Ganking yet another bit of coolness from
waxy.org. It's animated
Wiki-evolution!!!
You're like,
huh? What are you talking about?
Okay, first for
those not in the know, this
is concerning wikipedia.org. The biggest and most badass
online
encyclopedia on the net.
The thing that makes wikipedia so cool
is
that it's open source, and so ANYONE can update, add to, change, or
delete stuff from the articles in the database. So if you see
an
entry on Transformers and they left your favorite Decepticon,
Soundwave
for instance, you just go into the entry and add it
yourself.
So obviously with a setup like this,
Wikipedia entries are constantly in a state of flux. They're
being changed constantly on the fly. The entry you read on
kung
fu could look completely different after you go back to it again just
5
minutes later.
With all this constant revising, editing,
and adding, Andy Baio of waxy.org put up a challenge for uber geeks to
create a program that would allow someone to watch an animated slide
show of the changes to a Wikipedia entry.
And thus the
ubergeeks responded. Click
here
to see a little screen-cast of the winning program in action, along
with some great voice over commentary by the program's
designer.
