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slightly new.
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slightly new. is a personal blog at slightlynew.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Who writes Wikipedia? Analyzing Compressed Revision Diffs”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its analysis of who writes Wikipedia, including a parallel between bots in the Wikipedia ecosystem and bacteria in the human body.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Who writes Wikipedia? Analyzing Compressed Revision Diffs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-27
What Hacker News says?
A guy I knew at the Media Lab said that Marvin Minsky tried to correct his Wikipedia article, but someone reverted it. The IP address came from inside the Media Lab, so it might have very well been him. The small-community-far-from-everything is quite similar to Wikipedia in its early years. Look at 2002-2005 and you'll see lots of anonymous Good Samaritans contributing helpful content. (Look for R6 and R7 on http:/…
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on “Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots”Submitted Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThe source is linked from the OP. Here it is: http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia... The author draws a wonderful parallel between bots in the Wikipedia ecosystem and bacteria in the human body.
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on “Half of the top 50 Wikipedia contributors are bots”Submitted Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI did a study of Wikipedia, and 75% of contributions from registered users came from someone who got a contribution reverted at least once. http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/vandalism-second-cha...
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on “The Toughest Companies for Job Interviews ”Submitted A Full Web Service with HTTP caching in 7 lines as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who writes Wikipedia? Analyzing Compressed Revision Diffs as a story · 4 points
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