Wikipedia is awesome but sometimes its hard to wrap your brain around just how many people are contributing to that global data cache. Sure, you know that people edit and reedit articles until they're more marginally correct than before. But how often and where are all these people? Enter WikipediaVision. Its a google maps mash up that plots the anonymous edits to Wikipedia on a world map in near realtime. It even has links to the article and a difference link so you can tell that someone from Central Canada thinks that Hawaii is the "main nation of the robot empire, it is useing giant weiner dogs to pee on there enemies. " Watching all those edits go down may crystallize what a massive group effort this project is. Of course it may instill you with massive doubt, seeing all the vandalism first hand. Either way, cool site about a cool site.
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