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What sounds in Wikipedia?

14 Aug

This was a joke made ​​at the launch of South by Southwest, the media conference in ListenWikipediaAustin Texas, which actually was the basis of a new open source project to edits audio and animations to Wikipedia.

Listen to Wikipedia, is the latest transformation of the online encyclopedia for additions and subtractions of sounds, strumming guitars and soothing sounds for you to meditate or listen during a massage or a reading.

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Pitch changes are possible according to the size of the edition, the visual aspect green circles and white circles indicate editions editions of registered users, and also the size of the overlapping circles indicate how many editions.

The announcement was made at The Verge, and its creators Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi said the about L2W (original name): “There is something comforting in knowing that each user makes a noise, each issue has a voice or a roar” they said.

LaPorte Hashemi and built the Listen to Wikipedia using D3 and HowlerJS and say that was the inspiration Listen to Bitcoin, a digital project done by Maximillian Laumeister, floating in the bubbles of Bitcoin transactions.

 

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