These scripts were used to generate a video showing anonymous edits on Wikipedia using the geo location of the ip addresses.
The video is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/xrm0/3654611676/ and the blog post with more info is at http://ktulu.com.ar/blog/2009/06/27/wikipedia-density-map/
If you want to run the scripts you need a few things to setup first:
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Download geoip city database from MaxMind (http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz and decompress it.
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Download a Wikipedia database dump (I've used a pages-meta-history.xml.7z dump). See in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database where to get one. Leave the file compressed.
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Run extract (you need Ant and a JDK to compile the dump reader). Errors are logged in error.log . When extract finishes, a 'data' directory will be created.
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Run graph.rb (you need Ruby and the rmagick and geoip_city gems). The script will create an image for each day in directory 'maps'
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Run video.rb (you need Ruby and ffmpeg) to create the video.
- Copyright © 2009 Luis Parravicini, under the GPL v2 license.
- The SVG World Map used is based on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Blank_Map_(Mercator_projection).svg, by João Felipe C.S
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