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Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On...

Technology Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no...

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Hurricane Sandy's Climate-Change-Denying Wikipedia Scribe Banned From...

Science Ken Mampel, the Floridian man who repeatedly edited the Wikipedia entry on Hurricane Sandy to remove any mention of climate change, has been blocked from Wikipedia for a… Ken Mampel, the...

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Human Penis Size, Illuminati, And The Other Most Popular Wikipedia Pages Of 2012

Technology Some science and tech. More movies and celebs. A barebones site has collected the 100 most popular Wikipedia stories from each major language. The different languages have different pages...

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Wikipedia Is Getting Worse As It Gets Better

Technology A newly published study at the University of Minnesota suggests that Wikipedia is getting worse...as it gets better. Wikipedia's initial strength, it says, was due to the… A newly published...

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Watch People Across The World Edit Wikipedia Articles In Real Time

Technology Here are 10 great, odd edits from the past 10 minutes. At any given moment, somebody is almost certainly editing something on Wikipedia. Will that person have any expertise on the subject?...

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You've Never Heard Of Gaming's Most Famous Photographer

Gadgets Ever notice how the photos of gaming systems on Wikipedia are actually pretty good? This is why. If you're spent more than a few minutes searching for restriction-free photos in the hellmouth...

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This Bot Has Written More Wikipedia Articles Than Anybody

Science It's responsible for 8.5 percent of Wikipedia articles. You might think writing 10,000 articles per day would be impossible. But not for a Swede named Sverker Johansson. He created a computer...

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Wikipedia's 100,000 Most Popular Pages, Rendered As A Galaxy

Technology Click to fly Perhaps you imagine the Internet as a set of tubes, or a web, or series of garden paths. One student in Paris imagined it as a galaxy. He has made a visualization of…

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Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other

Technology And no one even noticed Bots waging war for years on end, silently and endlessly arguing over tiny details on Wikipedia is, let’s be honest, pretty funny. Automatons with vendettas against...

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Artificial intelligence can now help write Wikipedia pages for overlooked...

Technology The tech could be used to increase the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia AI does the research and writes the first draft for you.

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