Erik Zachte compiled data from a day in May 2011 into an interesting set of animations and maps to show update activity as it occurred during the day. via stats.wikimedia.org
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Leading data visualization firm JESS3 produced the video. "To be able to educate people about how and why Wikipedia works was the challenge"
The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it's also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.
The following visualization represents the 100 longest discussions that did not result in the deletion of the article (i.e the article was kept, merged or redirected):
via notabilia.net(Click here for an interactive graphics)
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Effectiveness of donation appeals on Wikipedia.
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Reading the entire English Wikipedia: It's possible.
If you don't like the idea of not sleeping for almost 15 years, here's an alternative plan. If you dedicated "only" 12 hours per day to reading Wikipedia and you read at average reading speed of 300 words per minute, it would take you 30 years to read 1447 volumes of Wikipedia. For Howard Stephen Berg it would take 130 days or a little bit more than 4 months.via www.sharenator.comPublished on Power of Data Visualization. Note: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
You're looking at team Nodelay's entry into Node Knockout, a 48hr programming contest to explore node.js. They decided to transform the output of Wikipedia's IRC edit tracking bot into a tidy stream of JSON objects, annotated with information from external datasources, and then visualize that stream.
via nodelay.no.de(Warning: takes lot of CPU resource; but interesting to look)
Ever wonder how Wikipedia maintains such a high degree of quality material on any given subject? They have an army of unpaid content curators. They also have you.
The all-volunteer team of curators is constantly checking new submissions to ensure they meet the rules that Wikipedia established that were designed to prevent self-promotion, that articles only reference reliable sources, and establish levels of 'notability' for things that get their own article. Those that don’t meet the guidelines, they remove.via www.flickr.com
It is projected that the amount of digital information that will be created in 2010 could fill 75 billion fully-loaded 16 GB Apple iPads. Stacked on a field the size of Wembley Stadium, that "iStack" would reach height over 4 miles high; nearly 280,000 iPads in every layer.
via wikibon.org
Love it or hate it, Wikipedia seems to be an ever growing, increasingly popular fixture of the net (and it seems that many more people love it than hate it these days).
via www.huffingtonpost.com