Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors: Research Articles

This article presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and the age of the categories in this free online encyclopedia, and the content coverage of its highly productive authors. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity: 12: 30–40, 2007(This paper was submitted as an invited paper resulting from the “Understanding Complex Systems” conference held at the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign, May 2005)