The Editing and Deletion procedures at Wikipedia get a lot of attention these days, and a new visualization called ‘Notabilia’ shines a light specifically on the latter. Mapping the choices between ‘keep’ and ‘delete’ amongst the editors, it creates an interesting tree-style visualization.
The online visualization visualizes 100 Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions that took the longest amount of time. A discussion is represented by a thread starting at the bottom center. Each time a user joins an AfD discussion and recommends to ‘keep’, ‘merge’, or ‘redirect’ the article a green segment leaning towards the left is added. Each time a user recommends to ‘delete’ the article a red segment leaning towards the right is added. As the discussion progresses, the length of the segments as well as the angle slowly decay.
Good one Greg K. Most editors get better the longer they edit, so their opinions are appreciated more. Some editors don’t. New hobby please!
I think it would be interesting, also, to adjust the angle (or perhaps the thickness) of the line, based on how much a Wikipedia “cabal” member is the editor casting the vote. Let’s face it, not all Wikipedians exert equal power on the project.