#hatnote

[deramin2]

The world is scary and isolating and overwhelming. It's hard to notice all the little ways people help to make positive collective change. But there's an easy way to go hear some of it at any time:

Listen To Wikipedia by Hatnote

Listen to Wikipedia is a generative ambient musical and visual art piece that's been running since July of 2013 based on Wikipedia edits. Considered as a specific song, it has been playing continuously for over a decade.

"Bells are additions, strings are subtractions. There’s something reassuring about knowing that every user makes a noise, every edit has a voice in the roar. (Green circles are anonymous edits and purple circles are bots. White circles are brought to you by Registered Users Like You.)"

Enough people are out there trying to share some understanding of the entire world around us at a fast enough that in can make interesting music. We're not doing this alone. Many hands make lighter work. Wikipedia is a wonder of the modern world because millions of people willed it into existence together, and the act of that creation constantly continues.

[hat-note]

For all you top.hatnote.com readers out there, we just added some shortcuts to do a web search (🔍) and news search (🗞️) for each article. Hope this saves you a click or two!

[itsumikorokotoyomonoko]

here's the one I've just got on http://listen.hatnote.com/#en,zh,uk,ja

Listen to the sound of wikipedia

This is a way to listen to changes to wikipedia. You are literally listening to knowledge being added to the world.

Pluck sounds are an addition, strings are subtractions, and the pitch says how how big the edit is. My heart shudders at this I love it so much.

[rinasaurusrex]

if you need me, i'll be disassociating to the sound of Wikipedia edits

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[elizabethplaid]

Mild complaints, because I feel grumpy and was too warm when trying to sleep earlier:

-- Made myself some french toast and scrambled eggs. It was tasty but not well-presented. I was too impatient, so I just poured the rest of the eggs in the pan before the bread finished cooking. So it got jumbled together. Incredibly tasty, yes.

--- Then I proceeded to scarf it down like a dog who needs one of those slow-feeder plates. Why? Probably impatience. That and needing to ditch clothes again. (Quite notably agitating tonight, rather than merely annoying.)

-- I wanted to watch a video on my phone while I ate, but my headphones wouldn't connect. See, I left some music playing on my laptop upstairs, and the headphones prioritized that signal over my phone. And with not being able to pause it*, I couldn't get things to switch.

--- Instead, I read more of "The Nameless Luna". There's a handful of chapters left, but they're all incredibly short. Again, impatience led me to skipping a bunch of things. And then I kept getting 30-second ads. (I'm used to 5-second ones on another app, lately.)

(* I had been listening to wikipedia on hatnote. The page makes chimes and chords based on the different updates made to wiki. It has the same rhythm of a windchime. Can't really pause it, though you can mute it.)

I'm back upstairs again, sitting in front of the fan, sans pants. (Not sans culottes, mind you.) I really should try to sleep more, but sleep doesn't come easy. I'm back to 2-hour naps today, even when I had my door closed.

[heresmyfiddlestick]

I mean on the one hand, the article in question has a big ass note at the top pointing out that it has a lot of problems that are being hashed out in the Talk page

So it's not as though anyone will stumble across this article and believe it to be a perfectly accurate and un-flawed description of the event.

Also notably, one of the things to be discussed about that page, is the possible merge with another page, with a title that frames the event differently (the erasure of the massacre being what The Slow Factory on Twitter is objecting to in the OP).

You'll notice in those hatnotes, that the second sentence is "Please help improve [the page]". I'm a little sick of people dumping on Wikipedia with no thought to trying to improve it.

[venusasnb]

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[windy-trickster]

Oh! I’m a bit of a writer myself.

I like to write science fiction and fantasy oriented things mostly.

What do you like to write? <:)

"F-Fantasy as well.. I-I sometimes ask Sam<-Hai about magical elements and w<-Hatnot... S-S<-He's a witc<-H, you know! A-A really talented one as well! I've seen <-Her do all sorts of t<-Hings." -> Minjae could feel the tips of his fins heat up while mentioning his matesprite and started to get all embarrassed "A-Anyways... I like fantasy mainly. I-I've tried writing other genres. <-H<-Horror isn't my thing... F-Fiction's fun too... I-I also write about plants I see in l-little journals Sam<-Hai gives me."

[deramin2]

When I loaded Listen to Wikipedia tonight it glitched & stopped playing after a few sparse notes. For a brief moment before I thought to reload, I was living in a horrific nightmare world where the edits to English Language Wikipedia were so sparse that they no longer made music. It was like experiencing the heat death of the open web.

[les-hdfjsjkj]

hatnote - listen to the sound of wikipedia's recent changes feed

also this post for making your own html website!

and another post that has really useful websites

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[heresmyfiddlestick]

now might be a good time to direct people to hatnote, the ambient music player that makes sounds based off of Wikipedia edits. absolutely popping off in the past hour

[fuckyeahwikipediadisambiguations]

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[ky-the-squiddy]

If you ever need some random and pleasant background noise, might I suggest listening to the sounds of wikipedia being edited?

[hat-note]

Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata

Wikidata is amazing. Thanks to the amazing Wikidata evangelists out there, I feel confident that, given at least five minutes, I can convince anyone that Wikidata offers a critical service necessary for Wikipedia, other wiki projects, and generally the future of knowledge. Challengers welcome. :)

But Wikidata has a problem. Right now it's optimized to ingest and grow. We've written about how it's not ideal for maintenance of the datasets, but automated ingestion of datasets is what Wikidata does best.

All this automated growth doesn't necessarily connect well with the organic growth of Wikipedia and other projects. And we can see that Wikidata hasn't truly captured the positive attentions of existing editor communities.

For that human touch Wikidata needs ever so much, it must reach out to the projects that gave rise to it.

One idea for doing this would be to make human editing of Wikidata easier. Make editing Wikidata as easy as adding a citation to Wikipedia. Literally.

Highlight a statement, click a button like "Structure this statement" and grow Wikidata, all without leaving your home wiki.

What it might look like to edit Wikidata from Wikipedia.

While Wikitext will always have its place for me, I've quite warmed up to the visual editor, and prefer its interface for adding citations. While it's only an idea for an experiment at the moment, how might an inline Wikidata editor following the same pattern could be change the game for Wikidata?

A lot of data is already citing back to home wikis, but a powerful enough editor could pull the citation on a statement through to the Wikidata entry, along with the import source.

So much data is already coming from Wikipedia, but humans can do even better.

I have always thought it would be great to see Wikidata's support for multi-valued properties leveraged more fully. A language-agnostic knowledgebase will be a new space to compare and resolve facts. A meeting of the many minds across different languages of Wikipedia could spell better information for all.

An advanced enough system could encourage contributions on the basis of coverage, highlighting cited statements which have not yet been structured.

And of course, at the very least, we speed up building an intermediary representation of knowledge, not tied to a specific language. People sharing knowledge across wikis, helping to further bootstrap a Wikidata community with close ties to its older siblings.