Map-like Wikipedia Visualization is a new way to explore and access the content in the Wikipedia. The experimental method of user interaction is to show the Wikipedia categories on a surface and to make them looking like a geographic map. We preserve the linkages and connections between the content and try to arrange them in terms of their similarities. In this way, users are able to locale information by navigating the map and relevant items nearby, in contrast to the traditional keyword searching method.

This app is part of the research conducted in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau; and is supported by the “Macau Special Administrative Region – Science and Technology Development Fund”.