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One of the best uses of Wikipedia I've witnessed in years!
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This is limited to article edits, isn't it? I imagine it would sound a lot different if it included edits to talk pages, and to project pages such as AN/I.
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Listen to Wikipedia
Brian Anderson, Motherboard: This real-time sonification of Wikipedia's change feed will make you weep
Erm ... it's about this: http://listen.hatnote.com/
Personally, I think the sound effects could be tweaked: to reflect the various spelling errors, vandalism, misrepresentations, unsourced defamation, screaming at ANI, etc., along with the good or at least indifferent edits.
The result ought to be a little more cacophonic and startling, but there you go. It's all good. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Erm ... it's about this: http://listen.hatnote.com/
Personally, I think the sound effects could be tweaked: to reflect the various spelling errors, vandalism, misrepresentations, unsourced defamation, screaming at ANI, etc., along with the good or at least indifferent edits.
The result ought to be a little more cacophonic and startling, but there you go. It's all good. Zzzzzzzzzz.
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Ha! Was thinking much the same thing.. I reckon various farmyard animal noises would be most appropriate.HRIP7 wrote:Brian Anderson, Motherboard: This real-time sonification of Wikipedia's change feed will make you weep
Erm ... it's about this: http://listen.hatnote.com/
Personally, I think the sound effects could be tweaked: to reflect the various spelling errors, vandalism, misrepresentations, unsourced defamation, screaming at ANI, etc., along with the good or at least indifferent edits.
The result ought to be a little more cacophonic and startling, but there you go. It's all good. Zzzzzzzzzz.
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Listen To Wikipedia Brings Music To Page Edits
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http://www.webpronews.com/listen-to-wik ... ts-2013-08
http://www.webpronews.com/listen-to-wik ... ts-2013-08
The idea of Wikipedia does not necessarily produce Zen-like feelings. A good resource for quick research, or a place to catch up on missed story arcs, perhaps, but tranquility is not the first thing that pops into your head. Especially in a world where Wikipedia entry defacement and manipulation is a very real thing. However, thanks to the efforts of the “Listen to Wikipedia” project, you can get closer to Zen whenever someone edits a particular entry.
Simply enough, the project, which was created by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, plays soothing, ambient-style music whenever a Wikipedia pages is edited.
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Re: Listen To Wikipedia Brings Music To Page Edits
Mods, I hope that Outsider's note could be added to the existing thread about listening to Wikipedia as music.
Which might then be merged into the other thread about listening to Wikipedia as music.
Which might then be merged into the other thread about listening to Wikipedia as music.
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Re: Listen to Wikipedia
"Listen to Wikipedia" now mentioned on the dramaboard: Wikipedia:ANI#Special:Contributions.2F99.181.135.238 (T-H-L). Page-hits will not doubt go up.
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Re: Listen to Wikipedia
Serious subjects get musical tones, popular culture cruft gets abrasive noise, volume correlated to number of total edits.Smiley wrote:Ha! Was thinking much the same thing.. I reckon various farmyard animal noises would be most appropriate.HRIP7 wrote:Brian Anderson, Motherboard: This real-time sonification of Wikipedia's change feed will make you weep
Erm ... it's about this: http://listen.hatnote.com/
Personally, I think the sound effects could be tweaked: to reflect the various spelling errors, vandalism, misrepresentations, unsourced defamation, screaming at ANI, etc., along with the good or at least indifferent edits.
The result ought to be a little more cacophonic and startling, but there you go. It's all good. Zzzzzzzzzz.
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The Song of Wikipedia
"Listen to Wikipedia" has another thread on this sites, but the Search function can't locate it for me.
Someone turned Wikipedia into a beautiful song
by Adam Epstein, Quartz, 11 November 2014 linkhttp://qz.com/294781/someone-turned-wik ... iful-song/[/link]
Someone turned Wikipedia into a beautiful song
by Adam Epstein, Quartz, 11 November 2014 linkhttp://qz.com/294781/someone-turned-wik ... iful-song/[/link]
There is no such thing as Randomness (T-H-L).Everyone’s favorite internet encyclopedia, it turns out, makes some incredibly soothing music when translated into sound. Mahmoud Hashemi and Stephen LaPorte‘s project Listen to Wikipedia converts the edits that people make to Wikipedia pages into sounds that, remarkably, synthesize perfectly. The result is an unlikely orchestra of bells and strings, and you can listen to it for hours. This is how the site works:
[... I don't care how it works ...]
Listen to Wikipedia is open-source and collects its data in real-time from Wikimon [linkhttps://github.com/hatnote/wikimon[/link]]. [...] There is a strange order and rhythm to the music of Wikipedia. It sounds almost intentional. Hashemi and LaPorte, of course, designed the notes to be pleasing and make sense musically, but they still come across as if scored by a composer—not generated by a series of random, unconnected edits.
Who knew someone editing the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Wikipedia page could be so beautiful?
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Wikipedia Edits Make Relaxing Music
by Lily Hay Newman, Slate, 11 November 2014 linkhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... shemi.html[/link]
by Lily Hay Newman, Slate, 11 November 2014 linkhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... shemi.html[/link]
It seems like Wikipedia editing involves a lot of drama, between eliminating promotional material, adding important facts, and cleaning up after someone adds "penis" to a bunch of entries about antique furniture. But the sound of Wikipedia is surprisingly mellow and relaxing. Stephen LaPorte, legal counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation, and Mahmoud Hashemi, a developer at eBay, have a blog called {{Hatnote}}, where they post projects, especially ones related to Wikipedia. Their Listen to Wikipedia tool turns changes on the service into sounds. [...] Originally posted over the summer, the project surfaced on Hacker News and Gizmodo today, probably because everyone needs some calming music to keep them going at work. And Listen to Wikipedia is open-source in case you ever want to build on it.
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Re: The Song of Wikipedia
Crowd sourcing - as old as the music of the spheres.
Evidently the trick is not to focus on any one page for long, or there would be deafening silence (no edits) or only bells (a personal essay) or only strings (a deletionist at work). An edit war might be worth listening to for a while but it would not sound so mystical or oriental as this transcendental-meditation-as-you-sleep stuff here, created out of global edits:
http://listen.hatnote.com
Good therapy for all ex-Wikipedians. Thanks guys.
Evidently the trick is not to focus on any one page for long, or there would be deafening silence (no edits) or only bells (a personal essay) or only strings (a deletionist at work). An edit war might be worth listening to for a while but it would not sound so mystical or oriental as this transcendental-meditation-as-you-sleep stuff here, created out of global edits:
http://listen.hatnote.com
Good therapy for all ex-Wikipedians. Thanks guys.
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Merged topics together.
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