@timbray@cosocial.ca2024-06-16 19:21:09
Hey, let’s argue about Wikipedia (1/2): “There are voices — some loud and well-respected — who argue that Wikipedia is deeply flawed, a hellscape of psychotic editors and contempt for expertise. I mostly disagree, but those voices deserve, at least, to be heard ...”
https://www.tbray.org/ongoin…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2024-06-15 19:00:49
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
@publicvoit@graz.social2024-06-17 07:13:39
«maybe #Wikipedia should change its tag-line from “anyone can edit” to “anyone who’s willing to provide citations can edit.”»
Wikipedia Pain by @…
@usul@piaille.fr2024-04-16 08:58:02
Trackback - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
This was my favorite blogging feature. Too bad it's not implemented on some platforms.
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2024-06-17 02:59:00
Couldn’t find from which article this haiku comes from.
#Madagascar #Wikipedia https://botsin.space/@wikipediah…
@malik@Mastodon.Social2024-05-15 23:50:34
TIL about BAVOVNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavovna
@j12t@social.coop2024-05-16 20:04:45
History of science fiction. Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_fiction
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2024-04-16 05:39:27
As promised, some short (1:23min) phone video impressions from Sunday's varied hike in the beautiful Ester Mountains[1] (mainly filmed during descent only, since the steep way up was mostly without any grand views)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Mountains
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2024-04-15 21:42:18
huh TIL the theme music for the light programme radio drama paul temple and steve was originally composed to celebrate a record-breaking train, the coronation scot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Scot (euston to glasgow via crewe, 114mph on its test run in 1937)
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2024-03-17 10:00:05
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.
