Apart from the more recent Wikipedia dumps we used, some notable improvements are a much better YAGO mapping, providing a more complete (more classes assigned to instances) and accurate (95% accuracy) class hierarchy for DBpedia. The Geo extractor code has been improved and is now run for all 14 languages. URI validation has switched to the PEAR validation class.

So to recap, we have scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a YahooGoogle map.

Le Tigre (French for "The Tiger") is an American dance-punk band, formed by Kathleen Hanna (formerly of Bikini Kill) and Johanna Fateman in 1998. It also featured Sadie Benning from 1998 until 2001, and JD Samson for the rest of the group's run. Le Tigre is known for its socio-political lyrics, dealing with issues of feminism and the LGBT community. The band is currently on hiatus.

Voelker was born in Ishpeming, Michigan and spent most of his life there. He graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1928 and practiced law for a time in Chicago, Illinois before tiring of city life and returning to Ishpeming to enter private practice. Later, he was elected to the office of Marquette County prosecutor. In 1957, he was appointed the 74th justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and was subsequently re-elected to that position. After the success of his novel, Anatomy of a Murder, Voelker retired from the court in 1959 in order to write full-time and to fish at his beloved Frenchman's Pond.

Wikipedia’s incremental-growth model, apart from providing an in-vivo validation of Barabási’s scale-free network-development theory, suggests that the processes we have discovered may continue to shape Wikipedia in the future. Wikipedia growth could be limited by invisible subjective boundaries related to the interests of its contributors. Our growth model suggests how these boundaries might be bridged. Consider that references to nonexistent entries prompt creation of these entries and assume that all human knowledge forms a fully connected network. Through a breadth-first graph traversal or flood-filling process Wikipedia’s coverage will broaden, albeit over an uneven time progression.

We studied the entire Wikipedia corpus, 485 Gbytes of data, adding up to 1.9 million pages and 28.2 million revisions. Using a suite of tools we developed, we showed that the ratio of undefined to defined concepts in Wikipedia has been stable over time. Furthermore, we found that articles are added to Wikipedia in a collaborative fashion: Wikipedians often add a new article when they encounter a missing entry. Finally, we established that Wikipedia grows in a manner similar to that witnessed in a number of different areas, by having new articles linked to the most popular existing articles. This pattern of growth, called preferential attachment, has been used to explain the number of species per genus, the internet, the world-wide-web, scientific citations, collaboration networks between people, and others. It is the first time preferential attachment has been studied live at a structure of this size.

n his obituary, Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger stated that Tilly "literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history".[1] Adam Ashforth, of Northwestern University, described Tilly as

This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomen

This page has been nominated for speedy deletion.

WikipediaVision is a visualization of edits to the English Wikipedia, almost the same time as they happen. The idea came after seeing flickervision and twittervision, both created by David Troy.

wikipedia article on the first national bank building; mostly a stub at this point. needs to sync with the collected information on arborwiki too. to do: add 3d models

Cognitive orthotics are software-based personal reminder systems for people with cognitive impairment, such as memory loss. People who can benefit include the elderly, people who have experienced traumatic brain injury, and anyone who experiences memory l

Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows you're a dog.

An amateur does something out of passion and happiness; a professional does something to put food on the table and deliberately seeks fame and power for pleasure. But pleasure is not necessarily happiness.

Search marketers and reputation management professionals should know that there are legitimate ways to correct errors in Wikipedia. Knowing the right way to fix things is even more important now that Wikipedia results frequently appear in the top listings

"When we started Socialtext, we had to spend a lot of time with each customer explaining what a wiki is and why it had such a funny four letter word."

anticipating "Cult of the Amateur" and "how the internet is killing our culture". your culture maybe

just because it's a wiki doesn't mean that everyone can edit everything. board and governance issues at the non-profit.

he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student from Kentucky who used texts such as Catholicism for Dummies to help him work.

need a link to a2b3 in here

seo spammers clobber wikipedia outbound links - wikipedia puts shields up, sets outbound to "nofollow". executive decision by jimmy wales

i have long thought that wikipedia is the same kind of massively multiplayer online roleplaying game - and certainly delicious can be argued to behave the same way.

The Changing Nature of Intellectual Authority /
Peter Nicholson
President, Council of Canadian Academics

The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

journalist biography smear on wikipedia, not caught or corrected for 6+ months

points to a USA Today Op Ed where someone gets trashed in a Wikipedia bio, and where they don't discover it for months afterwards

Wikipedia generally frowns on self-promotion, but I'll try to make it longer, Brian.

one each of all the hot items on the net. time for a "web 2.0 purity test" to see how you are doing

new "wikicities", kind of like geocities meets wikipedia.

interview with Jimmy Wales in the WSJ

"I would view them as a competitor, except that I think they will be crushed out of existence within 5 years."

So optimistic is co-founder Wales about Wikipedia’s future that he recently predicted that the Encyclopædia Britannica “will be crushed out of existence within five years.”

VB macros to take an ordinary Word document and convert it to Mediawiki markup