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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. ...

What is the most frequently occurring sentence in Wikipedia? ANS: A 213-word paragraph about how minor planets are named, which appears in 418 Wikipedia articles, word-for-word! There are ~380,000 asteroids. Wikipedia has 418 pages for these - including one for each thousand-range of asteroids. Every single one of these pages includes the phrase: As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU’s Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU’s naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. ...

When I realized Aishwarya Rai begins and ends with AI, I had to find out if there were more like her. It took a coding agent (Claude Code in this case) 10 minutes to find the 10 celebrities who share that distinction, at least across the 24,086 names on Wikipedia: Ai Nagai - Japanese playwright Aiguo Dai - Chinese-American atmospheric scientist Ai (poet) - American poet Aisea Nawai - Fijian rugby player Ai (singer) - Japanese-American singer Aisha Chughtai - Pakistani actress Aiyappan Pillai - Indian social reformer Aizawa Seishisai - Japanese Confucian scholar Ainmuire mac Sétnai - Irish high king Aisha Yousef al-Mannai - Qatari artist Glory be to these AI bookends! ...

The Long Tail of information sharing. Even on Wikipedia, fewer than 2% have contributed over 100 articles. Over 85% have contributed fewer than 5 articles. A Wiki inside an organisation is unlikely to reach critical mass, left to itself. Comments Arun 28 Apr 2006 6:10 am: But I imagine, many in the 85% probably contributed stuff that the prolific guys never thought of. For instance, I know one guy who put up something on Ananth Pai (Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha), and i doubt he probably ever added anything else. But you are right about wiki in an organization. Do you know an organization where a wiki has been used effectively? S Anand 28 Apr 2006 10:22 pm: No, not offhand. We were planning to recommend it at one of our clients’, but I’m not going to do that any more. sathish 30 Apr 2006 2:39 am: if the organization strength is large - runs into many thousands or lakhs - I think the required critical mass might be acheived.. for smaller companies and small teams too, it might make sense - since, every one is liable to participate - especially product documentation - it would be easier make/correct and change. Arun 30 Apr 2006 6:02 am: Ah, ok. S Anand 30 Apr 2006 8:45 am: A colleague just reported that his current client is successfully using a Wiki. So may it’s not impossible after all… