![Screen Shot - Listen to Wikipedia By Stephen Laporte (http://listen.hatnote.com/) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2016/03/Screen_Shot_Listen_to_Wikipedia.png)
Screen Shot – Listen to Wikipedia
By Stephen Laporte (http://listen.hatnote.com/) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The website demonstrates all the real-time edits occurring on Wikipedia taken from Wikipedia’s ‘recent changes feed’ and puts it to music (bells for additions, strings for subtractions).
From the website’s own description:
“Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.
Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots. You may see announcements for new users as they join the site, punctuated by a string swell. You can welcome him or her by clicking the blue banner and adding a note on their talk page.”
Anyway, check it out as it is a lovely way of visualising the Wiki community and all the edits occurring around the world. (NB: And it didn’t hurt that it created a zen-like pagoda garden experience for our editors while they busied themselves adding & subtracting to Wiki articles themselves.)