Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
This thread is pretty old, and what I'm going to say is hardly research worthy, but I thought I'd mention that I recently made the wikistream background image change based on uploads to the Wikimedia Commons :-) http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/ If you try it out you might have to wait for a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-10-15 Thread Fae
It makes the trends page unreadable. Could you add a white underlay to the tabulated text so it does not become obscured by a changing unpredictable background? Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags ___

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-10-15 Thread Ed Summers
Just fixed that, thanks! //Ed On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: It makes the trends page unreadable. Could you add a white underlay to the tabulated text so it does not become obscured by a changing unpredictable background? Cheers, Fae --

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ed Summers, 22/06/2011 12:14: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Dmitry Chichkov wrote: You may want to take a look at the wpcvn.com - it also displays realtime stream (filtered)... Oh wow, maybe I can shut mine off now :-) Looks like the opposite happened. Nemo

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-08-17 Thread Dmitry Chichkov
Just verified, it is back up. And actual changes are also coming through [filtered by negative user ratings (calculated using some pretty old wikipedia dump)]. -- Best, Dmitry On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Dmitry Chichkov dchich...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm... Somebody actually visited the site.

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-22 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Dmitry Chichkov dchich...@gmail.com wrote: You may want to take a look at the wpcvn.com - it also displays realtime stream (filtered)... Oh wow, maybe I can shut mine off now :-) //Ed ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-21 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: - there's a typo in the dropdown menu (All Wikpedias) fixed, thanks! - you should probably set a min-width for the control panel - when I move the slide to values greater than 0 the text is wrapped, no

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-21 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: min-width now works as expected, but the wrapped text issue is still there in all three browsers Ok I made the deltaControl a bit bigger. It looks fine in my Chrome and Firefox (on Linux). If it is still a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-20 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Jyothis, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Can we plan for a few filter options for name spaces, time zones,  IP edits vs non IP edits, for IP edits, may be geolocation based IP activism on a mao, Also may be languages grouped by continent (may be tie

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-19 Thread Jyothis E
Ed, Can we plan for a few filter options for name spaces, time zones, IP edits vs non IP edits, for IP edits, may be geolocation based IP activism on a mao, Also may be languages grouped by continent (may be tie with timezone) etc? Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net My Malayalam

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-18 Thread Ed Summers
Hi SJ, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Without changing the concept or algorithm much, I'd like to see a three column version, with the left-most column being for all edits -- with speed smoothed out over time (time delay 30 seconds, average it out); the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
Good ideas. Although I'm not sure how much of that I can glean from the IRC messages without starting to hammer on the Wikipedia APIs. //Ed On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also like to see another layer of color-coding - background shading based on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread lior gimel
A separate column for bot edits could be nice too. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Good ideas. Although I'm not sure how much of that I can glean from the IRC messages without starting to hammer on the Wikipedia APIs. //Ed On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM,

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ed Summers
Wow, thanks Ward. You made my professional career :-) Major props to node.js, redis and socket.io. I really just put the lego pieces together. It feels like the tools are getting better and better some days. (he says as he tunes the TCP stack on his little linode VPN to keep up with the traffic

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Sage Ross
Really solid! This looks like the new go-to visualization for demonstrating the pace of changes on Wikipedia. One feature you might consider adding to it would be the option to just see the stream from one language. Another thing that would be good, in my opinion, would be to replace the flags

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread R.Stuart Geiger
Yes, this is amazing, thanks for making it! It's great that it shows bot edits in a different color, as most people just tend to filter them out. This definitely will be my go-to visualization for presentations, both about Wikipedia generally and about bots. Stuart Geiger On Thu, Jun 16, 2011

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Congratulations; the next step would be to let choose which language versions (or other Wikimedia projects) you want to have included? Kind regards Ziko 2011/6/16 fox fo...@anche.no: Il 16/06/2011 06:40, Ed Summers ha scritto: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Goran Milovanovic
This is a b s o l u t e l y amazing. Cheers, Goran On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello, Congratulations; the next step would be to let choose which language versions (or other Wikimedia projects) you want to have included? Kind regards

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Fancy options: - Choose individual Projects [just look at wiktionary, for instance] - Choose a color scheme or audio scheme to go with it [ rcbirds comes to mind :) ] - Add small languages - Include or ignore bots, period On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Piotr Konieczny
Ed Summers wrote: I've been looking to experiment with node.js lately and created a little toy webapp that displays updates from the major language wikipedias in real time: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org Perhaps like you, I've often tried to convey to folks in the GLAM sector

Re: [Wiki-research-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-15 Thread Samuel Klein
Without changing the concept or algorithm much, I'd like to see a three column version, with the left-most column being for all edits -- with speed smoothed out over time (time delay 30 seconds, average it out); the middle one being edits changing over 100 chars that aren't immediately reverted