Landing : Athabascau University

History flow in Wikipedia edits

http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/results.htm

This is fascinating, not only in providing a bit of information about the resilience of Wikipedia pages to vandalism but also in graphically illustrating the flow to the adjacent possible, ever-growing and branching, that makes the system not just a repository of knowledge but a means through which it grows.

Comments

  • Susan Bainbridge June 13, 2011 - 10:44am

    Thank you Jon! I was particularly interested in the graphics. Attempting to visually portray networked activity on the Web is a challenge and these graphics may help me.