Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
Ok, I've switched to using the character language code, and increased the number of language channels it is monitoring to 36. This is great! Can you please put titles of articles in right-to-left languages (ar, fa, ur, he) in span dir=rtlTITLE/span? Thank you! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace. - T. Moore ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
Very cool. In presentations I usually show the RC, and the click again after few seconds, to show the amount of edits: but this is far better. Thank you. Aubrey 2011/6/16 Ed Summers e...@pobox.com: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) just how much Wikipedia is actively edited. GLAM institutions are increasingly interested in digital curation and I've sometimes displayed the IRC activity at workshops to demonstrate the sheer number of people (and bots) that are actively engaged in improving the content there...with the hopes of making the Wikipedia platform part of their curation strategy. Anyhow, I'd be interested in any feedback you might have about wikistream. //Ed ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a
little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language
wikipedias in real time:
http://wikistream.inkdroid.org
Visiting that URL yields:
An error has occurred: {stack:Error: ECONNREFUSED, Connection
refused\nat Socket._onConnect (net.js:602:18)\nat
IOWatcher.onWritable [as callback]
(net.js:186:12),message:ECONNREFUSED, Connection
refused,errno:111,code:ECONNREFUSED,syscall:connect}
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Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org That's pretty cool -- and having the source all ready to be shared on github is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting some really cool innovation. I'd love to see some more active visualization that also include images, and if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the same pages that could be super killer. :) As noted in this thread already, use of flags to represent languages can be problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep em in mind! -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: That's pretty cool -- and having the source all ready to be shared on github is *super* cool. :D Having good starting points for other people to build real-time displays and visualizations on can be a big help in jumpstarting some really cool innovation. Thanks! I'd love to see some more active visualization that also include images, and if it's possible to show interactions between multiple people working on the same pages that could be super killer. :) By images did you mean images uploaded to the commons, or hitting the API to get an image associated with the page? Or both? I like that idea of showing interactions between people working on the same pages. Since I'm already using redis this might not be too hard to do. I'll have to think about it a little. I also liked SJ's idea of a three column display: all edits, edits = +-100 characters, edits = +-1000 characters. Although I'm not sure about the delay part. As noted in this thread already, use of flags to represent languages can be problematic -- there's a nice overview of the issues here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html On the other hand, flags can be a fine way to represent 'country of origin' in visualizations/reports that estimate where edits are being made from based on IP address etc -- so keep em in mind! Ok, I've switched to using the character language code, and increased the number of language channels it is monitoring to 36. //Ed ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime
I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) just how much Wikipedia is actively edited. GLAM institutions are increasingly interested in digital curation and I've sometimes displayed the IRC activity at workshops to demonstrate the sheer number of people (and bots) that are actively engaged in improving the content there...with the hopes of making the Wikipedia platform part of their curation strategy. Anyhow, I'd be interested in any feedback you might have about wikistream. //Ed ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
