Comments on: Live anonymous edits to Wikipedia on Google maps

Live anonymous edits to Wikipedia on Google maps

stbalbach — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:25:27 -0800

Live anonymous edits to the English Wikipedia on a Google map in real-time. (The FAQ)

By: ORthey

ORthey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:27:37 -0800

Man, this keeps crashing my Safari. Anyone else?

By: DU

DU — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:29:45 -0800

The Lifecycle of a New Internet Technology: 1) Look, this is cool! 2) Look, I'm creating content! 3) Look, I can edit the content you created! 4) Look!

By: greasepig

greasepig — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:29:59 -0800

I love this.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:31:38 -0800

This is at first a kind of interesting technical mashup that once you see and get it, quickly becomes boring. But if one asks why certain types of edits are being made from certain places, it becomes an exercise in global knowledge. For example why is someone from Saudi Arabia editing about a village in India on the English Wikipedia? India is the most populated English speaking nation in the world, and there are many Indian migrant workers in the Middle East.

By: dead_

dead_ — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:39:06 -0800

Are we still editing wikipedia?

By: aught

aught — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:47:11 -0800

Wow. I just watched someone in (near-)real time in Winnpeg add the phrase "over ;arge penis's" to a heading in an article about "Sweatshop controversy". LOLWIKIZ

By: CautionToTheWind

CautionToTheWind — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:50:44 -0800

Are we still bashing wikipedia?

By: danb

danb — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:31:35 -0800

If Cory Doctorow was a search engine, this post would be SEO spam.

By: bru

bru — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:31:37 -0800

Mesmerizing. And very cool. Thanks, stbalbach.

By: kickback

kickback — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:54:40 -0800

wow. Just when I was starting to get bored of the lame vandal edits, someone in Illinois goes and gives Nestor Kirchner the nickname "Google Eye".

By: kittyprecious

kittyprecious — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:38:37 -0800

Nazca Lines! Macrophage! WWE Armageddon!

By: bluishorange

bluishorange — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:17:43 -0800

Ooh! Someone just a few miles away from me just edited Plessy v. Ferguson. Let's see what they added!

SCREW BITCHES GET MOPNEY

This thing is depressing.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:20:48 -0800

Yes, quite fascinating. Thanks for the post stbalbach. Wikipedia in 2001.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:42:24 -0800

I love how often I see a little balloon indicating that someone has edited an anime related article.

By: marginaliana

marginaliana — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:59:31 -0800

Yeah, I've got to go with depressing also. So much vandalism and "your favorite hockey player sucks."

By: aerotive

aerotive — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:10:12 -0800

In addition to the vandalism are a lot of plain old bad edits. Lots of fractured grammar especially. These sorts of edits are reverted pretty quickly though.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:31:37 -0800

Why isn't the actual change in the balloon? It's in the RSS feed; it doesn't seem like it'd be a lot of work to scrape. But anyway, cool idea.

By: sevenyearlurk

sevenyearlurk — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:11:27 -0800

Odd, I just went back to the site and it's showing me the same series of edits as it did the first time. Is it real-time, or is it memorex?

By: finite

finite — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:45:41 -0800

It is funny how the so-called anonymous edits are the only ones that are geolocatable !

By: finite

finite — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:47:34 -0800

Except to the 20 or so of the ~1300 admins who have the special CheckUser ability.