On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
That's pretty cool -- and having the source all
ready to be shared on github
is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build
real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting
some really cool innovation.
Thanks!
I'd love to see some more active visualization
that also include images, and
if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the
same pages that could be super killer. :)
By images did you mean images uploaded to the commons, or hitting the
API to get an image associated with the page? Or both? I like that
idea of showing interactions between people working on the same pages.
Since I'm already using redis this might not be too hard to do. I'll
have to think about it a little. I also liked SJ's idea of a three
column display: all edits, edits >= +-100 characters, edits >= +-1000
characters. Although I'm not sure about the delay part.
As noted in this thread already, use of flags to
represent languages can be
problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a
fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that
estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep
em in mind!
Ok, I've switched to using the character language code, and increased
the number of language channels it is monitoring to 36.
//Ed