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41 unusual facts about Wikipedia


Alan G. Rogers

On March 31, 2008, an anonymous attempt was made to remove information relating to Rogers's sexual orientation from the present Wikipedia article.

Alexander Halavais

To test Wikipedia as a trustworthy source of accurate information, Halavais created one of the more publicized examples of Wikipedia vandalism.

Amsterdam Museum

To celebrate the change of their name (dropping the word "Historical") and the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia on January 15, 2011, the museum "gave" Wikipedia a USB stick with the online photo collection to symbolize the public release of their high quality digital photographs made of their collection.

Aragonese Wikipedia

The Aragonese Wikipedia (or Biquipedia) is the Aragonese language edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project

The conference also discussed ways of exchanging information for the inclusion of older tropical cyclones, such as via compact disc or a Wikipedia-style website.

Bering Strait School District

All district schools are receiving basic training on how to involve students in adding content to Wikipedia as a meaningful part of classroom instruction, as opposed to simply consuming others' contributions.

Connecticut for Lieberman

In March, Korchin changed the Wikipedia article about the party to reflect his role and in response to Orman's claims.

Cornelius L. Reid

His influence in Germany can easily be seen in the German version of Wikipedia: see the article: "Gesangsregister".

Craig Gower

Italy coach Nick Mallett had initial reservations about selecting Gower after reading about his past alcohol-related misdemeanours in Gower's Wikipedia article.

Cure4Kids

Oncopedia combines the open participatory features of collaborative Web sites such as Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) with the benefits of an international editorial board composed of subject matter experts.

Danish Wikipedia

The Danish Wikipedia (Danish: Dansk Wikipedia) started on 1 February 2002 and is the Danish-language edition of Wikipedia.

David M. Gonzales

On March 20, 2007, Maribeth Kouts, daughter of William Walter Kouts, posted a message in Wikipedia asking for assistance in establishing contact with the Gonzales family while Kouts was still alive.

Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

It has been used as a source by many modern projects, including Wikipedia and the Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia.

Frontier Thesis

Wikipedia is a major presence on the electronic frontier, and the Wikipedia editors have been explicitly compared to the pioneers of Turner's American frontier in terms of their youth, aggressiveness, boldness, equalitarianism and rejection of limitations.

Hasbara Fellowships

In May 2007, Hasbara Fellowships (co-sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry) called for volunteers to counter a "dangerous trend" of Wikipedia entries portraying Israel in a "negative light".

Ignore all rules

"Ignore All Rules" is a "favorite" rule of the English-language open content encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Jim Nussle

His position brought national and international interest to his district, including the ONE Campaign, the lobbying group formed by Bono of the rock band U2.

On March 23, 2006 they placed a statement in Nussle's article on Wikipedia, regarding poverty in Africa and Nussle's budget influence, hoping to influence Nussle.

Ken Ruettgers

Students found out that he had been a football player when they found his Wikipedia entry.

Klemen Žumer

"Volitve poslancev iz Slovenije v Evropski parlament 2009", Wikipedia, Ljubljana, 1 May 2009.

Main Page

Welcome to Wikipedia,

Mangrove tree distribution

This Wikipedia page presents an overview of global Mangrove Forest biome trends in mangrove ecoregions distribution, as well as the cause of such changes.

Mark Cojuangco

As the main proponent of the Bill is Representative Mark Cojuangco's presentation at the Congressional hearing on February 2, 2009 came under scrutiny from the Bill's oppositors for citing Wikipedia articles about nuclear plants in other countries and quotes from non-experts like Patrick Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986, to argue for the re-commissioning of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.

Michel Serres

Serres is a vocal enthusiast for freely accessible knowledge, especially Wikipedia.

Miller twist rule

The rule of thumb that Greenhill devised based upon his formula is actually what is seen in most places, including Wikipedia.

So our rifling should be roughly 12" per turn. The twist, as listed on Wikipedia's .30-06 article is 10" inches per turn as an average of .30-06 caliber rifles; thus 12" inches per turn is fairly accurate.

Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009

The many activities in support of the Year included exhibitions, cultural tours, school projects and, especially at the local level, incentives for the creation of a wide variety of Wikipedia articles on local history and culture.

Parliamentary Services Act

One MP from the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition exasperatedly decried the amount of red tape required for MPs to hire research assistants, and another stated he was forced to use online websites such as Wikipedia for his research.

Paulo Roberto do Carmo

on November 4 and November 11, his career information on Wikipedia and Brazilian Football Confederation Website was shown by Adel Ferdosipour at Navad.

Retreat to Move Forward

He tells her to do her research on Joplin on Wikipedia, then quickly edits the page contents with nonsense when Jenna goes off to read it.

Sinenjongo High School

In 2012, the 11A grade class at the school lobbied South African cellphone network operators to provide free access to Wikipedia to assist students with research.

State Library and Archives of Florida

Many photos from the FSA Florida Memory Project photographic collection are used frequently for articles on Wikipedia and assist users in describing events in Florida history.

The C'mons

This features a pop-up subsection called "C'mon!pedia", a mock Wikipedia-style article on the band, which fleshes out some details concerning the characters; specifically, it states that the C'mons are an "alternative rock formation out of Barcelona, Spain".

The Head and the Hair

They run into a problem when Tracy cannot remember much about his own life, and turn to Wikipedia for the answers.

The Ten-Per-Cent Solution

At the Channel 6 studios, during a board meeting, Krusty is fired because "Today's children are uncomfortable with a clown whose every reference they have to look up on Wikipedia," and because Itchy and Scratchy are shown to be more popular with the children.

Unorganisation

Wikipedia itself could be seen as a deliberately unorganised entity.

Waray-Waray Wikipedia

This number was more than twice the total for the Tagalog Wikipedia, which is based on the principal language of the Philippines.

We Are Smarter Than Me

Jimmy Wales — founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects.

Wikipedia for World Heritage

Wikipedia for World Heritage refers to the efforts put forth to get Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wikiracing

Wikiracing is a game using the online encyclopedia Wikipedia which focuses on traversing links from one page to another.

Zorn's Law

Zorn's law is a maxim coined by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as a Wikipedia prank.


6-digit UNESCO nomenclature

The article covering the full 6-digit nomenclature is incomplete in this English-language edition of Wikipedia but may be found in the Spanish-language edition at :es:Clasificación Unesco 6 dígitos.

Advanced Access Content System

Some sites that rely on user-submitted content, like Digg and Wikipedia, tried to remove any mentions of the key.

Aragonese Wikipedia

After its foundation on 21 July 2004, the Aragonese Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles on 30 December 2005 after the creation of an article about Panama City and its community produced a special logo to commemorate the event.

Bell Pottinger Private

On 8 December 2011, the UK national newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported that some Wikipedia user accounts allegedly linked to Bell Pottinger had been suspended.

Bill Connelly

William Connolley (born 1964), software engineer, climatology blogger and Wikipedia editor

Château de Rambures

Based on the original article in the French Wikipedia (:fr:Château de Rambures).

China's Wikipedia

Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China, the People's Republic of China's policy of preventing access to Wikipedia from within the country

Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia

Revelations from software produced by Virgil Griffith in 2007 called WikiScanner made public the nature of edits on Wikipedia which were able to be traced directly back to Church of Scientology-controlled computers.

Clan McCorquodale

McCorquodale, a disambiguation page listing occurrences of McCorquodale in Wikipedia

Draft Communications Data Bill

At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the bill "will force many relatively small companies to hang on to data that they would not otherwise retain, which puts the data at risk".

Edward C. Papenfuse

His current editorial interest with regard to Wikipedia centers on overseeing his students contributions to Wikipedia, George Washington's bow to civil authority in 1783, Maryland place names (such as Accident, Maryland), Maryland related themes such as the articles on Civil War era including Cipriano Ferrandini, and major national law cases that had their origins in Maryland such as Barron v. Baltimore.

Essjay controversy

Steve Maich (journalist, Maclean's) stated that the controversy could damage Wikipedia's future as a media business operation, observing that Wikipedia's model was supposedly built upon trust and credibility.

