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- Why is the French Wikipedia different from all the others? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_principal 2 comments
- This is why different Wikipedia banners result in different average gifts http://saperduper.org/post/293243288/wikipedia-donators-anchoring-heuristic 8 comments
- Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wikipedia-searches-reveal-differing-styles-of-curiosity/ 37 comments
- Building a more robust Wikipedia interface by spotting the differences (2023) https://www.nray.dev/blog/visual-testing-building-a-more-robust-wikipedia-interface-by-spotting-the-differences/ 10 comments
- Wikipedia needs different UK online safety rules, says Foundation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64285220 6 comments
- Why the companion matrix is different than Wikipedia https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/bohsp4/why_the_companion_matrix_is_different_than/ 7 comments matlab
- Different Wikipedia favicon for search bar? http://d.pr/JL6j 5 comments firefox
- Most visited articles on the different language editions of Wikipedia http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F 41 comments europe
- Animation of Wikipedia's growth in different languages over time http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/animationprojectsgrowthwp.html 21 comments technology
- history flow visualizing different pages on Wikipedia. http://www.research.ibm.com/history/results.htm 3 comments reddit.com
- Fascinating Wikipedia article on the "varying names of Germany in different languages". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany 11 comments germany
- Europe in 1648. Correct map used in all Wikipedias except the Spanish one. Spot the difference. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/europe_map_1648.png 80 comments europe
- A new project from Wikipedia translates the same wikipedia page from two different languages. http://manypedia.com 3 comments linguistics
- Wikipedia just told me metric expansion of space is no different than standard motion of objects, is this correct? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metric_expansion_of_space&oldid=430447963 10 comments askscience
- I built a tool that converts Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines, letting you discover surprising historical connections by comparing different people/events' timelines https://wiki-timeline.com/timeline/George_Washington%7CQianlong_Emperor 59 comments internetisbeautiful
- The best information sources of Wikipedia. The database contains assessment results of millions of websites based on analysis of 336 million references from over 60 million Wikipedia articles in different languages in October 2023. https://bestref.net 2 comments internetisbeautiful
- DUSTY BAKER APPRECIATION THREAD: I know everybody's doing a Scooby-Doo dance upon the Astros losing, but perhaps it's possible to show some love for Dusty Baker? According to Wikipedia, he's "the first MLB manager to lead five different teams to the playoffs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dusty_baker 30 comments baseball
- Wikipedia has tried to block users coming from the Tor network since 2007, alleging vandalism, spam, and abuse. This research tells a different story: that people use Tor to make meaningful contributions to Wikipedia. https://blog.torproject.org/the-value-of-anonymous-contributions-wikipedia 14 comments privacy
- Jimmy Wales: Twitter should ban Trump | Wikipedia founder says the platform treats high-profile users differently to everyone else. https://www.politico.eu/article/jimmy-wales-twitter-should-ban-trump/ 70 comments politics
- Wikipedia founder's Facebook rival passes 200,000 users | "WikiTribune wants to be different. We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikitribune-wikipedia-facebook-wt-social-media-a9209066.html 7 comments privacy
- Wikipedia founder's Facebook rival passes 200,000 users | "WikiTribune wants to be different. We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikitribune-wikipedia-facebook-wt-social-media-a9209066.html 53 comments technology
- I created an interactive social network graph of all the philosophers in Wikipedia, charting who influenced whom and including filters for different schools of though, to help myself get into philosophy (xpost from /r/dataisbeautiful) [OC] https://oliveiradata.com/2017/01/09/social-network-visualization-a-history-of-philosophy/ 8 comments philosophy
- I went through the list of Android and iOS devices from Wikipedia and made a graphic that shows all the different screen resolutions and aspect ratios. Thought it might help people developing games for either/both platform(s). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices 60 comments gamedev
- Wikipedia has decided that the Badder-Meinhoff phenomenon/cognitive bias does not exist and now re-directs to the synchronicity page which is a completely different thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baader-meinhof_%28disambiguation%29 3 comments reddit.com