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Dear Memory Alpha community, with the help of Łukasz Bolikowski of the University of Warsaw, we prepared a visiual map of interlanguage links (or interwikis) in the Memory Alpha wiki family. We hope this will help you spot errors and gaps in the network of articles and thus raise the quality of the content.

This is based on a study of networks that Łukasz is doing. The results of his work on Wikipedia content, along with a short introduction and explanations, can be viewed at http://wikitools.icm.edu.pl/

--TOR 13:17, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

How this works

The map is divided into autonomous parts, or networks, and each network is presented in one SVG file. All of those files have been put into Category:Interwiki visualization. You can view the files using Inkscape.

Each dot on a network graph is one article. The lines connecting the dots are interwiki links (inbound or outbound). Red lines identify an interwiki link that the script suspects to be wrong.

Some of the "wrong" links can actually be correct, and the false positives may come from different degrees of article specificity from wiki to wiki. E.g. the Polish wiki might have one article for ships named USS Enterprise, while the English wiki has one for each individual ship. These would show up in red, but can safely be ignored.

Have fun!

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