French Wikipedia

According to a 2013 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford study, Ségolène Royal (FR) and unidentified flying object (objet volant non identifié) were the most controversial articles on the French Wikipedia.

Glas Isar

This entry includes information from the German Wikipedia Glas Isar article.

Good Faith Collaboration

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School), published by MIT Press.

Greg Hunt

In October 2013, while being interviewed by the BBC, Hunt referred to research that he had conducted using Wikipedia to contradict Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in regards to the relationship between climate change and bushfires.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

Auroras Anlaß, Erich Hackl, Zürich 1987 (described in the German Wikipedia article Auroras Anlaß).

Homoglyph

Commonly, this is implemented by prohibiting names which mix character sets from multiple languages (toys-Я-us.org would be invalid, but wíkipedia.org and wikipedia.org still exist as different websites); Canada's .ca registry goes one step further by requiring names which differ only in diacritics have the same owner and same registrar.

Jean Jacques Surian

Recently it was noticed while exposing in 2004 a series of painting in Aix-en-Provence on the Divine Comedy of Dante (see some examples on fr:Wikipedia) and took part in 2006 in "the Cézanne year" with an exposure to the museum of the tapestries of Aix-en-Provence, where it reinterpreted the work of the Master of Aix, with much of affection, freedom and creative intelligence.

Karl Ritter

Nothing is known of Ritter's life after his release, except, according to Wikipedia, attendance at the home of Winifred Wagner along with Edda Göring, Adolf von Thadden, Hans Severus Ziegler and others.

Litigation involving the Wikimedia Foundation

In addition to the above mentioned article, two other articles came under the purview of Wikipedia's office actions, because of the DMCA, Damon Dash and Conventional PCI.

Maurice Lacroix

In recent years, Maurice Lacroix has collaborated with Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, musician Bob Geldof and British golfer Justin Rose on a brand endorsement campaign.

MediaDefender

The e-mails also revealed direction by MediaDefender founder Randy Saaf to have developer Ben Ebert attempt to eliminate the information about MiiVi from MediaDefender's Wikipedia entry.

Newton, Derbyshire

For other Wikipedia articles using the word Newton, please see Newton.

Paparazzi Project

Paparazzi collaborators share ideas and information using the same MediaWiki software that is used by Wikipedia.

Primitive Race

-- DO NOT CHANGE! Members are listed in order of joining the band, as per Wikipedia guidelines. -->Chris Kniker - Founder
Luc Van Acker
Raymond Watts
Dave Ogilvie
Mark Gemini Thwaite
Erie Loch
Graham Crabb
Burton C. Bell
Kourtney Klein

Pseudonymity

Pseudonymity is an important component of the reputation systems found in online auction services (such as eBay), discussion sites (such as Slashdot), and collaborative knowledge development sites (such as Wikipedia).

Rohan Nichol

He also shared screen with Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma in Episode III) in several episodes of the TV series All Saints.

Scharnebeck twin ship lift

Schiffshebewerk Scharnebeck, article on the German-language WikiPedia from which this article had been translated

Still Walking

The content of this article was translated from :he:עוד אני הולך (ספר) (Still Walking) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, acknowledged here under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The Scientist

Labs using YouTube, Wikipedia, JoVE, and other tools to best collaborate, communicate, and research were nominated by readers around the world.

Vertrue

Vertrue has sued the Wikimedia Foundation in 2008 in Connecticut over the contents of the article on the company in Wikipedia.

Vietnamese Wikipedia

As with other language editions of Wikipedia, the project's content is both created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.

VPRO Backlight

In this episode the pros and cons of Wikipedia as well as other Web 2.0 websites were discussed by Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, Andrew Keen (writer), Charles Leadbeater (writer) and Robert McHenry (former editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica).

Wiki journalism

Where Wikinews – and indeed Wikipedia - has been most successful, however, is in covering large news events involving large numbers of people, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech Shootings, where first hand experience, or the availability of first hand accounts, forms a larger part of the entry, and where the wealth of reportage makes a central ‘clearing house’ valuable.

Zena El Khalil

Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.