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The Planet Thinks is a free, open-source website that shows Wikipedia being edited in real time on a realistic 3D globe. Every few seconds someone, somewhere, edits a Wikipedia article about a place — a city, a river, a mountain, a battlefield — and it lights up on the globe exactly where that place is on Earth. The colour of each spark is the language edition it came from; click one to read the actual edit. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking.

Demo video

40 seconds, 1080p. A real screen recording of the live globe in cinematic mode, scored with the site's own generative ambient music.

Screenshots

The 3D globe lit by live Wikipedia edits over Europe, Africa and Asia — Live edits on the day side, coloured by language edition.

The globe showing the real sunset terminator band sweeping across Earth — The real day/night terminator sweeps across the planet.

The night side of the globe with warm city lights and glowing edit sparks — Night side: warm city lights and glowing edit embers.

Logo / app icon (480×480 PNG).

Direct links: icon.png · screenshot-live.png · screenshot-terminator.png · screenshot-night.png. All free to use with credit to The Planet Thinks.

Fact sheet

What it is	A live 3D globe of Wikipedia edits, in real time.
Price	Free. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking cookies.
Source	Open source, MIT-licensed. The deployed site runs the same code as the public repo.
Data	The public Wikimedia EventStreams `recentchange` feed, rendered within seconds of each edit.
Coverage	All ~300 Wikipedia language editions. Edits to articles with map coordinates (about a fifth of Wikipedia) appear on the globe; the rest feed the live counter.
Built with	three.js / globe.gl on the front, a small Node.js service on the back. Earth imagery is NASA's public-domain Blue Marble and Black Marble.
Features	Realistic day/night Earth with a live terminator, a cinematic auto-tour, optional generative ambient music, and a full-screen cinematic mode for second monitors and TVs.

Links

The globe (home) — the live visualization.
Live edit statistics — current edits per minute, hour and day, by language.
Source code on GitHub — MIT-licensed.
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Watch it

Every geo-located edit lights up, live, where its subject actually is on Earth. It is free, open source, and strangely calming.

Watch Wikipedia edit itself, live →