How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline

Re:How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing ... by NickKitchen on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:09PM (#8597090)

The need is too great to have the service that wikipedia provides, if people are becoming less willing to keep it accurate then that is interesting. If people are consistently finding inaccurate or uninformative articles then they will search for their information somewhere else

I found this page where you can listen to the 'sound of wikipedia', basically a different guitar string is plucked at a different pitch when certain changes are made to wikipedia articles. It is pretty cool in the sense that it shows a lot of changes are being made, however you are able to see and hear the amount of changes made by bots, which is surprisingly few

http://listen.hatnote.com/#fr,en

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Re:How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing ... by avivo on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:59PM (#8597437)

That link is great! Watching the page gives you a much more visceral sense of how wikipedia actually works, and ~all the things in the world that people might care about. Click "about" to read the key. (e.g. purple blobs are bots)

It is also especially fascinating to watch during a time with realtime news you care about. I've seen edits to Rosetta and Philae while just watching briefly!

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Re:How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing ... by Springtime on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @07:38PM (#8599297)

This is beautiful.

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