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the planet thinks

A free data visualization — play it in your browser, no install. Watch Wikipedia being edited in real time on a 3D globe — theplanetthinks.com

by @alekcac · alekcac/the-planet-thinks on GitHubLANG HTML★ 1HOSTED ON THEPLANETTHINKS.COMUPDATED 18 Aug 2026

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Watch Wikipedia being edited in real time on a 3D globe. Every pulse is a real edit happening right now to an article about a place — the planet, visibly thinking.

Wikimedia EventStreams recentchange feed, keeps article edits from all ~300 language Wikipedias, resolves article coordinates (batched and cached), and fans the result out over WebSocket.

day/night Earth, bloom, a drifting starfield, a cinematic auto-tour, optional chimes, and generative ambient music.

Edits light up where the article subject is located.

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