2026-06-24 08:39:00
Wikipedia editors vote to bar co-founder Larry Sanger from editing articles for canvassing outside users to sway internal votes, per the Wikipedia Foundation (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/media/wikipedia-larry-s…
I wonder which country gets round this very simply by lying?
Who could that be, hmmmmm? 🤔
#IsraelIsATerroristState
Here's a depressing read.
Not a left wing figure among them.
OK, the field is smaller after the Starmer purges but there isn't a single Socialist Campaign Group member in Burnham's front bench team.
British Government frontbench - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_
Yuss - figured it out! After lying awake this morning trying to remember the name of the guy who had a hit in the 80s (?) with "Jessie's Girl"... I was pretty sure it was Rick... but Derringer? Nope. Astley? Nah... It was almost painful effort... *boom* Springfield. Yes! I knew it was in there somewhere.
Do people still do that to themselves? Or do they just search for it online?
As a reward, I've allowed myself to look it up:
“There is clear consensus for a community ban of User:Larry Sanger. There is general agreement among participants that he has engaged in off-wiki canvassing and is not here to constructively build the encyclopedia. There is also a significant concern shared by many editors that his actions constitute calls for outing.”
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116636982807828582
Apparently they're landing in Austria! In a skiing area... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patscherkofel
"Glitches, Leaks, and Traces: #Wikipedia’s Accidental Queer Archive" by Jae Kim @ *The iJournal*
https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i2.47513
Wild that the guy who got a Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy previously represented Portugal at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and only returned to medicine after a political quarrel led to a duel. The 20th century was quite something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%B3n…
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
Today is May 25th... which is Towel day. 😊
#hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
Today I got reminded of the SuitPort.
The context was moon missions and the lunar dust problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitport
No, no, no.
Not Bontempi furniture.
Bontempi organs. Everyone of my age is familiar with Bontempi organs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bontempi
Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site For ‘Canvassaing’ https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-cofounder-larry-sanger-banned-from-site-for-canvassaing/
omg i love hong kong "art house" movies: go see chungking express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Express if you do too!
What is it with teachers that they still don’t allow Wikipedia as a source but happily let students cite ChatGPT et al. – “just make sure to also include the prompt in the citation.“
… what?!?!? 🤨😂
The Wikipedia list that will never not be interesting for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrong_anthem_incidents
Roger Dooley does not have a Wikipedia page. Which is odd, considering his interesting life.
Spanish galleon San José does have a Wikipedia page on which Dooley is not mentioned. Which is odd, considering Dooley discovered the wreck.
"Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire", a most interesting en well-researched book by by Julian Sancton.
Of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, the nephews of Donald Duck, which one of these three has the most Wikipedia articles in different language editions?
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
Zum Semesterende reicht die Energie nur für ein “nur kurz”: Für das SoWi-Seminar “Kontroverse KI” habe ich den englischen Controversy Mapping-Kurs auf KI-Themen übertragen und das Contropedia-Projekt erweitert.
Die Contropedia ist ein cooler Sandkasten. Man gräbt sich kreativ durch Wikipedia-Edits https://laserstefan…
If international viewers are wondering why Keir Starmer's resignation speech is accompanied by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - people troll Prime Ministers by setting up sound systems within earshot of Number 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bray
The SunZia Wind project in Central New Mexico, set to be completed in 2026, will be the largest wind farm in the western hemisphere, with a generating capacity of 3,500 megawatts.
Currently, the largest completed wind farm in the U.S. is the Alta Wind Energy Center in California, with a capacity of about 1,550 megawatts
https://…
This is an excellent post / case study and a lot here for even ‘experienced’ family historians to learn. #genealogy #histodons @… @…
am 20.6.2026 ging es im exzellenten artikel des tages in der deutschen wikipedia mal um #sprachwissenschaft!
› https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Feedo…
#uspol
Assassination will not help! It'll martyr him, exacerbating the very problems you're trying to solve.
There is no shortcut to removing him. The only path forward is to vote for pro-impeachment candidates in November. #Assassination attempts will thwart this.
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RE: #Wikipedia’s founding and its early years in this piece is pretty good, a…
Realization that 90% of the time I'm searching "the internet" I'm actually looking for results from the same 10 websites. All of which have their own search. Like wikipedia. Or docs.python.org. And I already know which one I want to search.
Most of what I want from a unified search head can be delivered by parsing out some prefix (wp, pydoc) and redirecting the rest onward. No mouse. No UI.
Thinking a browser is unnecessary until a result url is selected - I just want https://qsapp.com.
An Irish person working at the vet asked us where we got the name 'Pangur' for our cat. Said it was a bit of an odd name. Wasn't sure how to pronounce it.
*sigh*
They really need to do a better job educating people here!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_Bán
Sexy Prime Conjecture 🫦
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy_primes#Sexy_prime_conjecture
Hindu temples and patrons too set aside religion, and invited the couple to play. Sringeri Sharada Peetha, a staunchly Hindu monastery, even made them its "Asthana Vidwans" (Scholars of the Institute/Court).
