un_wiki gets quotes from Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia's, Deletion Logs.
The Deletion Log is a list of all the
pages that have abused Wikipedia's democratic remit; it is the last stop on
the way to destruction.
un_wiki is a Perl
script that finds
these texts and throws away the rest.
Before that the entries might look
like this:
- 22:22, 14 December 2005 Montrealais deleted "Oh, it already been broughten" (content was: '{{nonsense}}When someone tells you "to bring it on" the only correct response is "oh, it's already been broughten".Slang from a totally cool [...')
un_wiki re-released in 2008.
Disclaimer: un_wiki can, like its other
incarnations, contain offensive material for which in-vacua.com
disclaims all responsibility.
>> un_wiki
un_wiki,
like all good software art, was conceived in a bedroom (in early 2006).
It was accepted by the runme.org
software art repository. Thereafter, it began a life of its own.
First it was included in RADICAL
SOFTWARE, an exhibition curated by Domenico Quaranta, as part
of the TOSHARE.IT festival in
Torino, March 2006.
Then it won an the Award
of Distinction at Ars Electronica
(2006).
It was also in FILE
International Language Festival (2006), Brazil.
Then it was off to Japan, where it was exhibited in a Japanese language
version at the ICC
gallery in Tokyo (2006).
unwiki_es, a Spanish language
version, appeared in Barcelona June 08 in
'Digital Words' at Espacio Movistar.
The present English language version was reprogrammed 2008.
Image: un_wiki (Japanese version)
Wayne Clements
Connecting Worlds at NTT InterCommunications Center
(ICC) 2006
photo by KIOKU Keizo