Listen to Wikipedia

May 9, 2023 8:06 PM

Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed. (English, French, Sanskrit selected - you can choose your own filters).

I stumbled upon this on Tumblr and I fell in love.

Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.

If you aren't hearing much, make sure to toggle 'enable sound' in the top right-ish menu bar.

posted by mephisjo (5 comments total)

Surprisingly pleasant. I wonder how straightforward it would be to hook this up to any given Related Changes / public watchlist feed?
posted by Not A Thing at 8:42 PM on May 9, 2023

Check all the boxes and then walk away and do some dishes. It's like listening to Brian Eno on meth.
posted by not_on_display at 9:14 PM on May 9, 2023 [2 favorites]

And for those who may be hearing impaired, there is also a graphical representation via circles (I assume with diameters representative of size of edit and colour scheme for additions/subtractions).
posted by mephisjo at 9:16 PM on May 9, 2023 [1 favorite]

This is great. I only wish we could get square waves for automated edits and clown horn noises for vandalism reversions
posted by phooky at 4:27 AM on May 10, 2023 [3 favorites]

Developed by mefi's own stop sign

4x previously including the time I had to record it so I could be soothed at work were the firewall blocked the page.
posted by rebent at 5:34 AM on May 10, 2023 [1 favorite]