Yesterday, 2013 IEG grantee Jeph Paul started seeing 1000s of hits on his (grant-funded, volunteer-maintained) ReplayEdits tool which visually replays edit histories of Wikipedia articles.
Here's why:
The article itself is not exceptional. It's just cool to see one of our locally grown research prototypes get good press.
Jonathan
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation