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Realtime visualization of Wikipedia edit streams

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Wow, this is really cool. Watch history as its being rewritten! (small wikipedia joke) Now I need something that shows in what category things are being changed (deltas) and then what linkages are being added or removed (connectivity). Lots of ways to go with this.

The speed of the stream of edits makes you realize how traditional encyclopedias have zero chance of competing with Wikipedia with respect to the quantity of information...

Thanks for all the comments! I did give wikistream a hostname, http://wikistream.inkdroid.org which is probably better to try to use than the port 3000 one, since I might end up having to change the port at some point. So if you want to update the link in the title I would appreciate it!

I don't think, as a submitter of the link, I can now edit the link. If it is possible, please someone let me know. I would be happy to oblige.

ok, no worries ... I guess I can probably issue a 301 redirect to get crawlers to update their bookmark...

I also recommend looking at his other visualization, WikiPulse - http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ - also built on node.js.

Holy cow that's fast. I had no idea it was so actively edited, even when you restrict it to >= 100± characters it's still more than one per second. And so many more registered users than anonymous!

In the about page:

>Hopefully wikistream provides a hint of just how active the community is around Wikipedia.

Mission accomplished.

Brilliant! Care to elaborate on the implementation?

Edit: Found some details on the about page http://inkdroid.org:3000/about/ and everything else at https://github.com/edsu/wikistream

Thanks for the interest! I wrote up some high level notes at http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/11/07/an-ode-to-node/ if you want to know a bit more.

Previously:

WikipediaVision (beta). Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time. (http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923946

Neat! But careful, NSFW! The first image to come along the background was of male penis, balls, and anus, hair and all. Perhaps this was because I noticed an article scroll by with the name of male perineum?

Yeah, the images are what are being uploaded to wikimedia commons ... it refreshes every 10 seconds or so, and you might end up with something NSFW...

The stream consists of edits only in major languages on Wikipedia. It doesn't include all the languages in which Wikipedia exists. If such edits are also included, imagine the rate at which new knowledge is being created.

I'm guessing it would look 99.99% identical to these 36 top languages.

Maybe not to three decimal places, but it's true that the top languages do dominate the edits.

See stats.wikimedia.org if you are curious. Here's the table of all edits per wiki.

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm

great socket/node proj, visited earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661457

Wow, there are a lot of people on the Internet now.

This thing froze FF8 on W7 rock solid. Be warned.

cool, all the concepts for this type of stuff i've seen in the past have been very heavy on the browser

this is so incredibly beautiful.

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