					Wikipedia globe
					
Using geocordinate data from Wikipedia articles, this interactive 3d globe illustrates the concentration of coverage in nine language editions of Wikipedia. 
					
						
							By: Denny Vrandečić
						
					
				
		
			
					
						
					
					2014
					Paris Review Interviews and Wikipedia
					
"...I wanted to get a picture not only of what Wikipedia articles pointed at the Paris Review, but also Paris Review interviews which were not referenced in Wikipedia. So I wrote a little crawler that collected all the Paris Review interviews, and then figured out which ones were pointed at by English Wikipedia." 
					
						
							By: Ed Summers
						
					
				
		
			
					
						
					
					2008
					WikiChanges
					
Using Wikipedia's API, WikiChanges charts and compares revision activity of articles over time, offering insights into the editing patterns of contributors and the attentions of the masses. 
					
						
							By: Sérgio Nunes
						
					
				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2013
					Wikimedia Community Visualization
					
Community interaction on Wikipedia, based on user communication on on talk pages. The graph is built with Gephi, showing 10,0000 connections between users. 
					
						
							By: Haitham Shammaa
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: available on github 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikimedia dumps
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2011
					Co-editing patterns on Wikipedia
					
"These links indicate individuals who have co-edited many pages together on Wikipedia. We use a custom weighting technique, and filter down to the core editors (in every language except Egyptian Arabic and Swahili where we use everyone). The fact that this core is so well connected indicates the coherence of the Wikipedia community." 
					
						
							By: 
Mark Graham, Ahmed Medhat Mohammed, Bernie Hogan and Richard Farmbrough, Oxford Internet Institute
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					Information Imbalance: Africa on Wikipedia
					
"At the global scale (in an article that we currently have under review), we found that the number of Wikipedia articles within (or describing) a country can be explained to a large degree by just three factors: (1) the size of its population, (2) the number of its fixed broadband internet connections, and (3) the number of edits committed to Wikipedia by its population." 
					
						
							By: Ralph Straumann, Mark Graham, Bernie Hogan, Ahmed Medhat
						
					
				
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2012
					Art History on Wikipedia
					
"I am a highly visual person. When I have to learn something new, I usually first try to make a sketch of the structure of the knowledge that I want (or have to ;-)) to study. This usually results in diagrams outlining the material, giving it some structured form that makes it easier for me to grasp. "
 
					
						
							By: Doron Goldfarb, Dieter Merk, Max Arends, Josef Froschauer

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2007
					Emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity
					
"In this case the nodes in the network are wikipedia articles and the edges are the links between articles.  We then ... used an algorithm to lay out all 650,000 nodes (wikipedia articles) that had at least one link in such a way that similar articles are near one another.  These are the yellow dots, which when viewed at low res give a yellow tint to the whole picture."
 
					
						
							By: Bruce Herr, Todd Holloway, and Katy Börner

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					Flow Circle
					
"First, this study introduces the Flow Circle, which is a new exploratory data analysis tool devised to solve such problems of History Flow. Second, this tool is used to actually visualize the Wiki revision history regarding gun politics in order to understand and analyze the flow of the revision history and the relationship and conflict structures between the authors based on the results of the MDS analysis."
 
					
						
							By: Jaeho Lee, Dongjin Kim, Jaejune Park, Kyungwon Lee

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					Wikipedia Worldview
					
"A while ago, Wikipedia introduced georeferences. Georeferences are a way to annotate geographic landmarks, borders, [and] cities within Wikipedia articles ... Wikipedia Worldview is an app to project Wikipedia georeferences onto a 2D plane, intended to analyze the language-based distribution."
 
					
						
							By: Simon Schulz

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: WikiLocation
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2007
					ClusterBall
					
"The clustering component of this visualization is vital. The mere presence of information isn't all that interesting; there is no context or relevance to be gleaned. However, the structure of information is revealing about where fields intersect and diverge, and ultimately about how humans organize information."
 
					
						
							By: Chris Harrison

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia dumps
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2011
					Notabilia
					
"We analyzed and visualized Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions in the English Wikipedia. The visualization above represents the 100 longest discussions that resulted in the deletion of the respective article. "
 
					
						
							By: Dario Taraborelli, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, and Moritz Stefaner

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2013
					A Map of the Geographic Structure of Wikipedia Topics
					
"Since geography is never far from history, a lot of maps show the colonial past of many countries. As ethnic groups don’t always fall inside political borders, several maps reveal the presence of multiple ethnic or cultural groups within a country or of groups stretching across borders."
 
					
						
							By: Olivier H. Beauchesne
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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					2012
					wikistream
					"Wikistream is a Node.js webapp for helping visualize current editing activity in Wikipedia. It uses Node.js, socket.io and Redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime."
 
					
						
							By: Ed Summers, Sean Hannan, Delphine Ménard

						
					
				
				
					
					

						
							Code: available on github.
 
						
						
						
							Data: Wikimedia recent changes feed
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
				
					
						
					
					2011
					Wikipedia Gender
					"Using the gender api that I discovered in this project, I wanted to see the relations between the proportion female/male editing and article and its content."
 
					
						
							By: Santiago Ortiz
						
					
				
				
					
					

						
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							Data: Wikipedia API
						
						
					

				
			
		
			
					
						
					
					2013
					Wikistalker
					"Wikistalker, inspired by ‘Web Stalker‘, is a way of understanding a concept by only seeing the visualization of the meta-structure of its Wikipedia article."
 
					
						
							By: sepans, raschin

						
					
				
		
		