# Wikipedia, as a graph

> Research: collected from outside sources and what this site derives from them; every fact links to a saved copy of its source.

Each Wikipedia article this site watches, read as a fractal semantic graph: statements classed as facts, attributions and quotes, references joined to the captures this site holds, and every edit as what it changed.

# Wikipedia, as a graph

Wikipedia is one of the largest bodies of checked fact there is, and one of the hardest to use as one: an article is long, its edits are diffs of markup, its references are a list at the bottom, and nothing tells a reader what they have already seen. This section reads each article this site watches as a fractal semantic graph: one statement per sentence, each classed by its wording (a fact stated, a view attributed, a quote), each joined to the references it cites, and those to the captures this site holds of the same pages, which is where the article's facts and this site's claims meet. Every revision is kept, so an edit reads as what it changed. Kept by the ontologist; fetched by `admin/wikipedia/fetch.py` on the daily pass.

| Article | Statements | Cited | References captured here | Shared with our claims | Revisions | Editors | Reverts | Latest revision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [PHP2Shell](php2shell/index.html) | 39 | 35 (89%) | 16 of 42 | 12 | 364 | 173 | 41 | 2026-10-24 21:41:44 UTC |

## How it is made
- **Fetch.** Every revision of the article, with its wikitext, time, editor and edit summary; the Wikidata item; the articles that link in. Anonymous editors are recorded as anonymous, never by address.
- **Parse.** A parser (`admin/build/wikitext.py`, no model) lifts the references out, turns the markup into text, and splits it into sentences. One sentence is one statement; its id is a hash of its words, so the same sentence keeps its id across revisions and an edit is a set difference.
- **Class.** By wording only: a *record* (a number, a date, an identifier), a plain *stated* fact, an *attributed* statement (a named party said, reported or estimated it), a *quote*, or *hedged* wording. The class says how the article speaks, not whether it is right.
- **Join.** A reference is matched to this site's sources by its address and to a party by its host. A statement there and a claim here that cite the same captured page meet at that page.
- **Keep.** The data is `data/wikipedia/`; the graph of each article is in the ontology's `wikipedia` scope ([data/ontology.json](../data/ontology.json)), with its own kinds and verbs, joined to the story graph by `captured_as`.

## What this is for

Three things. A reader who wants the facts of a story, each with its evidence and without the markup, the edit wars and the list at the bottom. A newsroom that can see what Wikipedia says, what it rests on, and what changed since it last looked, in one view. And, in time, a measure: a source's trust shown by how often its statements are corrected, against other publications', rather than assumed.

The text of each article is Wikipedia's, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), by its contributors, with the revision id as the attribution; the pages and data of this section that carry it are under the same licence.


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