How to create a time-lapse video of a Wikipedia page (or any website)

For a post over at the Washington Post’s @innovations blog, I wanted to communicate just how fast Wikipedia users created and populated the Japan earthquake Wikipedia page after the disaster struck. I wanted to create a time-lapse video using screenshots and tried to find the least laborious way of creating one. Here’s how I did it:

Every Wikipedia page has a revisions history tab in the top right corner of the page. I right clicked pages time stamped one minute apart and opened each revision page in its own tab.

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