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WHAT
Wikipedia Concept Trends presents a map of emerging concepts, both old and new, that revolve around the new buzzword "Web 2.0." By examining the linking paths of terms in the context of Wikipedia articles, a series of associated terminology span into a complex "net" diagram based on wiki-statistical relationships. The resulting images trace the growth of 'Web 2.0' cultures and reveal the most popular among them.
Wikipedia Concept Trends presents a map of emerging concepts, both old and new, that revolve around the new buzzword "Web 2.0." By examining the linking paths of terms in the context of Wikipedia articles, a series of associated terminology span into a complex "net" diagram based on wiki-statistical relationships. The resulting images trace the growth of 'Web 2.0' cultures and reveal the most popular among them.
WHY
The assimilation of internet technology in the daily life of modern citizens subsequently creates a unanimous online society that involves participation and collaboration where information is continually created and shared. People spend hours of their life writing blogs, sharing photos, downloading files, or shopping on eBay. All of these activities absorb the idea of a web community. Each individual participates and collaborates with each other through the invisible wireless connection that brings convenience and varieties to life.
The concept "Web 2.0" acknowledges the World Wide Web as the vital platform for these collaborative efforts. The goal of this project focuses on discovering the origin of Web 2.0 related concepts, understanding its technological and cultural aspects, and learning how they have branched out to similar or smaller concepts over time. These terms might not have direct relationships with one another, but they are all connected to parts of the Wikipedia article that defines 'Web 2.0.' The project ultimately carries one ideal way for us to understand the online society we indulge ourselves into deeply with a visualization capturing many facets of internet cultures using a structure similar to a subway map design.
The assimilation of internet technology in the daily life of modern citizens subsequently creates a unanimous online society that involves participation and collaboration where information is continually created and shared. People spend hours of their life writing blogs, sharing photos, downloading files, or shopping on eBay. All of these activities absorb the idea of a web community. Each individual participates and collaborates with each other through the invisible wireless connection that brings convenience and varieties to life.
The concept "Web 2.0" acknowledges the World Wide Web as the vital platform for these collaborative efforts. The goal of this project focuses on discovering the origin of Web 2.0 related concepts, understanding its technological and cultural aspects, and learning how they have branched out to similar or smaller concepts over time. These terms might not have direct relationships with one another, but they are all connected to parts of the Wikipedia article that defines 'Web 2.0.' The project ultimately carries one ideal way for us to understand the online society we indulge ourselves into deeply with a visualization capturing many facets of internet cultures using a structure similar to a subway map design.
HOW
In order to successfully collect all the terms associated with "Web 2.0," we utilized the Wiki Mindmap tool that breaks down a list of related linked terms generated from the Web 2.0 article. We then filtered out 100 terms/concepts that relate to 'Web 2.0.' To find a recognizable pattern among these, we decided to gather their Wiki data, such as the number of people editing, number of revisions, number of visitors, and the date of first edit from each wiki article.
To determine the number of editors and revisions for each article, we used the TDS' Article Contribution Counter. For the number of visitors, we used a Wikipedia traffic statistics website, which gave us the number of visits for each article per month. Lastly, we simply looked at the history page of each wiki article and wrote down its 'date of birth'--the day the article was first created. GoogleDocs and Spreadsheets was used to organize the data and make an initial visualization using Motion Chart. An initial analysis of the data provided us with a map of these concepts in their relative positions to each other.
After an initial analysis of the data, we determined the relationships between these terms and created the resulting visualizations. Once the terms found their place, we modified the text with size and color variation to signal the difference in popularity. We arrived at a complex but colorful map that tells the story of the emergence of "Web 2.0."
Our project only maps out 100 terms that relate to "Web 2.0," and thus only reflects only a kernel of the web of concepts that associate with it. Our project only visualizes data for the month of April 2008. Further developments of this project would expand in this area as well as provide more visualizations of how these concepts grow over time.
In order to successfully collect all the terms associated with "Web 2.0," we utilized the Wiki Mindmap tool that breaks down a list of related linked terms generated from the Web 2.0 article. We then filtered out 100 terms/concepts that relate to 'Web 2.0.' To find a recognizable pattern among these, we decided to gather their Wiki data, such as the number of people editing, number of revisions, number of visitors, and the date of first edit from each wiki article.
To determine the number of editors and revisions for each article, we used the TDS' Article Contribution Counter. For the number of visitors, we used a Wikipedia traffic statistics website, which gave us the number of visits for each article per month. Lastly, we simply looked at the history page of each wiki article and wrote down its 'date of birth'--the day the article was first created. GoogleDocs and Spreadsheets was used to organize the data and make an initial visualization using Motion Chart. An initial analysis of the data provided us with a map of these concepts in their relative positions to each other.
After an initial analysis of the data, we determined the relationships between these terms and created the resulting visualizations. Once the terms found their place, we modified the text with size and color variation to signal the difference in popularity. We arrived at a complex but colorful map that tells the story of the emergence of "Web 2.0."
Our project only maps out 100 terms that relate to "Web 2.0," and thus only reflects only a kernel of the web of concepts that associate with it. Our project only visualizes data for the month of April 2008. Further developments of this project would expand in this area as well as provide more visualizations of how these concepts grow over time.
Motion Chart
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