Archive for the 'Wikid' Category

Wiki page traffic statistics

Friday, October 10th, 2008

There’s a new a gadget that shows you how many hits each wikipedia page gets built by a very clever developer fella by the name of Domas Mituzas. He says the program ‘access[es] statistics from wikipedia’s squid cluster’ and simply produces a visual representation of this ’squid cluster’, which I suppose must be a vast […]

Late comer

Friday, April 4th, 2008

It turns out my rants against the wiki deletionists were a little old hat. The Ecomomist was writing about “The battle for Wikipedia’s soul” a whole month ago.

The siren delights and dangers of wiki

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

It’s not often you’ll find me with my nose in such a highfalutin journal as the New York Review of Books, but this week was an exception. It was Wikipedia, of course, led me to their ivory door. Earlier in the month they published an article on Wiki written by the American novelist Nicholson Baker […]