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Watch The World Edit Wikipedia In Real Time
In the past few seconds, someone from Canada edited the Wikipedia page for The Hangover Part III while another person in Fresno, California tweaked the page for Armenian cuisine. It keeps on going. The world is constantly editing Wikipedia, whether it be for a ‘List of Playstation 2 games’ or ‘Status of same-sex marriage’ or ‘Airbnb’, we’re all crowdsourcing are smartness. And you can watch where the world is getting smarter in real time.
What’s The Most Bizarre Wikipedia Page You’ve Ever Found?
Given the right state of mind, enough time on your hands and a can-do attitude, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into bizarre, horrifying and very likely entirely fabricated black holes of information. Dark corners and seedy underbellies abound, making it virtually impossible to find all of the site’s most curiously unsettling stores of information.
How Much Would Wikipedia Weigh?
The geniuses behind Vsauce scientifically answered a few questions, as only they can, about whether it makes sense to eat yourself if you’re ever suffering from starvation, how does hair know when to stop growing, what eye floaters are, how much would Wikipedia weigh and more.
The Biggest Wikipedia Traffic Spikes Since 2010 Prove We’re All Morbid
Over the past three years, Wikipedia member West.andrew.g bas been analysing the weird and wonderful data traffic on the English-language Wikipedia. In the the latest edition of Wikipedia’s community-managed newspaper, The Signpost, he’s revealed the biggest traffic spikes on the site within that time — in the process proving that we’re all morbid sports fan.
Using The Vast Resources Of The Internet To Craft A Computerised Nostradamus
As a natural side-effect of its use as a medium for information storage and communication, the internet has become an extensive record of human history, at least in the last few decades. It’s understandable, then, why two scientists would be working on a way to use this massive repository of our existence to predict future events.
Study: The Expert Editors Of Wikipedia Make It Harder To Read
Despite carrying user-generated content, Wikipedia has often been criticised for being tough to edit — even by its co-founder Jimmy Wales. But researchers have found another way in which the Web 2.0 wonder might leave people gnashing their teeth: it’s much harder to read than that old favourite of doorstep salesmen, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Have You Ever Donated Money To Wikipedia?
Every so often, Wikipedia — the great internet resource that everyone uses — starts asking people for donations. This year a gigantic morning pee-colored banner pops up asking for a few bucks so the lights can stay on and we can all get free information. It’s a great cause! Can you imagine the internet without Wikipedia? But have any of you guys ever donated?
