wikipedia popularity and wikipedia trends

Today, Google updated its Google+ app for Android to get up to speed with all of the changes announced during last week's I/O Developers conference. In all, there were 41 new updates, including a new stream, photos experience and Hangouts. The Android version has all of that, and one new feature -- a new location section.

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There was a large increase in the numbers viewing financially-related pages on the website directly before large falls on Wall Street, the Warwick Business School found.

Google Panda, the Damoclean algorithm to stop webmasters from rolling out nonsensical, keyword-laden advertising networks, is about to receive a sizable upgrade. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s anti-spam agency, stated: “Gone are the days that one could take a passage from Wikipedia and outsource the task of copy-spinning to Indian sweat-shops, and not get caught. [...]...

(Phys.org) —The show of shows: A realtime map that you can watch, and watch, which displays where in the word people are editing articles for Wikipedia. We are almost tempted to issue a warning here that the map we are about to discuss could be the most addictive Internet go-to you have experienced, and to please view with caution. Two programmers, Stephen LaPorte and...

In den vergangenen Minuten bearbeitete jemand auf Wikipedia die “list of killer shark films”, während eine andere Person in Amsterdam den Eintrag für “Amsterdam” änderte. Die Welt ist permanent am herumeditieren von Wikipedia, ob für “Hairtransplantation” oder „Eibach (Dillenburg)“. Auf der Wikipedia Recent Changes Map kann man in Echtzeit beobachten,...

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....

Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi's "Wikipedia Recent Changes Map" plots anonymous edits to Wikipedia on a world-map in realtime, based on the location of the user (only anonymous users are identified by IP address, so they're the only ones whose locations can be estimated). It's a hypnotic view into Wikipedia's casual users and vandals, as [...]    

Regrettably, the Wikipedia entry for "Citation needed" ("a common editorial remark on Wikipedia, which has become used to refer to Wikipedia in wider popular culture") doesn't include any actual assertions tagged with [citation needed]. On July 4, 2007, the webcomic xkcd published a comic which depicted a protestor holding up a "citation needed" sign during [...]    ...

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of the Internet, is a constant work in progress. Its articles are being crowd-edited every minute by scores of people around the world. Now, thanks to two programmers, you can see what articles are being edited in real time, with every edit conveniently displayed on a world map. Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi created the map, and it's...

You know that shiny new iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4 in your pocket? You probably call it a cellphone, right? Well, Newt Gingrich says you're wrong. Gingrich recently posted a three-minute video arguing modern cellphones shouldn't be called cellphones at all. "Think about it," petitions Gingrich, who's been attempting to shape himself as a Republican thought leader on...

"Here at Gingrich Productions, we've spent weeks figuring out," ponders Newt Gingrich. "What do you call this?" It's a phone, Newt. "But think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone." Sigh.Read more...    

It’s a rare fall rainy day in Palo Alto and SAP Executive Board Member Dr. Vishal Sikka is as sick as a dog. It’s less than a week until SAP Sapphire in Madrid and the community around him are like a worrying family. I had told them that it is okay. I could make the trip another time. But they were insistent I make the trip. Fast forward to May. It has been several...

A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of  Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but could go as far back as 1999. The domain name is parked and not surprisingly goes to a page full of adult links as S & M is...

In this episode of Gweek, I talked to Ruben Bolling and Nate DiMeo. Ruben Bolling is the creator of “Tom the Dancing Bug,” the weekly comic strip that premieres every Wednesday on Boing Boing. “Tom the Dancing Bug” has won many awards and is a multiple Harvey Award nominee for Best Comic Strip. You can [...]    

Google has updated its Google Earth Android app to version 7.1, bringing several important improvements, most notably the support for Street View If you want to explore the Earth from the street level, zoom into an area and the Pegman — the little yellow guy signifying the availability of Street View — will appear in the right hand corner. Drag and drop him into a...

Have you heard the buzz flying around Swarmageddon 2013? Billions of cicadas will blanket the east coast of the United States this year, spurring an epidemic of the heebie-jeebies. The large, humming insects emerge from the ground every 17 years (or 13, depending on the species) and, after nearly two decades in the dirt, these bugs are ready to party. And by party, we...

