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SkylerASmith commented on Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia   sixdegreesofwikipedia.com... · Posted by u/jwngr
jwngr · 8 years ago
I'd prefer you not send any additional load to my server (this is just a side project I'm paying out of pocket for), but you are welcome to download the data yourself. There are instructions in the project README[1] to download the SQLite files I use in the project and I should have documented enough about the schema for you to know what queries to make. I am happy to answer questions via GitHub issues if you have them.

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow#get-the-data-yourself

SkylerASmith · 8 years ago
That makes sense; thanks for your response!
SkylerASmith commented on Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia   sixdegreesofwikipedia.com... · Posted by u/jwngr
jwngr · 8 years ago
Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack:

  * Frontend: React (Create React App)
  * Backend: Python Flask
  * Database: SQLite
  * Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting
  * Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny f1-micro instance)
All the code is open source[1] and I'm happy to answer any questions about building or maintaining it!

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow

SkylerASmith · 8 years ago
This is an awesome tool!

I'm interested in building a fact checker from a wikipedia graph, and your SDOW seems like a great place to start (I'm intending to use an algorithm inspired from researchers at Indiana University http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....). I was wondering if your database has a non-GUI API. Is there a URL or something I can hit to get back JSON or XML as a response?

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