https://github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm
generate code_swarm data from Wikipedia page histories & user contributions
https://github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm
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generate code_swarm data from Wikipedia page histories & user contributions
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm
- Owner: jamiew
- Created: 2008-11-07T07:11:21.000Z (over 17 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2008-11-19T04:50:02.000Z (over 17 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-24T23:49:42.532Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: http://jamiedubs.com
- Size: 83 KB
- Stars: 25
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README
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README
Wikiswarm
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Generates code_swarm event logs from the Wikipedia API.
Written to visualize edits to the Barack Obama page:
http://vimeo.com/2177573
Usage
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Get the code_swarm Processing app installed and working:
http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/
http://github.com/rictic/code_swarm/
Generate an activity.xml using wikipedia.rb -- can accept multiple args:
$ ruby wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" > activity.xml
It will also generate a merged log from multiple arguments:
$ ruby wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" "John McCain" "Ron Paul" > activity.xml
And can produce a log of a users' contributions, which fits the few-authors-many-files paradigm better:
$ ruby wikipdia.rb "User:Jamiew" > activity.xml
Config
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The code_swarm.wikipedia.config file is the config I used to generate the Obama video. It has edges turned on (which turns the histogram off) and lower TTL for authors.
In a code_swarm install you can do something like:
$ ruby wikiswarm/wikipedia.rb "Barack Obama" > data/activity.xml
$ ./run.sh wikiswarm/code_swarm.wikipedia.config
See the code_swarm docs for how to save frames and use ffmpeg to generate a video. Then add rap music and enjoy!
Written by Jamie Wilkinson
http://jamiedubs.com
Nov. 6th 2008