"this raises a number of questions: Q: though i wouldn't be surprised if it's true for most articles it can't be true for all articles. can it? Q: what's the distribution of distances (measured in "number of clicks away") from 'Philosophy'?
Q: by this same measure what's the furthest article from 'Philosophy'? Q: are there any other articles that are more common than 'Philosophy'? Q: what are the common paths to 'Philosophy'?"

"The work of German filmmakers peddling a satirical movie called Short Cut to Hollywood, the elaborate hoax involved at least two faked websites, a faked Wikipedia entry and California phone numbers for “public safety” officials that were actually being answered by hoaxsters in Germany using Skype."

"Times executives believed that publicity would raise Mr. Rohde’s value to his captors as a bargaining chip and reduce his chance of survival. Persuading another publication or a broadcaster not to report the kidnapping usually meant just a phone call from one editor to another, said Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times. But Wikipedia, which operates under the philosophy that anyone can be an editor, and that all information should be public, is a vastly different world. "

"According to William Manchester, 'Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity.' He also refers to use of sex toys."

"An apparently scientific argument is said to be not even wrong if it is based on assumptions that are known to be incorrect, or alternately theories which cannot possibly be falsified or used to predict anything. The phrase was coined by the early quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or sloppy thinking. Peierls (1960) writes of Pauli, "... a friend showed him the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli's views. Pauli remarked sadly, 'That's not right. It's not even wrong' ". In science and philosophy, it is known as the principle of falsifiability."

Mike Godwin (General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation) provides an interesting afterword on the recent Internet Watch Foundation's blocking of a Wikipedia article.

"In reality, the number of words depends on the definitions of Eskimo and snow, and on the method of counting numbers of words in languages that have quite different grammatical structures from English."

"Wikileaks [wikileaks.org] is reporting that the Wikimedia Foundation [wikimedia.org] is suppressing a news item on Wikinews [wikinews.org] about Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]. ... all of the above sites are managed using the MediaWiki [mediawiki.org] softwar

"the socio-semantic web opens up for a more social interface to the semantics of businesses, allowing interoperability between business objects, actions and their users."

"DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data."

"The Relationship Finder allows to explore the DBpedia dataset to find relationships between two things." - Degrees of seperation stylee.

Wikipedia categories browser by the Freebase team.

"The most surprising result is that the activity of the Wikipedia community appears to have been declining during the last 6 months"

"There are several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world and rank countries as being free, partly free, or unfree using various measures of freedom, including political rights, economic r

"Using words like "I think" and "in my opinion" water down the effect of your argument. You must state, unequivocally, that your position is the only reasonable one."

"The color names for these different types of sounds are derived from a loose analogy between the spectrum of frequencies of sound wave present in the sound ... and the equivalent spectrum of light wave frequencies."

"International Drinking Rules may be used during any drinking game, or social gathering whose participants are aware of the rules. ... The rules are intentionally complex, and may be made more complex at will, such being the delightful benefit of arbitrar

"A typical dystopian film is one which is set, usually in the future, in a society where the government is corrupt or ineffectual, but by no means all such films are dystopias. The world within the film often has nightmare-like qualities, though it also u

"Jelliffe ... never explains why Microsoft never took the opportunity to contribute to ODF to resolve such issues. So, while claiming to counteract FUD, he engages in it in his announcement."

"Seriously, it's two thousand goddamn seven, the "What is this X the article speaks of?" thing is OVER. You're on the fucking Internet, go to Google or Wikipedia and do five seconds of research.

New template banners for Wikipedia.

"GUYS IT WOULD BE NEAT IF YOU VANDALIZED THE CHICKEN ARTICLE TODAY OKAY" - Fictional Jimbo Wales??

A visualization of Wikipedia article page histories.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation is to contribute content to Wikipedia