Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
Good ideas. Although I'm not sure how much of that I can glean from the IRC messages without starting to hammer on the Wikipedia APIs. //Ed On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also like to see another layer of color-coding - background shading based on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread lior gimel
A separate column for bot edits could be nice too. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Good ideas. Although I'm not sure how much of that I can glean from the IRC messages without starting to hammer on the Wikipedia APIs. //Ed On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
Wow, thanks Ward. You made my professional career :-) Major props to node.js, redis and socket.io. I really just put the lego pieces together. It feels like the tools are getting better and better some days. (he says as he tunes the TCP stack on his little linode VPN to keep up with the traffic

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Sage Ross
Really solid! This looks like the new go-to visualization for demonstrating the pace of changes on Wikipedia. One feature you might consider adding to it would be the option to just see the stream from one language. Another thing that would be good, in my opinion, would be to replace the flags

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread R.Stuart Geiger
Yes, this is amazing, thanks for making it! It's great that it shows bot edits in a different color, as most people just tend to filter them out. This definitely will be my go-to visualization for presentations, both about Wikipedia generally and about bots. Stuart Geiger On Thu, Jun 16, 2011

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Congratulations; the next step would be to let choose which language versions (or other Wikimedia projects) you want to have included? Kind regards Ziko 2011/6/16 fox fo...@anche.no: Il 16/06/2011 06:40, Ed Summers ha scritto: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Goran Milovanovic
This is a b s o l u t e l y amazing. Cheers, Goran On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello, Congratulations; the next step would be to let choose which language versions (or other Wikimedia projects) you want to have included? Kind regards

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Fancy options: - Choose individual Projects [just look at wiktionary, for instance] - Choose a color scheme or audio scheme to go with it [ rcbirds comes to mind :) ] - Add small languages - Include or ignore bots, period On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Ed Summers 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 Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector