Wikigraph – an interactive visualization of all of English Wikipedia

Name: Wikigraph – an interactive visualization of all of English Wikipedia
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Author: tfpgh

by tfpgh·Jun 2, 2026·11 points·2 comments

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AI Analysis

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GPU-accelerated layout renders 7M articles with shortest-path finding between any two.

Strengths

•cuGraph GPU processing handles PageRank and ForceAtlas2 on massive scale
•Bidirectional BFS finds shortest paths through 221M links
•Leiden clustering reveals topic communities visually

Weaknesses

•Wikipedia visualization exists in other forms already
•Practical use case beyond exploration remains unclear

Post Description

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!