Wikirage uses the edit stream on Wikipedia to find out what is hot and trendy in pop culture.  The first step in the process is to capture the edit stream.  Wikipedia provides this reasonably up to date at this web address.   I'm currently not capturing Robots or Minor Edits, getting 500 edits a page spreads a time frame of 5-10 minutes depending on time of day and day of week. The second step is to visit the page editing for every entry that was found in the list. Wikipedia lets you see that here. I log all of these actions in a database. To give some background…

I want to do a wrap up of some of the acolades that have been given to WikiRage from the blogging community, I'll focus on the US news.  I've already documented hitting the top of Digg and Del.icio.us. StumbleUpon has sent a tremendous amount of traffic.  Some of the things I read that having a feature in would stroke the ego of any Internet Technologist are Mashable,

August 30th, 2007 was a big day for me.  I came as close to my 15 minutes of fame today as any Internet code monkey could wish too.  Yes wikirage went to number 1 on both digg.com and del.icio.us.  The joy was a little short lived because the digg headliner put a major hurt on my DB server and caused me to scurry and slap together some rudimentary caching of the homepage.   I guess you haven't been digged until the flood of traffic cause you to rethink your scalability, Christoph explained to me that your first system crash due to traffic was a Badge of Honor to be talked of proudly. I've had some good suggestions as to how…