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Listen to Wikipedia (Hatnote Listen) transforms the continuous global stream of Wikipedia edits into an ambient audiovisual experience. Created by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, it assigns acoustic notes and visual ripples to every edit made across Wikipedia: bells chime for additions, string plucks sound for subtractions, and deep synthesizer pitches signal bot activities.
Key Ambient Monitoring Features
- Acoustic Pitch Mapping: Bell tones ring higher the smaller the edit size; deep resonant notes represent massive multi-paragraph text contributions.
- Visual Expansion Bubbles: Circles expand and fade across the screen proportional to bytes added (green) or removed (purple).
- Multi-Language Wikimedia Feeds: Toggle live edit streams across English, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Russian Wikipedia editions.
- New User Welcoming Chimes: Synthesized organ chords ring whenever an entirely new registered Wikipedia editor publishes their first article.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the different musical sounds mean?
Celesta/bell strikes represent content additions (green circles), acoustic guitar/string plucks signify deletions (purple circles), and pitch corresponds to byte size.
Where does the live data come from?
It connects directly to the official Wikimedia Foundation EventStreams service, an open Server-Sent Events (SSE) feed of real-time wiki edits.
Is Listen to Wikipedia open-source?
Yes. The project is fully open-source, with its Python and JavaScript codebase available on GitHub under the MIT License.
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