hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia

Live, generative music from Wikipedia edits

listen-to-wikipedia's Issues

Add Estonian Wikipedia

Hello!

Can you add the Estonian Wikipedia to the list. We have an average of 750 edits per day, but we could use it during events where more edits are made as a fun tool.

• Yours Truly
  Wikimedia Estonia

Just for info ^^

Nice work !

We did that with a mecanic system playing a piano and listening to the IRC channel :
https://vimeo.com/54803321

cheers

Create option to listen to non-mainspace edits as well

This is particularly handy for smaller Wikipedias, as L2W can be used as a monitoring tool. The idea @mahmoud pitched in #20 was a toggle to enable non-mainspace edits (in addition to mainspace edits) to the overall melody.

Add support for Danish Wikipedia?

Some how Danish is not in the UI, and adding "da" in the URL does not work. Can you add support for Danish Wikipedia changes feed? Thanks.

Wrong external links to Wikidata

Hi,

A correct URL for Wikidata items starts with http://www.wikidata.org/ , not http://wikidata.wikipedia.org/ .

Best regards,

Configuration for Third-Party Wikis

I'd love to see some information how how one could set this up for their own MediaWiki installation. What's required on the websockets end to use this on non-wikimedia wikis?

Sound going glitchy and staticky

This is probably a problem with my machine (Lenovo X120e), but today while listening the sound went all staticky and glitchy---in an interesting way. I recorded a sample: https://soundcloud.com/wdenton/listen-to-wikipedia-1253. This is on Ubuntu 13.04 with Firefox 22.

This could be turned from a possible bug into a certain feature with a "glitch" option.

Typos

There are ungregistered users in app.js. There's also a var epm_contaner = svg_area.append; (note the missing i in container) that does.. nothing? :D

Internet Radio Feed

Hi!

I think it would be super great if there were some sort of streaming radio feed so people could still listen using existing apps rather than only from the website.

Thanks!

creating an Amazon Alexa skill

Hello,
I would like to attempt to create an Amazon Alexa skill to listen to this. Can anyone suggest how I might go about doing this? Amazon has an audio API, but it requires a stream over https.
I can install the code on my own server, but I'm not sure how to go about getting the audio and sending it out via a stream. Would I be better off re-implimenting the code in something like Python and generating the stream that way. I don't need graphics, just the audio.

Migrate from socket.io to SSE / EventSource based EventStreams

As yall know, we are planning to decomission the socket.io based RCStream service in July this year. We've built a new service called EventStreams that takes its place.

• https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/20/eventstreams/
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventStreams

Switching should be pretty easy, but let me know if we can help in any way. Thanks!

Wikidata titles are useless

The wikidata items are shown as "Q347387" or similar. But some number and letter-combinations are not very useful for the average user. When I click on an item, however a much more useful title is usually shown, e.g. "Difference between revisions of "Charles Hull". So here, "Charles Hull" is more suitable, is not it?

Can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://wikimon.hatnote.com:9220/.

Your tool is cited by the MOOC Wikidata from Wikimedia France. The community has pointed out widespread bug, while other users can access the service normally.

On Firefox / Ubuntu : http://listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://wikimon.hatnote.com:9220/.

On google chrome / Ubuntu : http://listen.hatnote.com/#wikipedia

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

WebSocket connection to 'ws://wikimon.hatnote.com:9000/' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.

Issues with proxies blocking web sockets

From my internet at work, I see this a lot:
WebSocket connection to 'ws://wikimon.hatnote.com:9000/' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 407

I think something to consider is switching to socket.io. Socket.io cleanly falls back to alternate protocols in case websockets fail to work for whatever reason.

Reduce CPU usage

Great project! Cannot listen to it in the background though because my 2011 MacBook Pro starts rotating CPU fans and it gets too loud. Could you please consider what can be done to reduce CPU consumption?

Add Wikisource

It would be great if you please add all existing Wikisource projects. This is a request from a Wikisourcer.

Full screen option?

