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- List of long time abusers of Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse 4 comments
- Please review my part time project - Twitter meets wikipedia http://twitterex.com 4 comments
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- Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-time-to-build-that-tiny-link-preview-on-wikipedia/ 3 comments web
- Russian Search Engines to Label Wikipedia as ‘War Fakes’ Spreader - The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/21/russian-search-engines-to-label-wikipedia-as-war-fakes-spreader-a78363 21 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/23/wikipedia-is-getting-a-new-look-for-the-first-time-in-10-years-heres-why/ 12 comments technology
- The Wikipedia article for ECC memory states that neutron flux is 3.5 times higher at the common cruising altitude for most aircraft than at sea level. Why do common personal computers not encounter errors on airlines? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/gd1a9z/the_wikipedia_article_for_ecc_memory_states_that/ 10 comments askscience
- Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war 7 comments technology
- The AfD has overtaken the SPD for the first time in Wikipedia’s running average of polls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_German_federal_election 88 comments germany
- Wikipedia: the most cited authors revealed to be 3 Australian scientists - Trio who wrote climate paper had no idea they were referenced over 2.8 million times https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/07/wikipedia-the-most-cited-authors-revealed-to-be-three-australian-scientists 20 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia: the most cited authors revealed to be three Australian scientists - Trio who wrote climate paper had no idea they were referenced more than 2.8 million times https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/07/wikipedia-the-most-cited-authors-revealed-to-be-three-australian-scientists 4 comments technology
- Popularity of the terms "Data Science", "Data Mining", and "Machine Learning" over time measured by the number of daily views of their Wikipedia articles https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?amp%3Bagent=user&%3Bend=2016-12-29&%3Bpages=Machine_learning%7CData_mining%7CData_science&%3Bplatform=all-access&%3Bstart=2015-07-01&project=en.wikipedia.org 4 comments datascience
- Sen. Tim Kaine's Wikipedia page has been edited more than 200 times today http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_0e4a5177-7e82-5c51-abdb-532ee9282a59.html 75 comments politics
- Wikipedia editor has corrected the same grammar mistake 47,000 times http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941444/editor-extraordinaire-obsessive-software-engineer-corrected-grammar-mistake-astonishing-47-000-times-wikipedia.html 4 comments worldnews
- Every time a congressional staffer has edited the Choco Taco Wikipedia page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/07/24/every-time-a-congressional-staffer-has-edited-the-choco-taco-wikipedia-page/?wpmm=ag0003386 8 comments politics
- Thousands of academic publications are referencing sources that can be edited by anyone: not only is the citing of Wikipedia present in high-impact journals, the frequency of Wikipedia citation is increasing with time. http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1585 19 comments science
- Real-time live search of whole Wikipedia in less than 20 lines of JavaScript http://liveweave.com/pphmm1 11 comments javascript
- It's that time of the year: Donate to Wikipedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:fundraiserredirector?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=c11_socialmedia&appeal=appeal-reddit&utm_source=b11_reddit&uselang=en 3 comments worldnews
- Real time Wikipedia change log plotted on a map of the world - See where in the world edits are being made to Wikipedia. http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en 71 comments technology
- At this time, the Italian language Wikipedia may be no longer able to continue providing the service that over the years was useful to you, and that you expected to have right now. Our government is shutting it down. http://computersight.com/computers/wikipedia-against-the-proposed-new-italian-media-law/#ixzz1zqbkcsmr 46 comments technology
- Animation of Wikipedia's growth in different languages over time http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/animationprojectsgrowthwp.html 21 comments technology
- Study: less than 15% of Wikipedia's donors are female, average age is mid-20s. Maybe next time they should put a photo of executive director Sue Gardner on every page. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html 5 comments technology
- Wikipedia's 10th anniversary celebrations are being organized in 54 cities across India. Good time to meet up? http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:india 6 comments india
- SPARC processors (a-n-y-o-n-e- with the money for the materials and means of production (which are NOT intellectual protery, unlike the x86 designs) can build their own fucking servers, and have been able to for a long time) Read more on Wikipedia about SPARC. http://news.cnet.com/sun-gives-away-major-chip-designs/2100-1001_3-222411.html 13 comments linux
- Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax . Good times. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/rush-limbaugh-falls-for-w_n_719436.html 11 comments politics
- Saw Yo Gabba Gabba for the first time today. Wikipedia confirm what I was suspecting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yo_gabba_gabba!#history 2 comments reddit.com
- Nearly as Impressive as Wikipedia and Ten Times Better than Knol: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html 5 comments technology
- Clay Shirky answers the question "Where do people find the time?" and calculates the number of man-hours it took to make Wikipedia http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010186.html#010186 27 comments technology
- "Where do people find the time?" On Wikipedia, television, and the "cognitive surplus" http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010186.html#010186 104 comments science
- Wikipedia fact checkers discover error in NYT article; Times quietly updates the article without publishing an official correction http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/30/nyt_changes_backdate.html? 66 comments reddit.com
- The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology: a perfect record of how humanity understands itself at any moment in time http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061030173044439 4 comments reddit.com
- Since SpaceX made its images public domain they've been viewed over 20 million times on @Wikipedia in 19 languages https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html#gid=190&month=201509 12 comments spacex
- Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Brands PM Cameron’s Planned Data Encryption Ban ‘Moronic’ | Services that encrypt their data, such as WhatsApp and iMessage could be banned under new govt surveillance laws that would theoretically enable the govt to spy on any private communications at any time https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-brands-121431396.html 30 comments technology
- Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Brands PM Cameron’s Planned Data Encryption Ban ‘Moronic’ | Services that encrypt their data, such as WhatsApp and iMessage could be banned under new govt surveillance laws that would theoretically enable the govt to spy on any private communications at any time https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-brands-121431396.html 3 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Brands PM Cameron’s Planned Data Encryption Ban ‘Moronic’ | Services that encrypt their data, such as WhatsApp and iMessage could be banned under new govt surveillance laws that would theoretically enable the govt to spy on any private communications at any time https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-brands-121431396.html 18 comments europe
- Two Israeli groups set up training courses in Wikipedia editing with aims to 'show the other side' over borders and culture (probably a bad time to submit this since it's 9:30 in Israel) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/18/wikipedia-editing-zionist-groups?reddit 54 comments reddit.com
- Who can you trust? Jimmy Wales Helped NY Times Keep News of Kidnapped Reporter Off of Wikipedia http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/technology/internet/29wiki.html?src=twr 7 comments worldnews
- wikirage - pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. http://www.wikirage.com/ 2 comments reddit.com
- The Wikipedia article about the Dallas attack on police officers says: "Police used a robot to deploy a bomb, killing the shooter and ending a standoff. Some experts believed it was the first time in U.S. history a robot was used by police to deliver lethal force against a suspect.[34]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_dallas_police_officers#police_robot_and_lethal_force 15 comments technology
- The Wikipedia article about the Dallas attack on police officers says: "Police used a robot to deploy a bomb, killing Johnson and ending a standoff. Some experts believed it was the first time in U.S. history a robot was used by police to deliver lethal force against a suspect.[34]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Police_robot_and_lethal_force 38 comments robotics
- Code::Blocks last "stable release" was 18 months ago according to Wikipedia and it's own website. But in sourceforge it seems to be getting updated every day many times. Can you explain to me this situation? Should we use Code::Blocks or is it too old and not mantained enough? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/cd5iro/codeblocks_last_stable_release_was_18_months_ago/ 8 comments learnprogramming