Wikipedia Vision

We wanted to use this post to draw attention to an interesting project that maps anonymous Wikipedia edits in almost real-time. The project extracts data from Wikipedia's recent changes page, geolocates the IP addresses and plugs everything into the Google Maps API. So, for example, in at the moment the screenshot below was taken, somebody in Newcastle, England was editing the rather extensive article on the list of Desperate Housewives characters.

Be warned: you can spend a long time being mesmorised by random Wikipedia edits flashing around the world.