Add Simple English as a language

https://simple.wikipedia.org

Add the Hungarian Wikipedia to the tool

Hi! Could you please add the Hungarian Wikipedia to your tool? I would really appreciate it.

Congratulations! Listen to Wikipedia has won the Coolest Tool Award 2020 in the category “Experience”!

Congrats!

More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award

If you'd like to use the image in wikitext, you can use:

{{2020 Coolest tool award|Listen to Wikipedia|Experience}}

Click on an IP should go to Special:Contributions/<IP>

Now clicking on an IP redirect to User:<IP>. It should go to Special:Contributions/<IP>

Use HTTPS

It would be nice to have HTTPS for this site.

https://letsencrypt.org/

autobahn setup?

Looks like you are running autobahn on wikimon.hatnote.com:9XXX, can you share more info about how that is configured and what it is running?

Support for HTTPS?

The current website doesn't include HTTPS and i'm wondering if/when it will.

Selecting "Hide new user announcements" disables the entire app

How to add zh wikipedia to this project?

I come from zh wikipedia, and I want zh can be add to this, but I don't know how to add it.

How does this work?

hi, I would like to make a os x menubar app which will allow user to listen to wikipedia minus the visualization. I don't know how this works. Can you explain to me the parts I would need to implement?

Thanks.

Add Turkish Wikipedia

Just today Wikipedia became accessible in Turkey after almost a thousand days since it was blocked countrywide. It would be nice to be able to hear the sounds of the edits rolling in after the floodgates have opened. 👍

Add the Esperanto Wikipedia

Hi! Could you please add the Esperanto Wikipedia to your tool? I would really appreciate it. Thanks a lot!

The tool is great.

Unregistered users with IPv6 addresses are not marked as "(unregistered user)"

Example text displayed:
2607:F700:1:BE:8641:D9F4:E10D:416 added 14 bytes to List of Lego themes (en)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPv6.

Add a select all button for languages

Proposal

I suggest adding a select all language option to listen-to-Wikipedia so that users don't need to click on all the forty languages to see a full view of Wikipedia edit.

The end result may look something like this:

disable recent changes text for accessibility

Hello,
I've checked out the source and am taking a look at it. I'm not a developer.
Is there an easy way with either a JS or CSS tweak that I can disable the scrolling list of Wikipedia changes on the page? What I want is just the audio without the display. I am blind and use screen reading software. I'm finding that the visual display is causing my screen reader to become sluggish.

What license is needed to upload videos

I would like to make a few uploads derived from the Listen to Wikipedia page. What license, if any, is required? My initial thought is to upload one three minute video to YouTube, suitably credited, and upload a small freely licensed screenshot of the page to Wikimedia Commons for possible use by articles in the Wikipedia namespace.

Is it sufficient to credit the two builders and include something like "reproduced here with permission, all rights reserved" for any YouTube upload? Do the sounds used have any licensing requirements?

Wrong namespaces sometimes included

I noticed this talkpage edit got included somehow: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=600538971&rcid=644269726
and also I saw 2 "Book talk:.." namespace entries but didn't click on them.
HTH :)

Please add Catalan Wikipedia sound

Thanks for this great project, please I would like to ask you that please add the Catalan Wikipedia.
Here is the link https://ca.wikipedia.org/ just to be added.

Really appreciated.

Best!

How's about a screensaver?

Would love a screensaver of Listen to Wikipedia for Mac ;]

How feasible is that?

Firefox new policy on WebSocket do not allows listen-to-wikipedia to work + hotfix

Hi,

I'm not sure and I haven't reviewed policy changes in newer Firefox versions, but as it seems, Firefox (at least) do not allows to call plain WebSocket form HTTPS.

It's good to move to HTTPS to fix it.

But for users, you can change network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS in Firefox about:config to true to allow listen-to-wikipedia to work if you are addicted ;)

Portuguese Wikipedia

As Mateussf pointed out on Twitter, somehow we went all this time without Portuguese Wikipedia. A remarkable fact, but also one in need of change ASAP.