Visualising Wikipedia

Visualising Wikipedia (VIZWP) is a new tool for visualising groups of Wikipedia articles, analysing and monitoring them, supporting the work of volunteers and communities, and creating knowledge landscapes.

How you can use the tool:

Volunteers. Explore the most viewed Wikipedia articles and assess which ones to improve, whether a quality version exists in another language, if images are missing, whether the topics are controversial, or if there are specific issues.
Researchers and journalists. Analyse how a topic is presented on Wikipedia.
Affiliates and partners. Evaluate and monitor the quality of topics on Wikipedia and how they evolve. Use visualisations as a communication tool to explain the relevance of Wikimedia projects and their impact.
GLAMs. Explore how topics central to your mission are documented on Wikipedia, contribute with your data and expertise to improve them, and monitor their impact.

Participate

Contribute to the project by providing your feedback on Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Community.

Credits

The tool is developed in the frame of the research project “Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change: Assessing online open content and supporting community engagement. The case of Wikipedia (2025-2029)”, led by SUPSI, in collaboration with Wiki Education Foundation, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa and Open Climate Campaign, with the endorsement of Wikimedia Italia and supported by the SNSF (10.003.183).

Research team: Iolanda Pensa (concept and principal investigator), Giovanni Profeta (coordinator and designer), Chiara Somajni, Florence Devouard, Sage Ross, Nicole Schwitter, Cristian Scapozza and Florian Maximilian Meier.

The 2025–2029 research focuses on articles related to climate change and sustainability, aiming to assess the current state of coverage on these topics and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. However, the tool developed can be applied to any topic, starting from Wikidata.

Prototype “Wikipedia e la scuola italiana” https://itwiki-scuola-italiana.toolforge.org/ (code https://github.com/giovannipro/giovannipro.github.io/tree/master/wikipedia-scuola-italiana).

Collaboration with “Visualizing Impact” by Wiki Education https://impact.wikiedu.org (code https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/impact-visualizer).