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#122#37 Figging
Blimey.
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#123Interesting that the 31st and 34th entries "gingering" and "figging" were both linked in a popular reddit thread yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/m7x0zo5XzU
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not completely true. There are two different types of political articles: 1) Those where two opposing edit-warring factions have battled each other into a compromise/stalemate, resulting in a passably neutral article, and 2) Those where a single aligned group of edit-warriors have gained supremacy and have come to gatekeep the article against any opposing perspectives.
It's worse than that. It affects the entire site. Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(automobile_manufact... > "GM, for instance, at one time picked up the entire cost of funding health insurance premiums of its employees, their survivors and GM retirees, as the US did not have a universal health care system ." This is an article about automakers. The reason they picked up future healthcare co…
Removing context to make a selective argument is intellectually dishonest.
The article contrasts the operating environment of “Big Three” auto-manufacturers across countries. It compares manufacture costs in Germany and Japan with those in the US, and the paragraph you cite links through to a (2004) article in which it is estimated that pensions and health insurance combined add $1,784 to the cost of a car in the US.
You need to subtract some contradictory numbers in the article to come to a number you can ascribe to health insurance, but somewhere between $400 and $800 fits a quoted “$900 will flow to [pension] funds”.
Given this context it is reasonable to argue that General Motors is (or at least was in 2004) at a competitive disadvantage to manufacturers in Japan or Germany as a result of the US having no universal healthcare system.
Lamentably for your position, just because there are political decisions involved that bring about consequences, factual discussion of those consequences is not itself necessarily political.
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#125One very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open that intentionally, but I thought I must have accidentally tapped on some links while I was asleep, and ended up there. But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spani…
Funny you mention that. I was also confused by this same experience! I was recently introduced to the theory that most of the internet is bot activity and very little legitimate user activity. I think from a pure ratio perspective that’s very true, and this list made me ask “this is what people want to know about?” I was hoping to see people researching higher level queries, most of this seems like film and tv or fai…
Depends on what you mean by activity.
Bots don’t consume nearly as much bandwidth as people, they generally don’t care about assets like images or videos and the don’t download millions of copies of 100GB games. But they can make a very high volume of requests.
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#126I find it interesting that the top results are recent topics. In most cases, they appear to be folks getting context for news or other timely events, or something else they saw or heard about in the media.
Yes long tail yadda yadda, but it's an interesting reflection of what we want to learn about or reference: actors, singers, recent movies, and every once in a while, something else.
(Edit: fixed ambiguious wording)
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not much different if you are still counting the English Wikipedia.
There are billion of people in China. If you grant only 0.1% of 1.4118 billion can speak and read English, that's 1,411,800 individuals. However, if we take Wikipedia's claim at face value, it's actually ten million.[1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
'can speak and read a second language' doesn't mean they'd cause significant traffic to Wikipedia in that second language, that number would be some small fraction of that again.
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#128One very curious thing I ran into today: this morning I woke up and when I checked my phone, the (Spanish) Wikipedia page for Cleopatra was open on my browser. I didn't myself open that intentionally, but I thought I must have accidentally tapped on some links while I was asleep, and ended up there. But now I see this website and it turns out that "Cleopatra" is consistently one of the most visited pages in the Spani…
Funny you mention that. I was also confused by this same experience! I was recently introduced to the theory that most of the internet is bot activity and very little legitimate user activity. I think from a pure ratio perspective that’s very true, and this list made me ask “this is what people want to know about?” I was hoping to see people researching higher level queries, most of this seems like film and tv or fai…
Makes sense to me that only very popular and generic stuff makes the top of the list. Even if Wikipedia was used more for high level queries in aggregate, there’s so many possible things people could be looking into that it’s necessarily more spread out than whatever is popular this week.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like she (daughter) planned it or at least provided the weapon, but the person who actually did it was her boyfriend and is now serving life without possibility of parole. Kind of a crazy sentence considering the 'victim' truly had it coming (tortured her daughter for years, with unnecessary surgeries, feeding tube, etc)
> unnecessary surgeries I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...
The only example of surgery I saw was Botox for and then removal of the saliva gland, after the mother induced drooling by applying an anaesthetic prior to the doctor's examination.
So yes there's some suspicions not reported or not well followed through on by some doctors and police, but it's clearly not that cut and dry, it was quite a fraud.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Surely 3% of total traffic for something like Wikipedia (hyperpopular) is well worth the investment?
Only if they think that 3% would not otherwise use Wikipedia. But in reality that 3% would just use the web app instead, no? In fact if they put a web link in the app store, would anyone even notice the difference? OT I know, but I really don't get the whole native app thing, particualry for non-profits or charities.
But then you don't understand charities... that money has to be spent. And also builds competence. Maybe 3% now, but with a goal of 10%? Then we are talking millions of people.