wikimine

Inspiration

We were inspired by news article exposing anonymous editing of controversial wikipedia pages by conflicted interest. Notable examples include members of Congress and the NYPD.

How it works

Query wikipedia for revision histories
Parse the results for anonymous ip addresses
Do geo lookups on those ip addresses
Plot the results on our site

Features

Wikipedia page suggestions
Filter by time
Multiple pages displayed at once
View diffs
Group revisions by location
On demand data downloads
Zooming and panning

Challenges I ran into

Sleep dep. Bugs. Merge conflicts. Apache.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Maps!

What I learned

Dev Op is a noble profession.

What's next for wikimine

Correlate edits with current events at the time of editing.

Built With

Submitted to

MadHacks Spring 2015

Created by

Front end developer and data vis

Coda Phillips
I explored the backend API's. Build the angular services to query the API's. Configure Apache to act as a proxy for all API calls. Deploy a free ip2geolocation service in docker to avoid rate limiting issues on hosted solutions. Handle DNS setup. Handle all deployment, resource management. Patches and assistance on the front end.

Scott Hendrickson
I dealt mostly with the google maps API and the asynchronous requests

Spex_guy
I worked primarily dealing with our HTML, learning node, and applying some business logic.

Nikhil Jain