Wikipidia Citation Impact

Thu, 28 May 2026 10:00:58 +0800

Imagine you’re an information anarchist. You undermine Wikipedia pages by nuking references.

A genie has granted you a wish: you can nuke one entire domain. Just one.

As a data-driven decision maker (who is also an information anarchist 🤷), which would you pick?

A common choice is The Internet Archive. 2.9 million Wikipedia pages reference it.

But, you’re sneakier than that. A page isn’t undermined just because some references are gone. It’s undermined when all the references are gone.

In that case, the most devastating domain to nuke is Statistics Poland. Over 45,000 Wikipedia pages cite only Statistics Poland as their reference.

Or, if you’re particularly fond of the Polish, destroy sports-reference.com. Over 37,000 pages cite it as their only reference.

If you prefer hurting scientists, go for biolib.cz - an online encyclopedia of plants, animals, and very importantly, fungi. (But then, you don’t need to nuke it - the “server is experiencing high traffic” quite often.) In any case, this is where you’ll find most satisfaction, as more sites depend solely on biodiversity and natural history archives like marinespecies.org (WoRMS), Natural History Museum, IUCN Redlist than any other category.

For detailed research on which site you’d like to nuke, see What If a Website Just Died?

My page on the Internet Archive

Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The Internet Archive has archived my page as of Aug 2001. The site hasn’t changed much since then.

Blogger

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Since I was updating this site from home as well as office, I completely muddled up versions. I think I’ve lost a few days’ work – at least in the archives. Something like Blogger does help.

web-archiving on S Anand

Wikipidia Citation Impact

My page on the Internet Archive

Blogger