2009/12/18 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
Does anybody else have an article they'd like to explore in this way? Or feedback on the Celilo Falls overview?
I'd love to do something similar! Are there other tools that can be used to delve into the article history? Doing something like this for one of the larger and most-viewed articles on Wikipedia would be a major undertaking.
Of course, there are past hits. Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Movie.
http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html http://jonudell.net/udell/2005-01-22-heavy-metal-umlaut-the-movie.html
"Today's screencast traces the evolution of Wikipedia's Heavy metal umlaut page. I noticed it when both Tim Bray and David Weinberger pointed to it, but the page actually dates back to April 15, 2003.
"It's a wonderfully silly topic, but my point is somewhat serious too. The 8.5-minute screencast turns the change history of this Wiki page into a movie, scrolls forward and backward along the timeline of the document, and follows the development of several motifs. Creating this animated narration of a document's evolution was technically challenging, but I think it suggests interesting possibilities."
- d.