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[edit] Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia

The New Scientist reported on new software which gives a visual and dynamic view of the changing mass of links and edits that is Wikipedia.

"This chaotic-looking mosaic is one attempt to show which topics are contained in the online encyclopedia, and those most hotly contested. It's a mind-boggling task. About 4 million "Wikipedians" have made over 130 million edits, and the English-language version alone contains 1.7 million articles. Every second a new edit is made, and every day 2000 new articles spring up."