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Category Archives: Nice Charts
New editors are joining English Wikipedia in droves?
After deliberation I decided to publish this story as one article despite its length, for clarity sake. *Dec 7th: I changed the exclamation mark into a question mark. See also remark at end of this blog on how to interpret … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Nice Charts, Observations, Wikimedia Edit(or)s
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Wikipedia’s Growth Animated
For Wikimania 2009 I updated this animation, which I had first published in March 2008. Thanks to Hans Rosling for inspiration. I chose to use newest technology for implementation (html 5, canvas object, javascript only). Hence the animation runs only … Continue reading
Michael Jackson
On June 25, only moments after rumours of the death of Michael Jackson had begun to spread, Wikipedia began to feel the impact of a shock wave of curiosity. According to Wikinews hoaxes started to spread, internet sites suffered from … Continue reading
H1N1 Flu or New Flu or …
Click images for original size. Articles: EN: English / ES:Spanish / DE: German / PL: Polish /JA: Japanese / FR: French / PT : Portuguese / IT : Italian / NL : Dutch / RU : Russian Raw … Continue reading
Posted in Nice Charts, Observations, Wikimedia View(er)s, Wikistats Reports
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US presidential election 2008
Yesterday was the culmination of months of excitement and anticipation. I always follow the US presidential elections with more fervour than Dutch elections. Apart from the obvious relevance of the former for world politics they have a high entertainment value. … Continue reading
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