A link from one page to another is a concrete, inspectable connection in the encyclopedia. Treating it as a directed edge preserves which page contains the link.

The edge alone does not specify why the destination matters. A link graph is therefore different from a knowledge base that assigns typed facts such as “born in” or “causes.”

Sampling affects what you see

A graph explorer cannot show every Wikipedia page at once. It samples a neighborhood around a seed article according to its depth and size limits. Links between pages outside that sample cannot appear in the resulting map.

WikiCrawl’s traversal batches MediaWiki link requests, resolves redirects, filters noisy titles, and observes an explicit request budget. The graph analysis runs over the pages it successfully gathered.

Follow one neighborhood

Compare the article neighborhoods around gravitational waves and space exploration, then change the crawl settings in the live graph to examine a broader or narrower sample.