Pathway is an OS X app that visualizes the path you take through Wikipedia pages as a graph. The effect is similar to the Memex, except you can’t add arbitrary nodes or annotations. You can save and revisit your paths, though. Fun, but I’m not sure it’s useful yet.
Via Density
I claim prior-art
http://hipnik.net/~ivan/code/wikiwalk.png
Late last semester I created a Greasemonkey script that would report your wiki-wanderings to my server. The information would then be gathered to generate DOT-formatted files for feeding into GraphViz. If iSchoolers are interested, I can continue working on it. We can have a gigantor map of iSchooler walks through the Wikipedia!
It would be awesome to see nodes that get revisited, or even retraced paths, but I bet it would end up like the iSchool last.fm charts: not a lot of overlap. I also doubt everyone wants every page they look at on Wikipedia logged. Then people would know I have a crush on Skeletor.
Hmm…I think most paths would look like this.
Hearkening back to an earlier post, it’s always interesting to see what Wikipedia chooses to “un-invent”. Here are articles slated for deletion, updated daily. Thursday’s batch includes ‘ball sweat,’ ‘twincest‘ (see also: Star Wars), and ‘Geoffrey Giuliano,’ who is “the premere rock historian and writer of his time” whose article is being deleted through persistent attacks “from a fringe group of Hare Krishna’s (sic).”
http://xkcd.com/c214.html