Wikipedia Article-Category Network
A Wikipedia (English edition category system) dataset of 2,036,440 nodes and 3,795,796 edges, collected by KONECT via Wikipedia XML dumps. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: False, temporal: False. Bipartite network of Wikipedia articles and the categories they belong to — useful for studying hierarchical knowledge organization.. Suitable for knowledge organization analysis, bipartite network analysis, Wikipedia category structure.
Cite this dataset at
wiki-en-cat.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 2,036,440 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
wiki-en-cat- Authors
- Foundation, Wikimedia
- Year
- 2010
- Source paper
- Wikimedia downloads
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 2,036,440
- Nodes
- 2,036,440
- Edges
- 3,795,796
- Nodes are
- article / category
- Edges are
- category membership
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2013 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/wiki-en-cat/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 15.6 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{foundation2010,
title = {Wikimedia downloads},
author = {Foundation, Wikimedia},
year = {2010},
note = {http://dumps.wikimedia.org/, January 2010.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Foundation, Wikimedia (2010). Wikipedia Article-Category Network [Data set]. https://wiki-en-cat.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Foundation, Wikimedia. Wikipedia Article-Category Network. 2010, wiki-en-cat.echo.directory/.