Wiki History

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Participants: Michael Murtaugh

This project uses the scrape function of Pattern in order to collect the entire edit history of an article on Wikipedia. This prototype looks at the page about 'War on terror'. Each node represents a moment in the timeline and displays the different corrections made when one clicks on it.

This project pushes the scraping function to its limits, as it does not take into account while collecting the data, that these are part of to a permanent flux of changes.

Wiki History in action.