Indian gov also gave them the Padmashri #honor (2020).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Mahaboob_Subhani
“The Uncensored Library is a Minecraft server and map released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) […] as an attempt to circumvent censorship in countries without freedom of the press.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncensored_Library?wprov=sfti1#
Louise Boitard — Wikipédia
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Boitard
This top scorer at the world cup statistic is bollocks. Look how many games it took them to be at the top.
Just Fontaine did 13 goals in *one* world cup. He’s the true GOAT in that category! There’s no competition here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_Wo…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@oldbookillustrations/116628273052747452
Fue utilizada para la portada del último šlbum de Queen en vida de Freddie, Innuendo
Layoffs tomorrow at 7am
My boss signed off for the day (he's on Eastern time), and included his contact information "in case I lose my laptop password"
Feels like a riff on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates
"I am going outside and may [be som…
I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
Cool visitor on my wall (in Bochum, Germany) right now: a #PaleTussock or Buchen-Streckfuß: #butterfly I had never seen before in a second ...
Nie wieder werde ich behaupten, dass die E-Mails, die die University of Edinburgh an ihre Alumni verschickt, nutzlos sind. Heute habe ich echt was daraus gelernt: automation bias.
Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even…
I heard of zopfli and brotli, but guetzli and jpegli were new to me 🤔.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guetzli
https://en.wikipedia.…
Siege of Sarajevo - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sarajevo
Perhaps they should have signed it in Compiègne? Unfortunately Foch's railway carriage was later burned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_22_June_1940
Randomly listening to some Childish Gambino got me thinking of the "This is America" video, and I looked up how its Wikipedia article describes the reaction at the time, and man, 2018 is a bygone era, so different from today.
In my profile picture, you see Minerva, the goddess of craft, poetry and wisdom, among many other things; she stands supportive and protective with people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
It's a statue in Stuttgart, which lost its raised hand, so I put mine there, waving a friendly &…
Heute auf der Wikipedia- Startseite, in der Rubrik 'Schon gewusst?'
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollapsologie
wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
Happy Tukey day! Born this day, 1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey
reading about a musician-founded anarchist/utopian commune on the south shore of long island in... 1851? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(community)
from my link log —
The alias method for efficiently sampling from a discrete probability distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
saved 2020-07-02
Learning new #GIS concepts while #grading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler's_hikin…
Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸
Dutch far-right politician Markuszower, who said he wanted military police to use violence against Palestinian refugees at the border, is an immigrant born in Tel Aviv and has both Israeli and Dutch nationalities.
He was twice labelled a risk to integrity of government by Dutch security agency AIVD.
Source: https://en…
"Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s. The New York Times described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
@… du hattest mal dieses Mysterium mit den Runen, und ich hab gerade ein Auto mit denen gesehen, auf dem stand direkt über den Runen dieser Spruch. Vielleicht hilft das beim lösen? https://en.wikipedia.o…
Heute lernte ich unter anderem hiervon: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schabbat-Modus
Behold, and harken! When I was a wee child, this was my Google.
Its firmware was not upgradable, it needed no charging and was always on.
Dewey, the lord of Decimals, had a system, and it _was_ good.
Encyclopedias were our more formally fact-checked Wikipedia. Microfilm and microfiche the optical technologies we used to access compressed information.
Turn the filmstrip when you hear the beep.
Starmer warns against chaos; he's trying the Cameron scare tactic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_with_Ed_Miliband
https://…
75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 3144 nodes and 11059 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, …
Saying "oh the suffragettes did it the right way, not like these people" may have set a new bar for oblivious idiocy.
The suffragettes had squads of undercover women trained in Judo and packing truncheons in their petticoats that fought against cops in the streets.
They burned down a cricket stadium because it didn't let women in except for cigarette girls.
MAGA DoJ would indict them as Terrorists
My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I took a look at the English Wikipedia article on the recent 7.8M 2026 Mindanao earthquake.
https://technology.inquirer.net/147392/diving-deep-into-an-earthquake-wikipedia-article
(Inqui…
heh the acronym expansions of assa abloy are funny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assa_Abloy#Name
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 84 nodes and 112 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
50 years ago #OTD NASA's #Viking1 landed on #Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1 - here is part of the first image sent from the surface. The camera was a horizontally rotating scanner moving left to right: the early vertical columns are brighter because dust from touch-down hadn't settled yet.
wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
edit_wikinews: Wikipedia news edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about news events. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 2511 nodes and 7745 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
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.s…
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.s…
dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
dbpedia_occupation: Person-Occupation Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and occupations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 229307 nodes and 250945 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
dbpedia_occupation: Person-Occupation Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and occupations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 229307 nodes and 250945 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
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.s…
wikipedia_link: Wikipedia links (2016)
Networks of hyperlinks among articles on Wikipedia, for all available languages. A directed edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 371025 nodes and 8985762 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
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
https:/…
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.s…
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.s…
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
https:/…
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
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.s…