The "Wikipedia live monitor" tool was designed by Thomas Steiner
<http://research.google.com/pubs/author39477.html>, an engineer of Google
Germany, with the intention of identifying breaking news stories. This tool
was mentioned in the *Signpost *in 2013
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/In_the_media>
but this is the first that I can recall seeing it, and it's not in my
mailing list archives so I'm forwarding the links in case list subscribers
are interested.
https://wikipedia-live-monitor.herokuapp.com/
https://twitter.com/wikilivemon
Pine