An Interesting Idea: Wikirage

A new site called Wikirage is very interesting. It provides a list of the entries in Wikipedia that are getting the most frequent edits over various periods of time (past hour, past 24 hours, past week, and so on). The lists generated are more-or-less a good way to get a sense of the very latest new-generating events, on the assumption that if something is an important news item it would generate a wikipedia change -- and likely many in a flurry, as wikipedians hurry to get as accurate an account of the event as possible.

At the Wikirage homepage the default list shows the 100 entries based on edits over the past day. Giving it a quick glance, there are many entries that are about major sports events from the past day, some political news from the past day, and so on. I suspect that this site will be a hit!