Wikipedia Hyperlink Growth Network
A Wikipedia (English edition hyperlink growth) dataset of 1,870,709 nodes and 39,953,145 edges, collected by KONECT via Wikipedia XML dumps. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True, temporal: True. Temporal directed network showing how Wikipedia's hyperlink structure grew over time — edges carry Unix timestamps of when links were added.. Suitable for temporal network analysis, knowledge graph evolution, Wikipedia growth modeling.
Cite this dataset at
wikipedia-growth.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,870,709 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
wikipedia-growth- Authors
- Druschel, P.; Mislove, A.
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- Online social networks: measurement, analysis, and applications to distributed information systems
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 1,870,709
- Nodes
- 1,870,709
- Edges
- 39,953,145 (directed)
- Nodes are
- article
- Edges are
- hyperlink
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have 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/wikipedia-growth/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 179.1 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}
}
@book{druschel2009,
title = {Online social networks: measurement, analysis, and applications to distributed information systems},
author = {Druschel, P. and Mislove, A.},
year = {2009},
note = {PhD thesis, Rice Univ., 2009.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Druschel, P., & Mislove, A. (2009). Wikipedia Hyperlink Growth Network [Data set]. https://wikipedia-growth.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Druschel, P., and A. Mislove. Wikipedia Hyperlink Growth Network. 2009, wikipedia-growth.echo.directory/.