https://github.com/waldyrious/wikispeed

A visualization of the rate of edits to Wikipedia in various languages.
https://github.com/waldyrious/wikispeed

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A visualization of the rate of edits to Wikipedia in various languages.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/waldyrious/wikispeed
• Owner: waldyrious
• License: other
• Created: 2016-02-01T09:38:09.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: gh-pages
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-10T13:17:55.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T16:45:05.412Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: highcharts, statistics, visualization, websockets, wikipedia
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://waldyrious.net/wikispeed/
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# WikiSpeed

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[validation-img]: https://img.shields.io/badge/w3c-valid_xhtml5-blue.svg

A visualization of the rate of edits to Wikipedia in various languages.

This is essentially a replica of the original **[Wikipulse](https://web.archive.org/web/20220413111810/http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com)** (now defunct),

created in 2011 by [Ed Summers](http://mith.umd.edu/people/person/ed-summers/),

but using the new ~~[Recent Changes stream](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recent_changes_stream)

over [websockets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket),~~

[EventStreams service](https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams_HTTP_Service)

for server-sent events (SSE)

via the [EventSource API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventSource),

instead of the old

[Recent Changes IRC feeds](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Recent_changes).

This allows for a more convenient and completely server-less setup.

Besides the backend change, a functional difference from Wikipulse

is that WikiSpeed uses a logarithmic scale in the gauge charts,

which allows for a better visualization of the wide range of editing rates

of the various projects. (See https://github.com/edsu/wikipulse/issues/13)

**Update**: The original Wikipulse is no longer available since Heroku discontinued their free tier in November 2022.

## Credits / thanks

- Ed Summers for [Wikipulse](https://web.archive.org/web/20220413111810/http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/)

- Krinkle for the [RCFeed demo code](http://codepen.io/Krinkle/pen/laucI/) (no longer used)

- Andrew Otto for the [EventStreams demo code](https://codepen.io/ottomata/pen/VKNyEw/)

- WMF devs for providing the [RCFeed](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recent_changes_stream) service

- HighCharts for their wonderful [charts library](http://www.highcharts.com/)

## See also

You might be interested in these similar projects

that also visualize real-time edits to Wikimedia projects:

- [Wikistream](http://wikistream.wmflabs.org/)

- [Listen to Wikipedia](http://listen.hatnote.com/)

- [Recent Changes map](http://rcmap.hatnote.com/) and [Wikipedia Vision](http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/)

- [Wikipedia and Wikidata Realtime Edit Stats](https://web.archive.org/web/20210601185835/https://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/)