Thanks, Pine, for flagging this up. I came across it a few years ago when I was thinking of doing something similar---not to detect news in my case, but simply to highlight what was popular in different language editions as a way to possibly increase multilingual editing/consumption. My research went a different direction, but I still think that would be a nice extension (i.e., lists of trending articles by language/region) that could alert Wikipedians to "hot/trending" articles in other languages that quite possibly do not exist in their first language. I think it could be a nice tie in with the beta translation tool, the MIT Media Lab work on serendipity, and/or the Omnipedia-related work. I am very open to working on this idea with others if anyone is interested.

Cheers, Scott

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:

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

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