Gregory's ServerFascinating web app from @mistertim :
>I did a little experiment to see if I could surface and ‘ritually eulogise’ deleted wikipedia articles at the point at which they’re deleted, using the MediaWiki Recent Changes API. Here’s the result: a tiny web app which listens to the feed and produces a eulogy (the name of the article, it’s life dates, and its reason for deletion, if given), and rings a bell for each one.
This post is worth a read also: https://www.timcowlishaw.co.uk/a-note-on-geocities-wikipedia-institutional-discards-and-deletion-as-transition/
@cj aaaah thank you! 😊