A very interesting article.

The old Drunks and Lampposts Blog used Gephi to look at philosophical influences as given by linkages on the Wikipedia Philosophy project.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120828032838/http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/

I have been looking at this approach to analyse editing of the present Pandemic

https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2021/03/26/wikipedia-encyclopedia-or-the-new-reuters/

John Swains work on Twitter groupings is also relevant.

https://medium.com/@swainjo/ebola-twitter-network-f5f705f03af7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_NiuM1kSQ