[Asis-l] Listen to Wikipedia

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/


WOW !!!


/Gerry


Listen to Wikipedia is a visual and audio illustration of live editing activity on Wikipedia. Tune your headphones or speakers accordingly and enjoy the sound of people writing the free online encyclopedia.


Listen to Wikipedia creates sounds and circles based on a real-time feed of contributions to Wikipedia articles. The pitch of the note corresponds to the size of the edit — a bigger change makes a deeper note and a larger circle. A bell indicates when content is added to the encyclopedia and a string sound indicates when content is removed. Edits by unregistered contributors are marked with green circles and edits by automated bots are marked with purple circles. Occasionally, you may hear a chord welcoming the newest user who registers and joins the project.


Go ahead, make some noise by editing Wikipedia!


This project is a follow up to the Recent Changes Map visualization, which displays edits by unregistered users around the world. Both the Recent Changes Map and Listen to Wikipedia are based on Wikipedia’s live public data feed. Source code and additional information about this project are available on github. Listen to Wikipedia was inspired by and partially based on Listen to Bitcoin by Maximillian Laumeister [snip]


Source and Link Available Via

http://sensory-information-navigation.blogspot.com/2013/07/listen-to-wikipedia.html


BTW: Please also visit my web page from 1998


_The Next WAVe(sm): Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases_


http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Wave.htm


Do click on the hotlink for "I Wish They All Could be California Girls"


and also visit


_Points of View: Conventional and ‘Neo-Conventional’ Access and Navigation in Digital Collections_


http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/PointsOfView.pdf


and


_As the World (Wide Web) Turns: Resources at Iowa State_


http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07clips.html#GERRY


Regards,


Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University

152 Parks Library

Ames IA 50011


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