[HN Gopher] Wikipedia Recent Changes Map
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Wikipedia Recent Changes Map
Author : vinnyglennon
Score : 148 points
Date : 2022-08-30 11:37 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (rcmap.hatnote.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (rcmap.hatnote.com)
| EGreg wrote:
| We have a visualization like this for our own project. It
| actually involves a 3D globe you can rotate and explore and it is
| mobile friendly. You can see it here:
|
| https://qbix.com/ecosystem
|
| Click on the globe and explore different countries. You see those
| circles? They represent people using our apps around the world!
| The Wikipedia example gave me a lot more ideas though.
|
| It hit me, any project could use this. We could make it a widget
| that people install on their own sites, and feed it with pings.
| The location is determined from the IP or fuzzed location from
| what people voluntarily enter in their app for other reasons.
|
| Would love feedback and if anyone wants this on THEIR site for
| whatever app or site you currently own, I'll give it to you. Just
| comment here and tell me how to reach out.
| slugiscool99 wrote:
| It's pretty crazy how much of these edits are low quality, false,
| or just vandalism. Very impressive how the organization has been
| able to maintain such high quality information despite the
| general public.
| Cd00d wrote:
| In the couple minutes I watched I was surprised that almost every
| edit I saw was either a sporting event or popular media (bands,
| albums, celebrities). I would have expected more diversity in
| changes especially considering that current state of the world
| and politics. The only update I noticed from the Ukraine site was
| from Kyiv and was a pop-band.
| gzer0 wrote:
| Could be users farming reputation. Interesting observation.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I'd wager it just reflects the most approachable, easy edits.
|
| Imagine tweaking the page of your favorite Netflix show vs.
| making an edit to Covid-19 or Ukraine/Russia pages.
| lrpe wrote:
| This website doesn't let me use my browsers back button.
| mrweasel wrote:
| Works extremely well in Firefox.
| stelonix wrote:
| I'd really like to see the edits from american, ukrainian,
| russian and pretty much any balkan country from 1 february to
| today. Now that would be very interesting.
| kemayo wrote:
| Although cool, this is something with a limited lifespan --
| Wikipedia actually plans to break the ability to do this by
| masking IPs even for anonymous users. See:
| https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancem...
| [deleted]
| Thomashuet wrote:
| The title is misleading, I expected to see a map of the changes
| from the last hour/day/week/month but you just get a blank map at
| first. And then dots appear but they disappear after just a few
| dozen seconds which is not enough time to visualize any trend.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Misleading is a bit of a harsh judgment to pass when it's
| simply not what you expected; is that down to the title, or
| down to your own expectations?
| vehementi wrote:
| I'd describe this as a "live map" not a "recent map"
|
| Certainly not worthy of being called "misleading" but I would
| say it's misnamed
| netsharc wrote:
| I was wondering if they meant a map of topics and recent edits.
| E.g. recent edits of US politicians' pages. I came, I saw the
| slow updates, and I didn't even stay long enough to see that
| those entries disappear.
|
| Trivia: Just before Sarah Palin was named John McCain's running
| mate, there were plenty of edits to her Wikipedia page...
| guywithahat wrote:
| It seems weird to me that the dot disappears; wouldn't you want
| to see a heat map over time? It's a cool site which clearly
| just exists for the novelty of it but still, it seems weird to
| add a feature that makes the product worse
| pr0zac wrote:
| Dunno if I'd call it a product really.
|
| It is an open source project though so feel free to fork it
| and make the change you're suggesting! Pretty sure doing so
| would just involve removing the call to .animate() that
| starts on line 238 in https://github.com/hatnote/rcmap/blob/m
| aster/static/main.js#...
| wlkr wrote:
| This is very cool! I've spotted some edge cases after watching
| edits for a while. If the IP lookup fails the user's location is
| 'undefined' and they get placed in the top left of the map,
| presumably at (0, 0). There's also a mismatch between supported
| location. Could not highlight country:
| undefined main.js:259:41 Could not highlight country:
| Guernsey
| burkesquires wrote:
| There used to be a project that could track all the changes made
| to a wiki page...great tool...wish it still existed... Was and
| would be very telling who is making changes to an article! Here
| is a Wired article about it: https://www.wired.com/2007/08/wiki-
| tracker/
| ISL wrote:
| The edit-rate is perhaps lower than I expected? Feels like
| ~7-15/minute at 8-ish am Eastern time.
| TimGremalm wrote:
| "When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is
| identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are
| translated to users' approximate geographic location.
| Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only
| 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from
| unregistered users. Edits by registered users do not have
| associated IP information, so the map actually represents only
| a small portion of the total edit activity on Wikipedia."
| kubanczyk wrote:
| s/unregistered/not logged in/
|
| Registered users often don't bother with logging in.
| howenterprisey wrote:
| I wouldn't say that's a common practice.
| 3pt14159 wrote:
| I log in. Mostly for nostalgia, (I started the resilience
| wikipedia page and still regret doing it without an
| account!) but also for skipping the annoying pledge
| banners.
| prolyxis wrote:
| I log in mostly for the custom CSS.
| petee wrote:
| I'm not sure thats true since it's a policy violation
| (without proper disclosure) that is fairly regularly
| enforced when found
| archon1410 wrote:
| not really. logging out to do certain things is a
| violation, but simply editing logged out by itself is not
| a violation. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
| Sockpuppetry#Legitim...
| remram wrote:
| I log in, mostly so my IP doesn't get put on blast in the
| log.
| chronogram wrote:
| I always log in to edit, then log out.
| vr000m wrote:
| Reminds me if the work from @lkozma in 2007,
| http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/
| humanistbot wrote:
| This is just for people who edit without logging in, which
| publicly saves the edit as your IP address. The overwhelming
| majority of people edit Wikipedia from an account.
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