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Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia

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Source: Stefaner, M. 2011. Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia. Well-Formed Data. Retrieved January 11, 2011, from: http://well-formed-data.net/archives/570/notabilia-visualizing-deletion-discussions-on-wikipedia.
Just in time for Wikipedia’s forth­com­ing tenth anniver­sary (con­grats!), two researchers – Dario Tara­borelli and Gio­vanni Luca Ciampaglia – approached me for a coop­er­a­tion on visu­al­iz­ing the dis­cus­sions around arti­cle dele­tions on Wikipedia. The (inter­me­di­ate?) results are online at notabilia.net.

tree screenshot
I came up with a tree visu­al­iza­tion, where an Arti­cle for Dele­tion dis­cus­sion is rep­re­sented by a thread start­ing at the bot­tom cen­ter. Each time a user rec­om­mends to keep, merge, or redi­rect the arti­cle a green seg­ment lean­ing towards the left is added. Each time a user rec­om­mends to delete the arti­cle a red seg­ment lean­ing towards the right is added. As the dis­cus­sion pro­gresses, the length of the seg­ments as well as the angle slowly decay.

In the visu­al­iza­tions, I tried to cap­ture the ten­sion between chaos and order inher­ent to the dis­cus­sions, and pro­vide a nice serendip­ity inter­face as well.

So much to learn about…

unusual screenshot

…or…

two-hit screenshot

…and…

playmates screenshot

But also some more hard analy­sis can be found at notabilia.net, look­ing at the vote dis­tri­b­u­tions, lengths of dis­cus­sions, etc. Take a look yourself!

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