Wow, this is really cool. Watch history as its being rewritten! (small wikipedia joke) Now I need something that shows in what category things are being changed (deltas) and then what linkages are being added or removed (connectivity). Lots of ways to go with this.
The speed of the stream of edits makes you realize how traditional encyclopedias have zero chance of competing with Wikipedia with respect to the quantity of information...
Thanks for all the comments! I did give wikistream a hostname, <a href="http://wikistream.inkdroid.org" rel="nofollow">http://wikistream.inkdroid.org</a> which is probably better to try to use than the port 3000 one, since I might end up having to change the port at some point. So if you want to update the link in the title I would appreciate it!
I also recommend looking at his other visualization, WikiPulse - <a href="http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/</a> - also built on node.js.
Holy cow that's fast. I had no idea it was so actively edited, even when you restrict it to >= 100± characters it's still more than one per second. And so many more registered users than anonymous!<p>In the about page:<p>><i>Hopefully wikistream provides a hint of just how active the community is around Wikipedia.</i><p>Mission accomplished.
Brilliant! Care to elaborate on the implementation?<p>Edit:
Found some details on the about page <a href="http://inkdroid.org:3000/about/" rel="nofollow">http://inkdroid.org:3000/about/</a>
and everything else at <a href="https://github.com/edsu/wikistream" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/edsu/wikistream</a>
Previously:<p>WikipediaVision (beta). Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time. (<a href="http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/</a>)<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923946" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923946</a>
Neat! But careful, NSFW! The first image to come along the background was of male penis, balls, and anus, hair and all. Perhaps this was because I noticed an article scroll by with the name of male perineum?
The stream consists of edits only in major languages on Wikipedia. It doesn't include all the languages in which Wikipedia exists.
If such edits are also included, imagine the rate at which new knowledge is being created.