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November 21, 2004
The Wiki Wars
Was cleaning out my inbox and ran across an interesting Red Herring article.
Apparently "George W. Bush" is the #1 most hotly-contested entry in the Wikipedia, coming in right after "John Kerry", "Jesus", and various sexual slang terms (so I'm not the only one who looks up dirty words in Wikipedia :). The malicous edits have gotten so bad that the pages are on periodic lock-down to prevent vandalism.
On a related note, IBM's History Flow infoviz project aims to visualize the collaborative editing trends of wiki pages. The project is a distant cousin of PNNL's ThemeRiver. It's a highly-evolved adaptation of the "diff" tool used by programmers to compare source code revisions. The History Flow gallery shows just how rich a visualization of a collaboratively-edited document's history can be.
Given the information overload we're all suffering from and the exponential growth of hard drive size, I'm predicting this will be adapted for filesystem exploration before the end of the decade. It'd be great to get a "core sample" of storage trends: using color-coded fault lines to identify accumulation patterns and find files by age.
Posted by Devon at November 21, 2004 10:45 PM
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