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Month: March 2010

Link pile.

  • Steven Walling: Why Wikipedians Are Weird is beautiful and true, and you must watch it. (I have been at a pub with a trivia quiz where the table of Wikipedians didn’t enter because “it wouldn’t be fair.”)
  • Does Wikipedia Suck? A highly effective assignment to teach students the true value of Wikipedia. (It is what it is, not what it isn’t.)

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Author David GerardPosted on Sunday 28th March, 2010Categories wiki1 Comment on Link pile.

Trending topics!

This is a nice toy from Data Wrangling. So far only covering English Wikipedia, though I’ve enquired as to whether they’ve any plans to cover other WMF wikis (as stats.grok.se does).

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Author David GerardPosted on Thursday 25th March, 2010Categories wikiLeave a comment on Trending topics!
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