FIELD GUIDE / WIKIPEDIA, MAPPED
Learn About Wikipedia’s Hidden Connections
Clear explanations of article links, knowledge graphs, and the choices behind WikiCrawl’s maps.
- NOTE 01What Is a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole?A Wikipedia rabbit hole is a chain of curiosity driven by links between articles. Learn how to follow one without losing the thread.
- NOTE 02Wikipedia as a Knowledge GraphSee how Wikipedia articles and their links can be represented as a graph, and what that view can and cannot tell you.
- NOTE 03How Wikipedia Articles Are ConnectedUnderstand the links that connect Wikipedia articles and how an article-link graph differs from a semantic knowledge base.
- NOTE 04How WikiCrawl WorksA practical account of WikiCrawl’s MediaWiki requests, bounded crawling, graph analysis, and interactive rendering.