[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Projects Growth Animated

[Brian]

Very cool! The growth of the smallest wikis seems to be greatly
over-exaggerated on that scale. Wikis with less than 100 articles take up
roughly 30% of the screen real estate and wikis with less than 10k articles
take up more than half.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Erik Zachte <erikzachte at infodisiac.com>
wrote:

> This is a joyful day indeed.
> I would first like to send my best wishes to Angela and Tim for getting
> engaged ☺
> And Erik Moeller did an awesome job pitching Wikimedia at the Sloan
> foundation, congratulations!
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> I met Erik and GerardM two weeks ago, and we discussed all kind of
> interesting things.
> One of the topics we briefly touched was animated web stats, we all knew
> and admired Hans Rosling's wonderful Gapcasts.
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> I figured Wikimedia could benefit from similar stats.
> Of course java or svg would be likely candidates for implementation, but
> both have their pro's and con's.
> Also rather than going back to Hans' (and now Google's) GapMinder, I
> thought to do some experimentation myself.
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> Upcoming html5 promises exciting, albeit not yet standardized, new
> functionality.
> The new canvas element was introduced first in Safari, but Firefox 3 takes
> it a few steps further.
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> So for now my javascript-only 'Wikimedia Projects Growth Animated' runs
> only on Firefox 3 (beta).
> Be assured there is also a recorded 8 Mb Flash file for project Wikipedia.
> The idea is to update these animations automatically from the wikistats
> job.
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> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/Wikistats/
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> Erik Zachte
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