Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Wikipedia

Fun with Wikipedia Networks

May 25, 2011

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Kyle

in Crowdsourcing, Mathematics, Network Flows, Social Networks, Wikipedia, xkcd

So the mouse-over text of today’s xkcd (“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ‘Philosophy.’”) has inspired a little playful procrastination. I’d love to put together one of those fun xkcd-style info…
Amusing Wikipedia Articles: “Real life”

Mar 24, 2008

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Kyle

in Set Theory, Wikipedia

I love it when Wikipedia editors thoroughly cross-reference their entries. Although such dutifulness can be a problem, it also helps you find pages you’d never have guessed existed. As a case in point, when reading today about magic cookies (I was passed there by reference), I came across the following sentence, complete with what I…