Wikirage is a tool that tracks the entries in the Wikipedia that are getting the most edits over different periods of time.   I started this project to see if I could find an alternative to traffic data for judging Internet trends.

I was very impressed with the results and how they mirror what is going on in popular culture.

Wikirage uses the edit stream on Wikipedia to find out what is hot and trendy in pop culture. The first step in the process is to capture the edit stream.  Wikipedia provides this reasonably up to date at this web address.   I’m currently not capturing Robots or Minor Edits, getting 500 edits a page spreads a time frame of 5-10 minutes depending on time of day and day of week. The second step is to visit the page editing for every entry that was found in the list. Wikipedia lets you see that. I log all of these actions in a database.

By Craig Wood

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