IBM History Flow tool

See also IBM History flow project on the Meta-Wikipedia.

IBM's History Flow tool is a visualization tool for a time-sequence of snapshots of a document in various stages of its creation. The tool supports tracking contributions to the article by different users, and can identify which parts of a document have remained unchanged over the course of many full-document revisions. The tool was developed by Fernanda Viégas of the MIT Media Lab and Martin Wattenberg and Kushal Dave of IBM.

IBM Research has done an analysis of Wikipedia usage and edits using a history flow tool.[1] [2]

References

• History flow paper (pdf), 2004 - presented at CHI 2004, in Vienna on 24 April-29 April. A demonstration of History Flow using the histories of various Wikipedia articles, using a database snapshot from May 2003.
• IBM's alphaWorks page for the History Flow Visualization Application, including a downloadable implementation of it.