Originality/value – While a great deal of attention has been paid to teaching with multi-week Wikipedia assignments and coursework, evidence from this project suggests that Wikipedia-related activities can be used effectively within much narrower time constraints, including during brief one-shot ...
I challenge journalists and bloggers to go beyond their low-effort, safe-and-easy cheap-shot “evil business” attacks on our marketing and pricing ($139 for our 1200-page gold-embossed leatherette library-edition Neothink®Manuscript) and instead put out effort, read my father’s Neo-Tech...
Seemingly, this FDC decision was the only one that was not made unanimously. Moreover, the FDC did allot exactly the amount of funds the Wikimedia Foundation had applied for, while in many other cases it reduced the amounts. In the case of the oldest and by far largest chapter ...
It is possible to automate steps 3-6 via a wrapper script namedmirrorzim.sh. It will download the latest snapshot of specified language (if needed), unpack it, and add it to IPFS. To see how the script behaves try running it on one of the smallest wikis, such ascu: ...
I was skeptical at first about their Wikipedia writers for hire, but I decided to give it a shot. To my surprise, the experience exceeded my expectations! Their team was not only professional but also incredibly knowledgeable about Wikipedia's guidelines and requirements. J Jerry Bella I can...
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“While English, the most prevalent Wikipedia, has 3.4 million articles, even the second most-popular language, German, has only one-third as many articles,” Kumaran says. “And there is a huge tail of more than 200 languages that have fewer than 100,000 articles each. It would be grea...
Unless you threaten its frog friend, of course, in which case it will find some way to murder you, possibly with a shotgun. 4 The Touch of a Leper You’ve Heard: Beware the touch of the leper because it can turn you into a zombie. Leprosy will jump to your skin and eat into...
more or less active depending on the trustworthiness they assign to the resource as well as the difference in reference quality. Third, making SIDE multilingual raises interesting research questions, such as the capabilities of performing cross-lingual citation improvements: given a claim in one ...
4 I still remember the audible gasp from a digital humanities conference audience when I showed a screenshot of the Microsoft Word “Insert from Wikipedia” feature. This signaled to me that many academics had no idea not only of Wikipedia’s ubiquity, but also the near impossibility of ...