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- Show HN: Ranking Your University Using PageRank on Wikipedia http://blog.argteam.com/coding/university-ranking-wikipedia/ 3 comments
- University of Washington researchers created and tested a prototype browser extension called Viblio, which lets viewers and creators add Wikipedia-like citations to YouTube videos https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/09/wikipedia-citations-youtube-misinformation-viblio/ 5 comments technology
- The State-of-Wikipedia & Wikidata in the Ruby Universe - Looking for Parser, API Clients, Template Functions, Apps, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/lf7pcc/the_stateofwikipedia_wikidata_in_the_ruby/ 5 comments ruby
- Wikipedia says the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years and that the Schwarzchild radius of all the mass of the observable universe is about 13.7 billion light years. Is this just a coincidence or is there more to these numbers? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/b8dyuw/wikipedia_says_the_age_of_the_universe_is_138/ 3 comments askscience
- 10Pedia - New universal Wikipedia app https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4nb9q 7 comments windowsphone
- Wikio - Finally an universal Wikipedia app https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4qf4n 57 comments windowsphone
- University bans social media, political content and Wikipedia pages on dorm wifi http://betabeat.com/2014/08/university-bans-social-medial-political-content-and-wikipedia-pages-on-dorm-wifi// 205 comments technology
- University Bans Social Media, Political Content and Wikipedia Pages on Dorm Wifi http://betabeat.com/2014/08/university-bans-social-medial-political-content-and-wikipedia-pages-on-dorm-wifi/ 9 comments nottheonion
- University Bans Social Media, Political Content and Wikipedia Pages on Dorm Wifi http://betabeat.com/2014/08/university-bans-social-medial-political-content-and-wikipedia-pages-on-dorm-wifi/ 3 comments technology
- Pretty cool universe timeline someone made parsing Wikipedia (posting in a 'smaller' subreddit because I don't want to inadvertently take the programmer's server down). http://kobjects.org/timeline/ 14 comments compsci
- Rise in online learning should end traditional, "boring" university lectures, suggests Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22160988 16 comments worldnews
- University of Toronto assignment frustrates and annoys Wikipedia Foundation http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/07/toronto-professor-learns-not-all-editors-are-welcome-on-wikipedia-when-class-assignment-backfires/ 22 comments technology
- Italian wiretapping bill goes against Universal Declaration of Human Rights, shuts down Wikipedia. http://computersight.com/computers/wikipedia-is-being-shutted-down-by-italian-government/ 20 comments europe
- According to Wikipedia, the diameter of the Observable Universe is ~93billion light years. How is this possible if the Universe is only ~14 billion years old? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe 7 comments askscience
- If universities were run like Wikipedia they would consist of voluntary and self-organizing associations of teachers and students, not unlike the original idea for the university in the Middle Ages http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/what-if-we-ran-universities-like-wikipedia/27612 3 comments politics
- Zeta function universality [Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zeta_function_universality 2 comments math
- "In particular, O’Reilly, a Harvard University alumnus, is known for hostility towards the East Coast ‘liberal Ivy League élites’." - Thank you Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-intellectualism#20th_and_21st_centuries 4 comments politics
- Folks, I practically have a degree from Wikipedia State University. They're asking for donations. Now normally I don't like this sort of thing but... come on. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/support_wikipedia/en?utm_source=2009_notice30&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=fundraiser2009&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2Flongyearbyen&target=support_wikipedia 3 comments science
- Many-worlds interpretation @ Wikipedia: "In layman's terms, there is a very large – perhaps infinite – number of universes" w/ question for the sciencey folks inside http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/many-worlds_interpretation 20 comments science
- Wikipedia ruled by 'Lord of the Universe' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/the_cult_of_wikipedia/ 8 comments reddit.com