Updating WikiTwister

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Updating WikiTwister

by Tara Calishain

Last year I put together WikiTwister, a site for Wikipedia / Wikidata tools. It was useful but I never really liked the design. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve updated it and added a couple of new tools. I think you’ll like it! Here are the six tools that make up the new WikiTwister.

Wikipedia Seismograph

A screenshot of Wikipedia Seismograph in action. it's showing a chart of Julie Andrews' Wikipedia page activity between July and September. She's got two big spikes toward the end of August.

Track changes in Wikipedia article page views, view them as a chart, and turn those chart spikes into Google News searches.

Wikipedia Hot Topics

Wikipedia Hot Topics in action. On the left side of the page is a search and browse nav where you can specify the list date you want to analyze and how many pages (up to 1000) you want to analyze. Underneath that is a list of living people that made the list. A detail panel on the right provides information on Ashley McBryde, a singer-songwriter.

Analyze one of Wikipedia’s daily Top 1000 list to find the fastest chart climbers. Each listing has a detail page to provide you with external information links and even keyword-based #RSS feeds!

WikiCat Main Characters

A screenshot of WikiCat Main Characters in action. Three tiers are showing for the category 21st Century American Philanthropists. The big category winner is J.B. Pritzker.

Discover the most popular people in a Wikipedia category across three dynamically-generated tiers. You can choose to look for recent or all-time popularity as well as filter your list to include only living persons.

Wiki Category Chronology

Wiki Category Chronology in action. It's showing the creation dates for all the pages in the "January 6 United States Capitol Attack," category, which is still adding pages / categories as of July 2024.

List the pages of a Wikipedia category by creation date (Sometimes the creation date is before the category creation date, as pages are moved into categories.)

This is useful with general categories for getting information on which pages are more recently-added topics, but for categories built around events it can also give you a bit of a timeline.

Wikidata Quick Dip

Wikidata Quick Dip in Action. It's showing pages from the Museums of American Art category with official website Wikidata. Each listing includes the name of the article, the relevant Wikidata (in this case the official web site), a brief description of the article, and a note of when the article was last updated.

Wikidata Quick Dip analyzes the Wikidata properties a category’s pages have in common and makes them browsable. So if you want to, say, look at the all the pages in the Museums of American Art category with official website Wikidata, you can do that.

RoloWiki

RoloWiki in action. It has pulled up Laurie Anderson's Wikipedia page. A pop-up card is showing information about her late husband Lou Reed, his name, occupation, date of birth, Library of Congress authority ID, Commons category, official Web site, and Facebook Username. RoloWiki makes more information than those items available; this is just what came up for Lou Reed.

RoloWiki replaces inter-wiki links with pop-up cards containing useful Wikidata like official Website information, social media, corporate data, etc. I built this originally so you could open one of those Wikipedia “list of” pages and get something useful out of it, but it works for any Wikipedia article. Not all intra-Wiki links will have any relevant Wikidata associated with them, but most people/companies do and many places do.

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