Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles

Yikes! This has been a revelation. I had never realized that such a large portion of the edits are malevolent. Within the first couple of minutes of using it, I saw someone replace a useful citation URL by a link to Facebook, a few instances of people inserting random words, etc.

I wonder if Wikipedia has an automated way of dealing with this.

Ha. I actually submitted a same demo 24 hours prior to your posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688411. At first I was mildly irritated, thinking that someone rehashed what I cooked up, but after looking at your repo, I see that you guys have been playing around with this for a few weeks, so - hooray for simultaneous discovery! :) Anyway, I really do like the rendering you guys have going on. One other thing you can do is hit the Wikipedia API to extract out the "coordinates" property for the page that was updated and show that. Make sure to change any page titles from "Talk/<Page>" to "<Page>" to pull out more relevant changes.

this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?

This is very cool. It reminds me a bit of the "Watch people shop" feature from online bookstore bookdepository.co.uk

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/live

The sort of thing you can just sit and watch for ages.

Something almost identical to this was posted 2 or 3 days ago. I can't seem find to it now, but if I do I'll be sure to link it since maybe you and the other author would be interested in chatting.

It'd be nice to see the Edit summary of each edit.

This is so cool, love it.