Friday, August 7, 2009

Get Live Wikipedia Updates on Google Maps

Need another Web page to check obsessively every 20 seconds? Boy, have I got one for you. I don't usually get too excited about Google Maps mashups, but damned if I can't stop looking at this one, which gives you the location of anonymous updates to Wikipedia. WikipediaVision seems to update every 30 seconds or so, giving you the global locations of the latest anonymous updates, along with the title of the pages being updated.

Someone in Seattle is updating the List of Promotional Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Oh, now someone in Israel is updating the entry for the Fergie song, "Clumsy." A user in Romania, not surprisingly, has a lot riding on the entry for Transylvania. The Howard the Duck entry just got updated in the U.K. Who knew that a user in Canada was so invested in Frasier's minor characters?

Just try to stop looking at this page: I dare you.

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