Comments on: Replaying history

By: Matt Shanley

Matt Shanley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:28:19 +0000

I don’t really know much beyond what that site says. I saw Martin speak once a few years back and I think he said something about History Flow never being released because it wasn’t built to access data from the live Wikipedia site or something along those lines.

I’d be very happy to see them release it though, or better yet the source code. Not sure how IBM would feel about that.

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:36:07 +0000

Martin and Fernanda are wizards, and I love everything they do.

Thanks for reminding me about History Flow.

I’d seen the images before. Now I’m wondering about the tool. Was it ever released?

By: Matt Shanley

Matt Shanley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:19:10 +0000

The History Flow visualization project by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas is another good example of Wikipedia history visualization. I’d love it if git tools showed similar graphs.

http://www.bewitched.com/historyflow.html

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:36:01 +0000

> What is the intersection between a feed
> and a set of git ids?

I’ve got a few things up at github, but there’s no network of activity surrounding them, so I don’t yet have a feel for the dynamics.

But based on the description of the network graph, it sounds like there would have to be many feeds, each from the perspective of one id active in the repository?

By: Neil Ernst

Neil Ernst — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:36:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this too, in the context of software modeling. The approach we are using right now involves Git, which also supports distributed editing. What is the intersection between a feed and a set of git ids? One thing I can think of would be non-linearity in Git vs. (mostly) linear changes in Wikipedia.