I Made a Graph of Wikipedia… This Is What I Found

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A deep dive into the network of Wikipedia and some of the the most interesting, bizarre, and unique articles on the website.

Music:
Beyond the Wall – Sugoi
How About Now? – Andreas Dahlbäck
First Horizon – ELFL
Neroli – Ennio Máno
Tree Tops – Autohacker

Technical details for nerds:
– Data is collected from Wikipedia dumps
– Graph is made with python-igraph
– Distributed Recursive Layout algorithm is used for the graph layout
– Leiden algorithm is used for community detection
– A valid article is any page in Wikipedia’s article namespace excluding redirect pages, disambiguation pages, and soft redirects
– A valid link is a link in an articles body. Links that appear in or after the /”See Also/” section and links that appear as footnotes are not included since these are not really a part of the article’s body. Links in and after the /”See Also/” section of pages are typically not used in Wikipedia races.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Communities
4:07 Popular Articles
7:38 Orphans & Dead Ends
10:23 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
14:56 Longest Path on Wikipedia
17:06 FANTA CAKE
19:20 Outro

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