A New Way to Waste Time with Wikipedia
Every so often when I need to look something up on Wikipedia, it turns into a multi-hour click-fest that always makes me feel a bit smarter and a little sad. That is the beauty of Wikipedia, it isn’t so much about finding what you are looking for as it is finding all the things you never knew you needed to know. But, what if you don’t know what you are looking for in the first place? That is where Wikipediavision comes in, it is a real-time Google Map/Wikipedia mashup that shows you what pages are currently getting updated, and where geographically the update is happening. While watching it, it is amazing to note how often Wikipedia is updated and all the weird topics that come up that I never knew I needed to know about.
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