Mondays aren't always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun -- and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of technology and hip-hop. First, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg signed up for a verified profile on Andreessen Horowitz-backed "hip-hop Wikipedia" RapGenius to help decode the preamble to her best-selling business book...

Eloquence writes "Remember the WikiReader? It was pitched as a device that would contain the text of the entire English Wikipedia, and run on two AAA batteries for months. Unfortunately it was sold to the wrong audience: people who already have smartphones, tablets and laptops. At a cost of $20 per device, Aislinn Dewey and Victor Grigas (who works for Wikimedia) are trying...

When was the last time you talked about Acer? Never? Me too. The company, which is the fourth largest PC maker in the world by the way, announced the Acer Aspire R7 this morning. It's a mighty morphing Windows 8 portable. Like the Lenovo Yoga, it features versatile hinges that allow the computer to take different forms. The Aspire R7 is not the next big thing. No one...

If you want to take a stand over tax, Google will only notice if it doesn't get your attention. Here are some usable alternativesWant to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? From its humble beginnings as a project at Stanford University, the company has grown into one which has become almost unavoidable online – and in some cases offline,...

Die "Zeit" beschäftigt sich mit Googles Datenbrille und spricht mit Uli Hoeneß über Uli Hoeneß. Die "Welt" prüft Sexismusvorwürfe gegen Wikipedia. Und Brian de Palma erklärt in der "Süddeutschen Zeitung", warum er seinen neuen  Erotikthriller "Passion" nicht digital, sondern auf Film drehte.

No, that's not a joke. Rap Genius, the self-described "hip-hop Wikipedia," announced a spin-off service at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday called News Genius that intends to explain breaking news stories through user-generated annotations in the same way that it does with rap lyrics. While this marks the first time that Rap Genius has talked about a news-focused section,...

Last month I had a conversation with Dale Grover (co-founder of Maker Works in Ann Arbor, Michigan -- read his profile at Make) about the late author Nevil Shute. Shute is best known for the novel On the Beach (about a dying Earth after a global nuclear war) but we discussed a lesser-known novel of [...]    

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Nabilla Benattia banished from Wikipedia because she is of no "encyclopedic interest."    

TIP: mouseover to animate; don't mouseover if you have photosensitive epilepsy. Five years ago today, the man who first synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) died at 102 years old. There's an informative Wikipedia article here, and the Albert Hofman Foundation website is here. The 5-year anniversary is the one where you take 5 tabs. Rainbow [...]    

OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia-like crowdsourced mapping service, announced a couple of changes today that will make it easier for anybody to contribute. Starting today, you can easily suggest corrections when you browse maps on OpenStreetMap. In the spirit of crowdsourcing, these proposed corrections will be farmed out to the service’s volunteers. Then the organizations,...

Wikipedia just wouldn't be the same without its pictures, but someone has to go out and take 'em. Now you can help, armed with nothing but a smartphone and some stuff to shoot. Read more...    

Not all of you, just the ones who decided that it was a good idea to start removing women from the category “American Novelists” and putting them into a new category: “American Women Novelists.” You guys. What the hell, man? What’s wrong with you? – From Amy Letter and Brian Spears, addressing the gradual removal [...]

Here's a nifty Wikipedia entry: List of British words not widely used in the United States. One must be very careful not to confuse one's "bell-ends" with one's "fag ends." (HT: @FlaixEnglish)    

Foursquare recently announced it has grown to 33 million users, but another, albeit older, location-based app called Life360 just crossed a milestone of its own: 34 million users. Yes, this family locator utility is now bigger than Foursquare - at least in terms of registered users. To be fair, the companies don't disclose their actives.

Diego A. Manrique lamenta la incapacidad de articular un discurso que llegue una mayoría de "pequeñas minorías"

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, "I thought you'd be interested in a new browser extension and webtool from the Sunlight Foundation called Churnalism. It extracts article text from any site you'd like it to run on and compares it against a corpus of press releases, articles from Wikipedia and much more. If a significant [...]    

