Wikipedia

Shakespeare to Tim Tebow: Top Hourly Wikipedia Pages for 2011

December 19, 2011

I had grand plans.  This was supposed to be a cool looking visualization.  Over 2011 I downloaded nearly a terabyte of raw Wikipedia page access stats.  And recently I had a python script running for 3 weeks around the clock crunching the data.   This was going to be cool.  But I ran out of time [...]

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How I think Wikipedia works

June 30, 2009

I have a mental model of how Wikipedia works and behaves. This may not reflect reality, but it is how I, as an end-user, expect Wikipedia to behave. I think these are reasonable expectations regarding things like standards of proof and balance and that if the real Wikipedia differs substantially from these expectations, then we [...]

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A Review of the Wikipedia Article on ODF

January 27, 2007

As I had done last week with the Wikipedia article on Office Open XML (OOXML), I have taken a read through the article on OpenDocument Format (ODF). My aim was to do some fact checking and make some suggestions on some additional references that might be included. In some case I’ve made additional usage or [...]

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Crocodile Tears

January 25, 2007

By now everyone on the planet with an internet connection knows about Rick Jelliffe, the blogger Microsoft offered to pay to make the Office Open XML Wikipedia page “more objective”. (It is unclear what criteria Microsoft uses to determine which bloggers are given free laptops and which ones get offered cash.) In any case, I [...]

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