I found every animated GIF on Wikipedia... then made a site where you can browse them, one-by-one.
Thought you'd enjoy it?
Yes. Yes I do.
There seem to be an inordinate number of animations of calligraphy, and amateurishly-waving national flags.
Every animated GIF on Wikipedia
Tags: mpegs, wiki
Current Music: Wazu -- It's a Trick ♬
13 Responses:
Stroke order is important in Hanzi and Kanji, since they affect the shape of the strokes, and there are rather a lot of characters, so, yeah, there should be a lot of calligraphic GIFs.
Should there really though? The fact that stroke order is important is a relevant fact, but surely such info is best left to sites and sources that deal with the particular subject in detail? Some Wikipedia pages are hard to approach as a layman looking for an overview of a subject because they dive too quickly into technical information.
That's a point, which I won't dispute. But if they're going to do it, there's going to be a lot of them.
I suspect those gifs are all in fact from wiktionary pages like this, which seems a reasonable place to talk about stroke order.
And yet my animated GIF of Jet Set Willy was banned from the JSW article because it crashed someone's Safari ... boo hoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JetSetWilly-ColdStore-Animated.gif
Let's see how many seconds that lasts before being reverted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Set_Willy#Gameplay
4680.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jet_Set_Willy&action=history
hello;
i have optimized your animation from 985KB to 70.8KB by removing unchanged pixels and halving the animation. however, i was unable to replace the file on wikipedia as i do not have enough edits.
i have uploaded the optimized GIF at http://i.imgur.com/19bx2.gif , i hope this helps
My favourite so far is the sparkling donut - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sparkling_Donut.gif
Sad.
Muffins im Ofen JD2007
Only way this site could be improved is by creating a Wikipedia entry for Blingee.
Here's the worst one I've seen so far: http://www.wikigifs.org/#Analog.gif