This is the first story in a four-part, weekly series on taxonomy and speciation. It's meant to help you as you participate in Armchair Taxonomist — a challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life to bring scientific descriptions of animals, plants, and other living things out from behind paywalls and onto the Internet. Participants can earn [...]    

Trouble is, a lot of information about living things is hidden behind paywalls or scattered across random sources where the general public can't easily get to it. That's where you come in! Help fill the Encyclopedia of Life's open-source database with information about animals, plants, fungi, protozoa, and bacteria.    

Editor's note: Adam Nash is the chief operating officer of Wealthfront. He was formerly executive-in-residence with Greylock Partners and VP of product management at LinkedIn. Given the incredible volatility we’ve seen lately in the Bitcoin and gold markets, there has been a resurgence of discussion about bubbles. This topic is always top of mind in...

La autoedición no para de crecer. La distancia entre autor y lector se acorta cada vez más y las editoriales encuentran en las plataformas de autopublicación nuevas voces y vías de difusión

Die Produktion dauerte nur drei Tage, als Grundlagenwissen reichte ein Blick in Wikipedia: Die Comedy-Webseite „Funny Or Die“ hat die erste Filmbiografie über den Apple-Gründer Steve Jobs gratis ins Internet gestellt.

Over at House of Mirth, esteemed vernacular photo collector Robert E. Jackson posts about the allure of collecting cyanotypes with some wonderful examples. The ghostly image above is from the collection of Erin Waters. Jackson posted this fascinating bit from the cyanotype Wikipedia entry: The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered this procedure...

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) has robot competitions all over the United States. FIRST was founded by inventor Dean Kamen. According to Wikipedia he has said that the FIRST competition is the invention he is most proud of, and he predicts that the 1 million students who have taken part in the contests so far will be responsible for some...

It might be no surprise that immediately after the explosions at today’s Boston Marathon, social media sites became the best way for the public to obtain on-the-scene reports. But notably, it also became the best way for classic news media to report. Even more than that, the long minutes after the news broke showed just [...]

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) director Jamie Love -- formally James Packard Love -- is the brain behind the "$1 a day" HIV drugs that have saved millions of lives in Africa and other poor parts of the world. Basically, he went around asking, "How much would it cost to make this HIV medication if the patent cost was removed?" At first, no one could answer. After...

Jeden Tag streiten sich Schreiber auf Wikipedia über die richtige Wortwahl. Oft reicht ein Foto, um einen Autorenkrieg loszutreten. Auch die Einträge über Politiker ändern sich laufend. Besonders im Wahlkampf.

Forrester recently predicted that the online retail market will grow to $370 billion over the next four years, up from $231 billion this year -- a 10 percent compound annual growth rate. In other words, the message is clear: The eCommerce juggernaut ain't slowing down any time soon. In 2013, every business needs some kind of online presence; the problem, of course, is...

The MP for Streatham in South London is facing a new internet row, amid allegations he doctored his own Wikipedia page to include flattering comparisons with Barack Obama.

La Corte Suprema ordena la libertad inmediata de los últimos falsos acusados de asesinar en Chiapas a 45 indígenas en 1997

A rising star Labour frontbencher has been accused of setting up and editing his own page on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

In the end, the Streisand Effect prevailed, as you might expect, when a French domestic intelligence agency apparently browbeat a French citizen into removing content from Wikipedia. The attention caused the Wikipedia entry on a formerly obscure military radio site (English version) to leap in popularity not only in French, but in languages where it was formerly far less...

French agents at the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI), apparently turning their attention to Wikipedia for the first time in years, demanded last month that the Wikimedia Foundation delete an entry about a military radio relay station written in 2009. More »

Rising Labour star admits his aides might have set up up and edited his own page on Wikipedia.

A rising star Labour frontbencher has been accused of setting up and editing his own page on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

Here’s the thing about simplicity. It’s all relative. A developer’s idea of simplicity is different from a finance chief or a customer service agent. I run across a variety of startups in my daily work at TechCrunch. But few have that innate sense of elegance or the capability to abstract complexity to such an extent that anything else seems antiquated in comparison....

We all remember the last scene in The Godfather, where Michael Corleone is depicted as the next Don, taking over the role from his father as the figurehead of the mafioso Corleone family. As a viewer, we are partly left with a sense of relief -- finally, Don Corleone's wishes for his dynasty to carry on through his son will come true, Michael Corleone has finally accepted...

