Tuesday, December 4, 2007
This was to be expected …. secret mailing lists for administrators …. Even the reasons sound familiar: “Due to the nature of this investigation, our normal open discussion isn’t really feasible,” she said. “Please take to arbitration if you disagree with this decision.” Recently, in another effort to quash “harassment,” several members of the Wikipedia […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wikicharts! The Top 20 articles: 28 788 286 쎂슱 0% 3.7225% 1. Main Page 862 857 쎂슱 2% 0.1116% 2. Wiki 394 571 쎂슱 3% 0.0510% 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 384 286 쎂슱 3% 0.0497% 4. Naruto 378 286 쎂슱 3% 0.0489% 5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 315 714 쎂슱 […]
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
N쎃스kyypi ilmestyneen tuo Tieteess쎃스 tapahtuu, jossa on miniteema “Wikipedia 쎢 monta n쎃스k쎃슶kulmaa avoimeen tietosanakirjaan” kirjoittajina Bo-Christer Bj쎃슶rk, Mikko V쎃스lim쎃스ki, Joonas Lyytinen, Timo Jyrinki, Tere Vad쎃슩n, Kari A. Hintikka, Juha Honkala ja Teemu Mikkonen. Koko homma l쎃슶ytyy pdf’nn쎃스 t쎃스쎃스lt쎃스. Samassa numerossa on Keijo Paunion ja Risto Santin tyly juttu huippuyliopistohankkeesta. Yksi kohta menee n쎃스in: Mik쎃스li esimerkiksi […]
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Veropedia: the best Wikipedia articles, financed by ads.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Teemu Leinonen was kind enough to invite Juha and me to collaborate on an article on some ideas on the Wikiversity; the draft is here. Teemu also participated the Wikimania 2007, pictures and video on the site.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
I have been irritating some of my friends by claiming that Wikipedia is “bigger” (more important, more beautiful) than the Internet. In the near future, the Internet will be vaguely remembered as something tahta had something to do with the early stages of the Wikipedia(s). Walking back from the MindTrek conference today, I finally came […]
… is what this algorhitm from UCSC Wiki Lab (what a magnificient entity!) does. It takes the edits of of an editor from the past 7 years and measures how long the edits have stayed unedited. The longer the better. So it is very similar to the “Puppy Smoothies” idea that suggested the measuring the […]
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
From Wired: Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses. An example can […]
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Kun Linus Torvalds vuonna 1991 julkaisi 쎢얓kumouksellisen쎢슝 k쎃스ytt쎃슶j쎃스rjestelm쎃스n idun keskustelupalstalle pyyt쎃스en porukkaa osallistumaan, syntyi nykyisin laajalti tunnettu vapaa Linux-k쎃스ytt쎃슶j쎃스rjestelm쎃스. Vastaavasti Jimmy Walesin ja Larry Sangerin perustaessa Wikipedian vuonna 2001, syntyi ensimm쎃스inen vapaasti muokattava tietosanakirja. Mutta molemmat innovaatiot synnyttiv쎃스t my쎃슶s jotain yleisemp쎃스쎃스. Osiltaan ne edistiv쎃스t ajatusta, jonka mukaan 쎢얓informaatio haluaa olla vapaata쎢슝 ja verkkosovellukset kuuluvat kaikille. […]
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in “Puppy Smoothies” Tom Cross suggests that the reliability of a Wikipedia article could be improved by marking the age of the text by using different colours. The older the text, the darker, or something. This way content thats has passed the check of many users could be identified. A new idea is to colour […]
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