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Wikipedia (sécurisé)

Wikipedia (sécurisé)

Collins Monthly wiki page Hits for zh.wikipedia for .wikipedia in month [based on analysed days]; requests counted by Squid servers . [ : also requests of bots/crawlers, reloads/~edits etc. are included; redirects split]; tips , hover figures! vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource! Urban Dictionary Pretty much none whatsoever Han-Teng Liao recently inquired about the effects of the unblocking of the Chinese Wikipedia on the traffic volume directed to zh.wikipedia.org. He may be as amazed as I am that the effect in terms of number of page requests has been pretty much none whatsoever. The following three charts each show the number of page requests to the Chinese Wikipedia over the course of months, each at a different level of aggregation. Looking at these charts I can’t see anything that signifies at which exact date the custodians of orderly synchronized opinion forming opened the gates to the world at large, a world where expressions of misalignment and self-righteousness are a constant danger. Note: monthly figures have been normalized to 30 days for better comparison: figure for January is 30/31 of actual value, for February 30/29, etc. One question leads to another: in the above chart with hourly page requests a few points stand out (marked with larger symbols).

Purchase vBulletin, the most powerful forum software available. AcronymFinder Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth With little notice from the outside world, the community-written encyclopedia Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word “truth.” Why should we care? Because ­Wikipedia’s articles are the first- or second-ranked results for most Internet searches. Type “iron” into Google, and Wikipedia’s article on the element is the top-ranked result; likewise, its article on the Iron Cross is first when the search words are “iron cross.” Google’s search algorithms rank a story in part by how many times it has been linked to; people are linking to Wikipedia articles a lot. This means that the content of these articles really matters. Many people, especially academic experts, have argued that Wikipedia’s articles can’t be trusted, because they are written and edited by volunteers who have never been vetted. These policies have become the social contract for Wikipedia’s army of apparently insomniac volunteers. So how do the Wikipedians decide what’s true and what’s not?

Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader Changelog: Slashdotted! Fixed bugs with "extreme" links in some wiki text Introduced extra script to install the templates used by a page (improves rendering of some pages) It appears that woc.fslab.de (the site offering the standalone wiki renderer) is down. I found an article whose wiki text caused the woc.fslab.de parser to abort - modified show.pl to use the plain wiki content in that case. Robin Paulson notified me that the same process can be used to install Wiktionary offline! Ivan Reyes found out why some wiki texts caused the woc.fslab.de parser to fail, mediawiki_sa.tar.7z updated. Meng WANG made some modifications for searching in the Chinese (and probably other non-English) wikipedias. James Somers added caching of LaTEX-made images. The woc.fslab.de repository is apparently no longer accessible... Executive summary It's strong points: Very fast searching Keyword (actually, title words) based searching Search produces multiple possible articles: you can choose amongst them Follow me...

Welcome to VisualWikipedia! One planet, under wikipedia Google Maps displays geographic Wikipedia articles now! The map is marked with Ws representing wikipedia articles. The location of each W is determined by the latitute/longitude coordinates on the wiki page. It's kind of amazing how thoroughly wikipedia has colonized the world. In general, whenever I see an incredibly detailed, obscure wikipedia article, it sort of reminds me of how explorers must have felt when they found almost every corner of the earth inhabited. Wow. The problem with this particular application is that some Ws are big and some are small -- and the size seems to depend on the precision of the geotagging. Or maybe that's because the building is tagged in "cityscale" units? Update: Google seems to be following Wikipedia's own guidelines, which say (rather imprecisely) that locations should be tagged with a degree of precision appropriate to their size. Previously in mapped wikis... (Meanwhile, Yahoo maps continues not to integrate with Flickr.

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