Scientific and technological activity on Wikipedia

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Note: the translation of the note “Visualizing Science & Tech Activity in Wikipedia” is below . Yellow color indicates articles on technological topics, green on scientific topics, and blue (blue) on mathematical topics. Caution! PNG: 3753x2775, 14 Mb For those who have not yet seen the initial Visualization of Activity on Wikipedia, you can find it here (there is a detailed description). There is also a scalable version in the style of Google maps. The new version uses the same layout and pictures (although a little better) as in the original, but we tried to highlight the activity in those parts of Wikipedia that can be attributed with some certainty to mathematics, science or technology.













We developed a program for classifying Wikipedia articles in relation to one of these categories (or none), based on our own categories of articles and their position in the Wikipedia category network.

We were not surprised by the close group of mathematical pages in that area, which, in my opinion, is somewhat “overheated”. In fact, the only article in this category that attracts significant attention is Earth . Also, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the technology articles are clearly distributed by topic.

The only striking fact is the group of popular science articles (blue-green), stretched out in the center of the thematic map diagonally. I will not share my interpretation of the phenomenon, let's leave comments.


The most frequently edited non-fiction articles. Almost nothing scientific. Just checking the correct operation of the algorithms! Web Optimizator: checking the speed of loading sites









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