WikiWash
Productivity
journalism edit inspection
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for evaluating edits and reversions
From 2 comments
This is awesome! I've wanted to build something like this for a while, but never gotten the chance :). Better tools like this are essential for helping users accept and reject…
crazy2be on HNFWIW, the wikisphere thinks this is pretty cool :-) New ways of reusing our stuff are always of interest.
davidgerard on HN
Objections
Journalists need to know which edits to inspect, not how to inspect them
From 1 comment
not a very useful project. Problem for journalists isn't "how to inspect edits" but rather "which edits on which entries should I inspect"
Edmontonian on HN
Load on Wikipedia servers from API use
From 1 comment
I'm not sure if Wikipedia is OK with that, considering the load it generates [1]. I am currently doing some research on Wikipedia, and for my purposes I use the official dumps…
xxxyy on HN
Site was down or not loading under HN traffic
From 2 comments
You tried to access the address http://wikiwash.metronews.ca/, which is currently unavailable. :(
aw3c2 on HNwikiwash.metronews.ca doesn't load
imaginenore on HN
Requests
Fix footnote links
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I've wanted to build something like this for a while, but never gotten the chance :). Better tools like this are essential for helping users accept and reject…
crazy2be on HN
Support other sites beyond Wikipedia
From 1 comment
Thanks for releasing this. Any plans to support other sites? Perhaps an open source diffbot server?
tzm on HN
Questions
How to reduce load on Wikipedia servers
From 2 comments
I'm not sure if Wikipedia is OK with that, considering the load it generates [1]. I am currently doing some research on Wikipedia, and for my purposes I use the official dumps…
xxxyy on HNLoad management is a big problem that we're looking to fix in the future. Wikipedia's API definitely struggles when rendering old revisions of medium-to-large pages, but we try…
psobot on HN
Alternatives named
Wikipedia history tab and official dumps
From 2 comments
Of course, you could always click on the 'View history' tab. That's not the point.
ExpiredLink on HNI'm not sure if Wikipedia is OK with that, considering the load it generates [1]. I am currently doing some research on Wikipedia, and for my purposes I use the official dumps…
xxxyy on HN