Show HN: Wikigraph – an interactive visualization of all of English Wikipedia
Hi! This is a visualization I've always wanted but never quite found. It's a navigable map of the Wikipedia link graph structure, with search and shortest-path finding. Offline, I parsed the May 2026 English Wikipedia full-text dump into a directed graph, used cuGraph on a GPU to run PageRank, Leiden clustering, and ForceAtlas2 for the layout. I did some post processing to get rid of lingering overlapping nodes and rendered a tiled map of raster base images (using Skia) and JSON metadata. Tiles are bundled into PMTiles. The frontend is Deck.gl. Everything is hosted on Cloudflare. Search and shortest-path are served by a Rust backend in CF Containers which uses Tantivy and bidirectional BFS. Happy to answer any questions!
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sjdv1982
I was dragging to rotate it before I realized that it was 2D... Are there really two principal components or is that primarily your choice of visualization?