[Wikipedia-l] IBM releases history flow tool

[Erik Zachte]

> once we confirm that a few thousand people using this to
> suck out WP histories won't thrash the servers.

The charts are beautiful. yet I think it would be overdone to generate them
on demand for every article.
After you've seen a few you've seen them all. They give a general impression
of how fluid popular and/or contested articles are, but are too crowded for
detailed analysis.

For me a limited set of pregenerated charts for say 50 selected articles,
refreshed once a month, would be sufficient.


Erik Zachte