Wikimaps Revised
The first version of the Wikimaps Page ( http://www.ickn.org/wikimaps/ ) that we published a couple of weeks ago helped to visualize the basic idea of Wikimaps. It consists of an interactive animation that allows visitors to visually track the changes in Wikipedia articles over a given time period. Real world activities and events are reflected in updates of the respective articles and the links between them. Rise and Fall (of Swiss Tennis Star Hingis) on Wikimaps A good example is the retirement of the Swiss tennis player Martina Hingis. While her page (node) is still well connected to the network in 2008 (roughly a year after she retired), the page is not listed in the network anymore after February 2010. It is important to note that this view of the network is filtered and only displays nodes that “survive the cut”: The page of the former number one ranked player is still there and has many links pointing to it, just not enough to appear in this filtered “most important pages” view...