JESS3 made an interesting infographic and video about the evolution of Wikipedia. It’s crazy to think that the online encyclopedia has only been around for 10 years. Thanks, Wikipedia! You’ve helped me with many an inquiry.
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Ashley Baccam
2 years ago
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Creepy as it may be, one thing is undeniable: their campaign is working.
UPROXX
2 years ago
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It seems that the “personal appeals” from Jimmy Wales and individual Wikipedia authors are finally starting to pay off. (Via InformationIsBeautiful.) Compared to previous attempts to get money, this latest effort has been tremendously successful, bringing in over $47k a day on average.
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Social Media
2 years ago
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There’s a certain desperation to his banner ads.
CollegeHumor
2 years ago
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An all-new dance smash hit made from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wale’s’ personal appeal.
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Peter Coffin
2 years ago
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Oh hey look, it’s Jimmy Wales. Anyone else?
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
2 years ago
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Is it just us, or are those Wikipedia fundraising banner ads getting a little bit tense?
TheSmokingJacket
2 years ago
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Brilliant Wikipedia list of the day: “The 13 non-pornographic, English language films containing the most spoken uses of the word fuck (or one of its derivatives).”
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Say OMG
2 years ago
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That’s 12 volumes, by the way. Good nighttime reading.
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zombieianbrooks
2 years ago
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For about one minute yesterday, Wikipedia’s Shark Week page said Shark Week is a week-long series dedicated to chinchillas. Just after ratsoff took this screen grab, it was fixed. At least people now know the truth, that’s all that matters.
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MelisBuzzFeed
2 years ago
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Wikipedia and Google agree; it must be true.
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Dino Ignacio
3 years ago
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Guess the blanks of ten random fragments from the depths of information that is Wikipedia.
Lindsey W.
3 years ago
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According the the “experts” at Wikipedia, It would appear that of all the terrible and monstrous vampires in history, Count Chocula has the fewest weaknesses. This implies that he is the strongest vampire ever, you’ve been warned.
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Tanner Ringerud
3 years ago
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has increasingly drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.
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3 years ago
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Founded on the concept that anyone could change its content, the online encyclopedia is requiring reviews on articles about living people after embarrassing incidents.
NYTimes
3 years ago
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Either by chance, or because Wikipedia editors woke up and had a tall cup of 5th grade coffee this morning, today’s featured article happens to be Gropecunt Lane. Interestingly enough, it’s a street name in some English towns where hookers used to hang out. I get that.
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Brian Ries
3 years ago
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New York Times journalist David Rohde was kidnapped by the Taliban 7 months ago, but the story’s only just seeing the light of day, following Rohde’s daring escape from his captors. Keeping the story quiet was the result of a collaborative cover-up between The New York Times and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to make Rohde seem unimportant to his Taliban kidnappers. Meanwhile, Wikipedia’s community is pissed. Free Speech debate!
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Jack Shepherd
3 years ago
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How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one — if that one is Michael Jackson.
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3 years ago
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Wikipedia’s featured articles, this 5,000-page printed Wikipedia book is not only fully-functional, but also probably contains a few hilarious Easter-Egg inaccuracies.
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Lindsey W.
3 years ago
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A nifty site that tracks and ranks individual Wikipedia articles. A pretty awesome resource to see what people are trying to learn more about… aside from Buzzfeed, of course.
Lindsey W.
4 years ago
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Much of the same obsessive building strategy as Desktop Tower Defense, but with a much wider range of possible strategies. Deeply addictive. You know you love it, so please share it with the people you love!!
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Scott Lamb
4 years ago
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Aaron Swartz challenges Wikipedia’s co-founder who claims that the user-submitted site is actually the creation of a small community. They both agree that 2% of Wikipedia users (about 1400 people) have done 73.4% of all the edits on the site. But Aaron Swartz’s analysis shows that the actual useful information and expertise comes from a huge group of experts who rarely contribute. In a nutshell: A small, active community organizes and obsessively edits wikipedia BUT a random group of experts provide most of the real content.
Lindsey W.
4 years ago
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Remember Chickipedia? Well, now there’s Dickipedia, a wiki of Dicks.
Matt Stopera
4 years ago
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Firefox add-on that brings up a relevant Wikipedia article along with your Google search results. The Googlepedia Firefox add-on brings up a relevant, unobtrusive Wikipedia article on all of your Google searches. The user reviews are stellar, and if you use it enough and you’ll never lose a fact-based wager again.
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John Redmond
4 years ago
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