The Planet Thinks

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The Planet Thinks

Every few seconds, somewhere on Earth, a Wikipedia article about a place is edited. Each pulse is one such edit, shown where that place is on the globe.

• Colour = language. Each of Wikipedia's ~300 language editions has its own hue.
• Signed-in — an edit by a registered account.
• Anonymous — a logged-out editor.
• Bot — an automated edit, often maintenance or mass updates.

Only edits to articles that have map coordinates appear — about a fifth of Wikipedia. Articles about people, ideas, or events have no location, so they're counted in the header but not shown on the globe.