Yes, this is amazing, thanks for making it! It's great that it shows bot edits in a different color, as most people just tend to filter them out. This definitely will be my go-to visualization for presentations, both about Wikipedia generally and about bots.
Stuart Geiger
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Really solid! This looks like the new go-to visualization for demonstrating the pace of changes on Wikipedia.
One feature you might consider adding to it would be the option to just see the stream from one language.
Another thing that would be good, in my opinion, would be to replace the flags with something like color-coded language abbreviations: en, de, and so on.
Thanks much for this. I've already added it to the Wikimedia Education Portal as a resource that teachers can use for getting students excited about Wikipedia when they are running Wikipedia assignments in class.
-Sage Ross
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Wow, thanks Ward. You made my professional career :-)
Major props to node.js, redis and socket.io. I really just put the lego pieces together. It feels like the tools are getting better and better some days. (he says as he tunes the TCP stack on his little linode VPN to keep up with the traffic ...)
//Ed
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ward Cunningham ward@c2.com wrote:
I've written this app several times using technology from text-to-speech to quartz-composer. I have to tip my hat to Ed for doing a better job than I ever did and doing it in a way that he makes look effortless. Kudos to Ed for sharing both the page and the software that produces it. You made my morning. -- Ward
On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
Actually re-reading this again, I definitely can grab the number of characters in the change from the IRC update ... something like this 3 column display could work.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Without changing the concept or algorithm much, I'd like to see a three column version, with the left-most column being for all edits -- with speed smoothed out over time (time delay 30 seconds, average it out); the middle one being edits changing over 100 chars that aren't immediately reverted (time-delayed 1 min?), and the left column being edits changing over 1,000 chars that aren't quickly reverted (time-delayed 2 minutes?), and aren't by bots or huggle.
SJ
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time:
http://wikistream.inkdroid.org
Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) just how much Wikipedia is actively edited. GLAM institutions are increasingly interested in "digital curation" and I've sometimes displayed the IRC activity at workshops to demonstrate the sheer number of people (and bots) that are actively engaged in improving the content there...with the hopes of making the Wikipedia platform part of their curation strategy.
Anyhow, I'd be interested in any feedback you might have about wikistream.
//Ed
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