New Mapping Alive Edits To Wikipedia

The Hatnote Wikipedia Recent Changes Map is a real-time map of alive edits beingness made to Wikipedia past times unregistered users.

Unregistered users are far to a greater extent than probable to brand incorrect, simulated or spam changes to Wikipedia. Only 15% of the contributions to English linguistic communication Wikipedia are from unregistered users. So the map genuinely represents alone a pocket-size component of the full edit activeness on Wikipedia.


The map reminds me of WikipediaVision, a Google Map of real-time map edits to Wikipedia.

The map displays an data window for each edit, amongst the championship of the article, the summary of the edit (if a summary was given), a link to the changes that were made to the article together with the fourth dimension the edit happened.

Mapping Wikipedia is a projection from TraceMedia together with the Oxford Internet Institute.

Using the Google Maps API Mapping Wikipedia allows you lot to sentiment the geography of all geotagged Wikipedia articles inwards a expose of unlike languages. It tin also practice maps based on the give-and-take count of articles, the appointment created, expose of authors, together with expose of images.

If you lot are interested most how the map was created TraceMedia has provided an outline of the tools used inwards edifice the application. 

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