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August 30, 2007 12:01 PM PDT

Wikirage does live zeitgeist for Wikipedia

by Josh Lowensohn
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If you're a fan of Google's zeitgeists, or whenever Wikipedia publishes their list of the most popular pages, you'll get a kick out of Wikirage. The service scours the latest edits on Wikipedia to find out which items are getting the most editing attention. It then publishes the list in a top 100, which you can browse by hour, day, week, and month. Each link goes straight to the Wikipedia page in question, and offers a pretty fascinating look at what's going on inside the service.

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See what's hot on Wikipedia right now with Wikirage.

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Josh Lowensohn writes for Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications and services. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.
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by lorenzinho August 30, 2007 1:56 PM PDT
Very cool. This could be very useful for UGC sites looking for topics that drive user participation.
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Most Popular Wikipedia Pages
by searchCrystal August 31, 2007 3:50 PM PDT
The ?WikiCharts" tool developed by Leon Weber lets you see the most visited pages in Wikipedia.
Using this data, searchCrystal - http://www.searchcrystal.com - let's you visually compare the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages and it lets you see which Wikipedia pages hold a "timeless" interest.
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Most popular Wikipdia pages over time
by searchCrystal August 31, 2007 3:54 PM PDT
The ?WikiCharts" tool developed by Leon Weber provides you with a list of the most visited pages in Wikipedia.
Using this data, searchCrystal - http://www.searchcrystal.com - let's you visually compare the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages and it lets you see which Wikipedia pages hold a "timeless" interest.
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They need to change the name
by chrisaroz September 4, 2007 7:49 AM PDT
I thought we were going to hear about someone getting killed over a bad post on Wikipedia = Wikirage.
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