neverendingo made a nice video of
userbase.kde.org activity with
CodeSwarm's WikiSwarm, visualizing mainly translation activity thanks to
the Translate extension:
http://vimeo.com/56486573
https://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/wiki/GeneratingAVideo
With about 300k edits and a few namespaces (and a bot) filtered out, he
got a 28 MiB log file and it took 2 days with 24 threads to generate.
(There's also
https://github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm/ for single pages,
using the API.)
Is someone willing to play with this to make some nice videos for our
Wikimedia projects? Maybe some smaller wikis to start with, but en.wiki
could be feasible with enough CPU power,
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20121201/enwiki-20121201-stub-meta-histor…
(which I hope would be enough to import in MySQL?) is 37 GiB and the
activity log could be about 50.
Nemo