Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2007

This weekened I was mostly without an Internet connection, and the question of the details of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case came up.

So I looked up Dred Scott in Encyclopædia Britannica, except it wasn't under 'Dred' or under 'Scott'.

Wikipedia, however, has it. Lots on it. And if you misspell it as 'Dread Scott' or 'Dred Scot', you get instantly redirected, and it's much faster than Britannica, especially since--did I mention this?--it's not even in Britannica.

If fools read this blog, they'd probably be thinking right now, 'Ah, but you didn't have access to Wikipedia because it's only online, whereas Britannica can be used anywhere!' But it's a lot easier to carry around a laptop with either the en cur articles only (~2.8GB compressed) or one of those cute 'use the mobile phone network' cards. Britannica was where I was, but if I had wanted this information elsewhere I'd be out of luck. Britannica is heavy. And bulky. Can't tote it around with me where ever I go.

(The online Britannica does have it, but the hard copy didn't, and the online version isn't free anyway.)

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

(Potentially relevant link)

(Note: Edits prior to 2001-08-05 are not counted.)
1 each: April 2006, August 2005, December 2005, January 2006, May 2002, October 2001, September 2001, September 2004
2 each: April 2002, August 2004, February 2002, July 2004, March 2002, November 2002, November 2006
3 each: April 2004, June 2002, September 2005
4 each: February 2004, February 2006, July 2005
5: March 2006
6: January 2002
7 each: May 2004, May 2006, November 2001, October 2003
9: June 2006
10 each: August 2006, January 2004, July 2003, July 2006, June 2005, March 2004, October 2006
14: August 2001
20: March 2003
21: April 2003
27; December 2003
33: June 2003
39: August 2003
42: February 2003
45: September 2003
49: October 2002
66: September 2006
71: January 2003
85: December 2002
88: May 2003
100: January 2007
104: November 2003
Total: 965

Over 10% were this month. Wikid. I think I'll go make a few more edits, just to break my monthly record.

Also:
Oldest edits that are the most recent for said article:
* 17:42, 22 December 2002 (hist) (diff) Talk:Khazad-dum (Khazad-dum = Moria (Middle-earth)) (top)
* 01:41, 23 January 2003 (hist) (diff) Talk:Death Metal (Redundant article) (top)
* 17:35, 25 January 2003 (hist) (diff) Defining dictionary (Fixed redirect.) (top)
* 23:24, 25 January 2003 (hist) (diff) Ibn Sina (Fixed redirect) (top)
* 00:12, 26 January 2003 (hist) (diff) Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (Redirect) (top)
* 02:50, 26 January 2003 (hist) (diff) m Demo scene (Fixing redirect.) (top)
* 02:53, 26 January 2003 (hist) (diff) m J.Paul Getty (Fixing redirect.) (top)
* 23:46, 5 March 2003 (hist) (diff) William Taft (REDIRECT) (top)
* 18:29, 13 June 2003 (hist) (diff) Absolute Visual Magnitude (fixing redirect) (top)
* 16:19, 29 April 2004 (hist) (diff) Francis Iles (redir) (top)
* 21:03, 20 July 2006 (hist) (diff) Thomas West, 1st Baron West (Category:1335 births => Category:1365 births) (top)
Of course, Talk and Redirs aren't that relevant, so 2006. Not bad at all.