Wikiverse Turns Wikipedia Into a Marvelous Galaxy of Knowledge (thenextweb.com) 34
An anonymous reader shares a The Next Web report: If recklessly clicking through hundreds of Wikipedia entries at a time no longer does it for you, Wikiverse is about to become your new favorite way of browsing the internet's richest encyclopedia. Built by Owen Cornec, it's a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visualizes the website as a cosmic web of information, literally turning it into a marvelous galaxy of knowledge you can conveniently explore with your mouse. To accomplish this, Wikiverse sources thousands of articles from Wikipedia and then generates a map where it showcases the countless connections and overlaps of information between each entry. In Wikiverse, each article appears as a star within larger domains and clusters of knowledge. To access any entry on Wikipedia, simply click on a star and Wikiverse will pull up the information for you.
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how can u pass on this kind of savings
you didn't provide a link
why dont you want sucess as sysadmin career
those careers have been outsourced to third world shitholes
It Literally Does *WHAT*?? (Score:3)
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This isn't even Wikipedia, it's just some hacky chart someone is trying to get people to view.
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It literally turns Wikipedia into a galaxy of knowledge? Is there a super-massive black-hole at the center of this actual galaxy as is claimed? How many light-years across is this actual galaxy? Is there life within this galaxy?
I truly think the promo author does not know the true meaning of the word "literally" and instead meant to use "figuratively".
Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, it literally turns Wikipedia into a figurative galaxy of knowledge.
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Yes, it does. And that black hole is named "Philosophy"
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Having looked at the website, I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."
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I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."
You realize that fsn [wikipedia.org] was a real file system viewer from SGI - right?
Clone [sourceforge.net] available.
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So in other words, one bad interface leads to another?
But thanks for the link ... I had no idea that someone at SGI actually created that mess. I thought it was some studio executive's twisted idea of what a computer GUI was supposed to look like. No wonder SGI went bankrupt. :-)
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This is what happens when Wikipedia has high school kids write their press releases, and Slashdot editors don't care enough to read them before re-posting.
Because I literally have nothing better to do,
Built by Owen Cornec, it's a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visualizes the website as a cosmic web of information, literally turning it into a marvelous galaxy of knowledge you can conveniently explore with your mouse.
1. It should be obvious to any reader with common sense that the "it" refers to the "web of information" mentioned previously. Not Wikipedia. Because it should be obvious to any reader that whatever Mr. Cornec has done is/was a derivative work and not an actual transformation of the Wikipedia website itself.
2. Besides the most common definition, a "galaxy" can be "any large and brilliant or impressive assemblage of persons or things" [dictionary.com]. I think Wikipedia's overwhe
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Yeah, you definitely need all the help you can get not looking like an asshole.
Dr. David Bowman (Score:2)
"My God, it's full of trolls!"
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Mod point, if I had one.
Shit. (Score:1)
Re: Shit. (Score:1)
Obligatory XKCD: Extened Mind (Score:2)
Read the alt text [xkcd.com]
Data is beautiful (Score:2)
/r/dataisbeautiful