Monday, September 09, 2013
Visualizing the Geography of Wikipedia
Mapping Wikipedia is a project from TraceMedia and the Oxford Internet Institute.
Using the Google Maps API Mapping Wikipedia allows you to view the geography of all geotagged Wikipedia articles in a number of different languages. It can also create maps based on the word count of articles, the date created, number of authors, and number of images.
If you are interested about how the map was created TraceMedia has provided an outline of the tools used in building the application.
WikipediaVision is a Google Map of real-time map edits to Wikipedia.
The map displays an information window for each edit, with the title of the article, the summary of the edit (if a summary was given), a link to the changes that were made to the article and the time the edit happened.