Wikispeedia Wikipedia Navigation Paths
WikipediaAcademicEngagementEntertainmentGamingKnowledge sharingSocial graphUser behavior A Wikispeedia (Wikipedia-based online navigation game) dataset of 4,586 Wikipedia article nodes, 119,767 hyperlinks, and 76,193 human navigation paths, collected by West & Leskovec via the Wikispeedia online game (2008–2012). Each record contains article hyperlink graph (source → target), navigation path sequences, path duration in seconds, path length in clicks, back-click count, and optional difficulty rating (1=easy to 5=brutal). Unique dataset combining a Wikipedia hyperlink graph with 76,193 human navigation paths from an online game where players navigate from a random start article to a target article using only hyperlinks — 67.4% of paths were successfully completed.. Suitable for semantic distance estimation, human wayfinding behavior, hyperlink graph analysis, information foraging, Wikipedia structure research.
Cite this dataset at
wikispeedia.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 4,586 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
wikispeedia- Authors
- West, Robert; Leskovec, Jure
- Year
- 2012
- Source paper
- Human Wayfinding in Information Networks
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2187836.2187920
- License
- Academic use (SNAP — Stanford Network Analysis Project) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 4,586
- Nodes
- 4,586
- Edges
- 119,767 (directed)
- Nodes are
- article
- Edges are
- hyperlink
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- Wikipedia article titles
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008–2012 (2000s, 2010s)
- Tasks
- Rating prediction (regression;
difficulty_rating) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/wikispeedia.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 797.8 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Human wayfinding in information networks
Robert West, J. Leskovec
Book · The Web Conference · 2012
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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}
}
@inproceedings{west2012wikispeedia,
title = {Human Wayfinding in Information Networks},
author = {West, Robert and Leskovec, Jure},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web},
pages = {619--628},
year = {2012},
doi = {10.1145/2187836.2187920}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
West, R., & Leskovec, J. (2012). Wikispeedia Wikipedia Navigation Paths [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187920
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
West, Robert, and Jure Leskovec. Wikispeedia Wikipedia Navigation Paths. 2012, doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187920.