New site looks at Wikipedia trends by tracking article edits
DataSift, the company that gathers stats on social media trends and that took Twitter by storm, is now tracking trends on Wikipedia.
The company launched Wikistats today, a site that shows real-time data on which articles have been edited the most in the last 24 hours. The site identifies when changes were made and by how many different users. The data also shows how many lines were removed from articles and how many were added.
Most people forget that Wikipedia -- one of the largest crowd-sourced data repositories in the world and the sixth most popular Web site overall -- … Read more