This is a visualization of Wikipedia activity from December to yesterday, split into distinct time periods by color (running from lighter to darker through the time period):
- Yellow for edits before December 18th
- Green for edits from December 18th to January 25th
- Red for edits from January 25th to February 11th
- Purple for edits after February 11th
Along with the various Wikipedia pages for the individual protests, I also tracked the nations in question, to see if there was any particular pattern to how they were and continued to be edited as well as who was doing all of this editing.
I was inspired by the animated representation of Twitter activity during the Egyptian Revolution:
Unfortunately, there’s an untimely bug in Gephi’s dynamic network handling, so I’ll probably have an animated version some time this week, and release the dataset thereafter.