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.
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