After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion.
Wikipedia
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Decade-Long Battle for “Yogurt” vs. “Yoghurt” on Wikipedia
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Wikipedia views and every line of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…
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Map of the most popular people replacing the cities they lived in
For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…
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Algorithms to fix underrepresentation on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…
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Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
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How different languages represent van Gogh
Christian Laesser takes an abstract look at how different languages represent Vincent van…
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Past and future predictions of when the world will end
Wikipedia has a list of predicted dates for when apocalypse strikes, because of…
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A timeline of history
“I wish there was a timeline browser for all the historical events documented…
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Entire English Wikipedia in physical print
The exhibit From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! opened last week with a hit of…
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English versus Chinese color descriptors
Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
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Tron-style dashboard shows Wikipedia and GitHub streams
As a fun learning exercise, Rob Scanlon made a dashboard that shows GitHub…
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Listening to Zen-like Wikipedia edits
It’s easy to think of online activity as a whirlwind of chatter and…
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Map of live Wikipedia changes
On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…
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Map: Laconic history of the world
Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world:
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Wikipedia is dominated by male editors
After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…
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Browse the web of Wikipedia with Wikiweb iPad app
While we’re on the subject of the web that is Wikipedia, four-man, Baltimore-based…
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Graphing every idea in history →
Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on Wikipedia…
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World sentiment mapped, based on Wikipedia
Kalev H. Leetaru animated world sentiment over time, based on Wikipedia entries.
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Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia
TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…
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Geography of Wikipedia edits
A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia.…