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Gosh, you wait for one piece of insanity and then two come along at once. But this time its personal. So those interested in wiki's inards can wade through the gore at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Wheelwar regarding User:Giano_II. If you need...
Posted on July 2, 2008 6:48 PM • 11 Comments
Have a look at this edit, where Lumidek loses his rag. Slightly less wacko, but not losing touch with the septic, the AAPG seems to be coming closer to reality whilst being careful not to get there. Meanwhile someone calling...
Posted on August 29, 2007 6:07 PM • 10 Comments
From The Onion, Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not. Sadly the actual article is boringly factual (or it was; I've had a go at improving it but I doubt it will last. I...
Posted on August 23, 2007 5:12 PM • 5 Comments
Coming back from the pub, I find the edit comment Someone added a bunch of none sence. First of all, it's not a giant beaver the creates the wind. Second, it's impossible that the people you mentioned knew about beavers....
Posted on February 21, 2007 6:30 PM • 6 Comments
Why is a Stoat like a Bus? Because you wait days for a post and then 3 come along at once :-) Its been ages since I've posted any wiki stuff (ahem: apart from Citizendium, tangenitally). Mostly because the climate...
Posted on October 17, 2006 4:55 PM • 1 Comments
And you can read about it at http://citizendium.org/. Predicatably enough, wikipedia already has an article on it. Will it fly? Who knows... [Update: Nature has an article on this, featuring a brief appearence by yours truely... I don't get to...
Posted on September 19, 2006 3:21 PM • 3 Comments
I made it into a recent article in The New Yorker. Predictably enough its not about science, but about wikipedia. Whats interesting about it is how hard internal wiki "politics" are for outsiders to understand. Despite talking to the author...
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Posted on August 1, 2006 3:37 PM • 1 Comments
[[Global Warming]] became a "featured article" on wikipedia about a month ago (long tedious arguments about the stylistic wording, and about the reference format) and today was the "featured article of the day" on the front page. Which has lead,...
Posted on June 21, 2006 1:38 PM • 2 Comments
A while ago, Nature did a study comparing wikipedia to Britannica (you can read my take on it here - oh, just look at the title I used :-). Now it seems that Britannica weren't very happy about the results,...
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Posted on March 23, 2006 3:39 PM • 3 Comments
The Economist has a survey on Open-source business (subs req). The usual suspects - apache, linux - come up, and of course so does wikipedia. And naturally enough (since this is a pile of econ journos who know b*gg*r all...
Posted on March 17, 2006 12:17 PM • 1 Comments
I was invited to give a talk to CHASE - Cambridge Hi-tech Association of Small Enterprises - nice people even if they haven't quite got round to updating their web site yet :-) The subject was to be global warming...
Posted on March 12, 2006 4:10 PM • 5 Comments
Wikipedia reached its one millionth article today, and I was there on IRC watching as it happened... although actually I'd popped into the kitchen to do the washing up at the crucial moment. Predictably enough the millionth article itself is...
Posted on March 1, 2006 11:23 PM • 0 Comments
I am a Dragon. I emerge from my Egg. More...
