A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia. Erik Zachte, a data analyst
at the Wikimedia Foundation, takes it from the angle of those who are actually editing Wikipedia. The animated map shows edits from a single day (May 10, 2011, to be exact) when there were nearly 370,000 edits from around the world.
Watch the edits play out over time (above), or select from a few other views, such as a static bubble map, as shown below.
Still amazes me that so many participate in adding to the giant knowledge bucket. Have you ever made an edit to Wikipedia?
[Wikimedia via Map of the Week]
I edit from New Zealand. What have you done to my beautiful country?
The biggest bubble appears to be in …Kansas?
Kansas eh. Would that be those people who keep deleting the info on rock formation and saying “God created the world in 7 days”?
Actually it seems that the biggest two are here in the UK.
Actually it seems that the biggest two bubbles are here in the UK
I edit from Bulgaria – a small bubble