Rémi Mathis, président de l'association Wikimedia-France et administrateur de Wikipédia, a été convoqué puis menacé d'être placé en garde à vue s'il ne supprimait pas un article au motif qu'il contenait des éléments soi-disant classifiés.

saibot834 writes "The French domestic intelligence agency DCRI has forced a Wikipedia administrator to delete an article about a local military base. The administrator, who is also the president of Wikimédia France, has been threatened by the agency with immediate reprisals after his initial refusal to comply. Following a discussion on the administrator's noticeboard,...

First of all, I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the English speaking world and read Ellen Forney’s Marbles. And yes, it’s totally fascinating and deeply affecting, but I’m not telling you anything you hadn’t already heard in December’s Best Damn Comics of the year, so I’ll save you that here. Also, it’s worth [...]    

[caption id="attachment_893" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The REVAi/G-Wiz i electric car charging at an on-street station in London (Image: Wikipedia Commons)"] [/caption]Ever since Gordon Moore came up with the ubiquitous law bearing his name, it has been applied to paradigms far beyond those which it was intended for. This is perhaps not surprising; the history...

WASHINGTON -- Forget big banks. In the eyes of one conservative group, Attorney General Eric Holder has failed in his duty to take down big porn.Morality in Media put Holder at the top of its “Dirty Dozen List” of “top pornography facilitators” this week, placing the nation’s leading law enforcement official in the company of Comcast, Facebook, the American Library...

A political cartoon from Eric Sandstrom. Sheldon Adelson wants to stay off-camera. Donald Trump yanks his Bill Maher lawsuit. Colbert will host fundraisers for his sister. The New York Times needs an ad sales boss. The Tribune Co. appoints a new COO. Fox News runs into more ratings trouble. Wikipedia wreaks havoc on Michael Moynihan. And cable companies are the worst. ...

From Wikipedia: "English: A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange fire. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; now in the British Museum." File:Assyrian battering ram.jpg (Thanks, Justin!)

Benjamin Mako Hill writes, "Last year, I participated in a discussion on Wikipedia that led to the deletion of an article about the "Institute for Cultural Diplomacy." Because I edit Wikipedia using my real name, the ICD was able to track me down. Over the last month or so, they threated me with legal action [...]

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Muenster cheese is not a crime. Image: Wikipedia Veniamin Balika, 34, of Plainfield, IL, was arrested in New Jersey after cops caught him driving a refrigerated truck carrying 42,000 pounds of stolen Muenster cheese. It was definitely nacho average crime. The cheesy hot goods were produced by K&K Cheese of Cashton, WI with milk from [...]

Gardner explained she would pursue advocacy efforts to combat corporate and government control of the Internet.

Sue Gardner will leave the Wikimedia Foundation to spend more time directly advocating for an open Internet.

El problema es que exploten pocos: eso proporciona excusas a los carceleros del régimen

Businesses optimize for efficiency. Customers optimize for happiness.

Sorry to be such a nudge, but as I write this before heading off to yet another in a long lifetime of Passover Seders, I...

Luna Lee performs Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" on a gayageum.

The folks who measure how many people visit websites have been slow to count up mobile Web, smartphone and tablet users. But comScore is catching up, with its new "Multi-Platform" rankings.

An anonymous reader writes "A Google engineer visiting Vietnam discovered a large portion of Vietnamese high school students might be able to pass a Google interview. According to TFA (and his blog), students start learning computing as early as grade 2. According to the blogger and another senior engineer, about half of the students in an 11th grade class he visited would...

                          Euro Watergate Hotel Residences, LLC Watergate Holdings, LLC, filed a UDRP on the domain names TheWatergateHotel.com and WaterGateHotel.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Of course Watergate is the “home of the political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June...

In an age when research is easier than ever and entire sentences can be copied and pasted without second thought, even the most venerable nonfiction writers can find themselves accused of plagiarism. That's appears to be the case with noted author and naturalist Jane Goodall, who was forced to apologize this week after a Washington Post investigation found Goodall's...