Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit

According to the book of Genesis, the legendary Tower of Babel was built by mankind and destroyed by God. On the internet, though, it's being rebuilt brick by brick to celebrate Wikipedia: every time someone edits a page, a new one is added. And a new tower goes up every day; at midnight UTC, the current tower is topped with a crown.

Todays tower is nearly 300m tall (the site claims an approximately 3 minute delay processing edits, and has so far tracked 41,157) and several bricks are added every second. and Hovering the mouse on a brick shows the article edited, the editor and how many bytes changed. Each brick's color represents the language: most are in blue, representing English, but German seems to be running very close.

Bricks marked with dots are bot edits—and it's a lot of them—and zigzagged bricks represent reversions. The latest, for example, reverts the article for American professional soccer player Matt Freese to an earlier version.

Reverting possible vandalism by [[Special:Contribs/~2026-41752-13|~2026-41752-13]] to version by Ser!. [[WP:CBFP|Report False Positive?]] Thanks, [[WP:CBNG|ClueBot NG]]. (4544294) (Bot)

As the edit being reverted identified Freese as a "terrorist," the assumption was evidently correct.

The construction foreman of this new tower is reppie, who also made a fascinating timeline of Dune, though it does not distinguish between events found in Frank Herbert's own work and that of other authors.