WikipediaVision

2007-10-31 00:10:00

Ben Yates wrote about an incredibly awesome page: WikipediaVision. It shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia on a map, in (not quite) real-time. Four minutes ago, someone from Leesburg, VA, USA, made an edit to Architect (Role Variant), which turns out to be one of the types from a personality-type assessment thing. Someone from Russia edited CP/CMS. Someone from Australia edited Australia Square.

It's amazing. It's like watching slideshows of photos people upload to flickr and picasa: mesmerising, although for no reason I can easily discern. In this case, it's just so cool to see people all over the world contributing to Wikipedia--and seeing a lot of people editing articles about local schools and things.

I think that if this were on some TV channel, I might purchase a television in order to watch it. I love it.