Wikipedia Art Installation a Beautiful, Tree-Killing Marvel

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It's time to celebrate ten years of crowd-sourced information and unconfirmed citations. For better or worse, …

What Happens When Wikipedia Edits Are Printed In Real Time?

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An art installation for Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary party suspended 18 printers over a room. Why? …

More frou-frou hob-nobbing for Jimbo and friends.

The slips of paper look like they were pre-printed, not a "live feed" of edits. As with most things Wikipedia, what you're led to believe isn't the actual fact of the matter.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Physical Records Of Real-Time [b]Wikipedia Edits[/b]
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Installation Prints [b]Wikipedia Edits in Real-Time[/b]
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Having watched the video, the creators say "It can be hard to appreciate the detail of changes from one specific edit..." (i.e., we couldn't be bothered to code it) so they just print the first line of the edited article. I guess this also masks the incidents of vandalism ,etc. I liked this idea of this project, but I wasn't big on the execution.