Why Wikipedia Works

"If you don't like India, please don't work in India... We will ask government to block Wikipedia in India.": Delhi High Court Judge https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ani-wikipedia-defamation-case-if-you-dont-like-india-delhi-high-courts-tough-talk-for-wikipedia-6496462 8 comments 6/9/2024 india

Wikipedia (web version) images bricked my two computers (at home and at work) None 2 comments 28/4/2022 firefox

I worked through the details of the Wikipedia vote, so you don't have to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations#Recent_developments_regarding_the_reputation_argument 20 comments 14/4/2022 cryptocurrency

Wikipedia editors recently voted against classifying NFTs as works of art https://beincrypto.com/wikipedia-editors-recently-voted-against-classifying-nfts-as-works-of-art/ 27 comments 14/1/2022 cryptocurrency

Wikipedia Not Working https://1.1.1.1 12 comments 10/7/2020 india

Someone is working very hard to dress up Kamala Harris' Wikipedia page, report finds https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/kamala-harris-biden-vice-president-wikipedia-page-15386023.php 39 comments 7/7/2020 politics

Wikipedia’s civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online. Findings suggest that even ideologically opposed people can cooperate when working towards a meaningful goal, and that to make this happen both parties need to agree to a common set of rules https://www.newscientist.com/article/2195577-wikipedias-civil-wars-show-how-we-can-heal-ideological-divides-online/?utm_campaign=rss%7Cnsns&utm_source=nsns&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=news 3 comments 4/3/2020 science

Russia is building its own Wikipedia after Putin says the country needs one - Weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that his country develop an alternative to the massively popular Wikipedia free online encyclopedia one prominent editor has revealed he was working to do just that. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-version-wikipedia-release-date-1473332 10 comments 22/11/2019 worldnews

[Most of these ideas work best with a blockchain like BCH.] Wikipedia Co-Founder Unveils "The Declaration Of Digital Independence" https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-independence/ 6 comments 30/6/2019 btc

Wikipedia’s civil wars show how we can heal ideological divides online. Findings suggest that even ideologically opposed people can cooperate when working towards a meaningful goal, and that to make this happen both parties need to agree to a common set of rules https://www.newscientist.com/article/2195577-wikipedias-civil-wars-show-how-we-can-heal-ideological-divides-online/?utm_campaign=rss%7Cnsns&utm_source=nsns&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=news 16 comments 4/3/2019 science

The Wikipedia Article for "Work (Physics)" features several pictures of an MLB pitcher as an example. He is said to be doing positive work on the ball. However, this player had -.5 WAR that year and he kinda sucked in the game in the picture. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/8onv3v/the_wikipedia_article_for_work_physics_features/ 6 comments 5/6/2018 baseball

Wikipedia says that on very long timescales, "all matter is liquid". What does this mean, how does it work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future 19 comments 30/8/2016 askscience

Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_engine_grant_agreement.pdf 16 comments 15/2/2016 technews

[PDF] Wikipedia starts work on $2.5m internet search engine project to rival Google https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a7/knowledge_engine_grant_agreement.pdf 54 comments 15/2/2016 linux

NYPD won’t punish cops for sanitizing Wikipedia police brutality entries: They might be reprimanded for using employer's computers for unrelated work. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-wont-punish-cops-for-sanitizing-wikipedia-police-brutality-entries/ 3 comments 17/3/2015 politics

Josh Cribbs hints at return to NFL - Was recently worked out by Colts and had his Wikipedia article updated as a member of the Colts http://teamstre.am/1xwt2hz 14 comments 15/11/2014 nfl

There is a publisher that is working to publish a 1,000 volume Wikipedia in print which would fill a 32 ft long by 8 ft high bookcase. http://www.bendbulletin.com/entertainment/1977742-151/devolution-of-wikipedia-a-1000-volume-series 24 comments 17/4/2014 worldnews

Wikipedia founder brands porn filters plan 'ridiculous' "It won't work. The software you would use to implement this doesn't work...when we use cases of a paedophile who's been addicted to child porn videos online, you realize all that Cameron's rules would require him to do is opt in and say yes" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23558865 580 comments 3/8/2013 technology

Working with XML (Wikipedia dump) http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html 4 comments 22/4/2013 learnprogramming

Meet a few of the tens of thousands of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia, the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation who maintain Wikipedia's infrastructure, and donors who make this work possible. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/thank_you_all 6 comments 29/12/2012 technology

Jason Scott - "Fuck Wikipedia." An article with fairly little-known information on how the immensely popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia works. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826 38 comments 13/12/2012 technology

Hardest working man on the internet passes one million Wikipedia edits http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/one-million-wikipedia-edits/ 47 comments 20/4/2012 technology

Dissident Wikipedia editors say planned SOPA protest blackout could threaten credibility of their work http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_wikipedia_credibility?site=ap&section=home&template=default 4 comments 17/1/2012 politics

How a lifter works (Wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ionocraft 5 comments 19/1/2010 technology

Someone at Wikipedia is actively working to delete entries about various software projects that supposedly fail Wikipedia's "notability" test. http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2009-december/087962.html 237 comments 8/1/2010 programming

"I asked in IRC whether it's possible to delete the [Wikipedia] Main Page. A certain user who might like to show up here, possibly, told me that he tested it and confirm doesn't properly work. I was a tad too gullible and tested it for myself." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:administrators%27_noticeboard/incidentarchive363#i_deleted_the_main_page 8 comments 1/11/2009 reddit.com

Operation Paperclip cleared the way for German scientists to work in the United States (Wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/operation_paperclip 11 comments 15/10/2009 science

Hey Proggit, here's my 1-year old pet project: similarity search engine for Wikipedia. Works by grouping articles in the eigenspace of the link transition matrix. Details are in the first comment. http://www.smartwikisearch.com 212 comments 21/8/2009 programming

"Simple English" wikipedia truly is a piece of work. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/central_processing_unit 2 comments 25/9/2008 technology

McCain supporters have been hard at work on Wikipedia's "Bush Doctrine" entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bush_doctrine/? 24 comments 15/9/2008 politics

Look no farther than Wikipedia for a stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/08/opinion/main4241293.shtml 3 comments 26/7/2008 reddit.com

First drug companies were caught deleting side effects about drugs on Wikipedia, now the big LAW FIRMS working for the drug companies are getting caught deleting what they don't want people to know about them. http://www.brandweeknrx.com/2007/09/covington-burli.html 23 comments 12/9/2007 reddit.com

How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley ... http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html 4 comments 10/7/2006 freeculture

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