Those of you who use Firefox can try out two new Wikipedia/MediaWiki toys:

http://phiffer.org/projects/wikipedia-animate/ http://gleepglop.com/journal/articles/2005/06/16/wikidiff

Both are methods to animate the history of an article. Both require Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension to add JavaScript to any webpage, to be installed:

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Both are still fairly experimental, but still nifty. The first one loads on every article view, so only enable it when you need it. The second one can be loaded from the history page, and I found it to be generally more reliable.

If this isn't working at all, make sure your little Greasemonkey icon is activated.

This is the result of a little contest by Andy Baio: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/14/automati.shtml

(Oh, and perhaps someone could add this to en:Wikipedia:Tools and similar pages.)

Best,

Erik