Wikichanges provides a thin wrapper around Wikipedia's API to get a stream of edits. Anon listens on the WikiChanges object and filters it for a specified range of IPs, and then uses the "twit" package to tweet. OK, neither of them are particularly complex, but that's kind of what makes them cool...a lot of interesting things can be done with simple hacks and piping.
A small change I would make is to remove "anonymously" as by definition, all of the detected changes come from anonymous users. A little tightening of the wordage, and the tweet can include maybe even the changelog message of the edit.
A late-summer project I have in mind is just to scour all the changes made by these IP addresses, since the beginning of time. It'd be interesting to see the rate of change or the trends in behavior over time...I expect if Anon gets a little more coverage, all staffers will take the 30 seconds it takes to make a new account to mask their IP addresses. But then again, I thought people would've figured that out years ago...
https://github.com/edsu/wikichanges
Wikichanges provides a thin wrapper around Wikipedia's API to get a stream of edits. Anon listens on the WikiChanges object and filters it for a specified range of IPs, and then uses the "twit" package to tweet. OK, neither of them are particularly complex, but that's kind of what makes them cool...a lot of interesting things can be done with simple hacks and piping.
A small change I would make is to remove "anonymously" as by definition, all of the detected changes come from anonymous users. A little tightening of the wordage, and the tweet can include maybe even the changelog message of the edit.
A late-summer project I have in mind is just to scour all the changes made by these IP addresses, since the beginning of time. It'd be interesting to see the rate of change or the trends in behavior over time...I expect if Anon gets a little more coverage, all staffers will take the 30 seconds it takes to make a new account to mask their IP addresses. But then again, I thought people would've figured that out years ago...