Wikipedia Panorama

Test the updated visualization tool for articles related to sustainability and climate change.

Wikipedia Panorama (previously called 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

Please note that the credits are still under construction :)

Wikipedia Panorama is a visualization tool designed and developed under the framework of the research project “Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change”, led by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), in collaboration with Wiki Education Foundation, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Wiki in Africa and Open Climate Campaign, with the endorsement of Wikimedia Italia, the support of the SNSF (10.003.183) and the engagement of many Wikipedia and Wikidata volunteers. The project is developed during the period 2025-2029.

Link to the visualization tool

Research team

The research team that developed the Wikipedia Panorama visualization tool includes:

Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator), Giovanni Profeta (coordination and design), Chiara Somajni, Sage Ross, Ahmed Amine Hassou, Nicole Schwitter, Cristian Scapozza, Greta Lapesa, Florian Maximilian Meier, Rebecca Bertero, Virginia Moretti.

Community involvement: Florence Devouard, Lucas Piantá, Federico Benvenuti.

Recorded qualitative interviews with Florian Maximilian Meier, Gitanjali Yadav, Dariusz Jemielniak, Lane Rasberry, Andrea Bandelli, Matthew Vetter, Sage Ross, Isla Haddow-Flood, Monica Granados, Evelin Heidel, Cristian Scapozza, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Alex Stinson, Mengyuan Fu and Kunhao Yang..

Code: https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/impact-visualizer.

Sources and history of the visualization tool

Visualizing Impact (2021-)

Visualizing Impact is a tool provided by Wiki Education (WikiEdu) designed to track and display the contributions made by editors (including students) to specific sets of Wikipedia articles or topics over time. In 2025, Iolanda Pensa and Sage Ross agreed to integrate the interactive visualizations from Wikipedia and the Italian School with Visualizing Impact.

Wikipedia and the Italian School (2020)

The visualization tool was originally conceived for the aims of the project Wikipedia and the Italian school. The project was funded by Wikimedia Italia in collaboration with a pool of teachers coming from Italian schools. It focused on describing and monitoring the status of Wikipedia content related to Italian schools during the coronavirus emergency, in 2020. However, it is still updated yearly.

The Wikipedia and the Italian school visualization tool is released under the MIT license. All data collected from Wikipedia and Wikidata are released under the license CC0 1.0.

Link to the Wikipedia and the Italian school visualization tool

Research team

Iolanda Pensa (responsible), Federico Benvenuti, Valerio Iannucci, Luca Martinelli, Paolo Fichera, Giovanni Profeta (design)

Reuse of the concept and code

The visualization tool was reused by similar initiatives in Uruguay and Ghana.

Wikipedia Primary School (2014 - 2017)

The very first work that lead to the development of the Wikipedia Panorama visualization tool was the project Wikipedia Primary School. It was a research project, developed by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the University of Cape Town, which aimed to develop and evaluate a system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and seeks to involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their production. The project ran in the period 2014-2017.

A set of 176 articles was analyzed and improved during the course of the project.

The visualization tool Wikimole, collecting data from the Wikipedia API, is realized under license GNU General Public License v3.0. It consists of a set of data visualizations that allow the analysis of article page views, cleanup tags, and wikilinks. All data collected from Wikipedia are released under the license CC0 1.0.

Research team

Iolanda Pensa (principal investigator for SUPSI), Tobias Schönwetter (principal investigator for the University of Cape Town), Isla Haddow-Flood, Marta Pucciarelli, Luca Botturi, Kelsey Wiens, Erica Litrenta, Florence Devouard, Giovanni Profeta, Giancarlo Gianocca.