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<\/a>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<\/p><\/div>During the recent History of Medicine editathons, I would often open proceedings by introducing people to a rather wonderful website…<\/p>\n
Listen to Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n The website demonstrates all the real-time edits<\/strong> <\/em>occurring on Wikipedia taken from Wikipedia’s ‘recent changes feed’ <\/strong><\/em>and puts it to music (bells for additions, strings for subtractions).<\/p>\n From the website’s own description:<\/p>\n “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. <\/em><\/p>\n Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors<\/a>, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots<\/a>. 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<\/em>.”<\/p>\n 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.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the recent History of Medicine editathons, I would often open proceedings by introducing people to a rather wonderful website… Listen to Wikipedia 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: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,79,82,77,85,78,83,81,84],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anoymous-edits","tag-automated-bots","tag-bells-for-additions","tag-listen-to-wikipedia","tag-pagoda-garden","tag-registered-users","tag-strings-for-subtractions","tag-wiki-community","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}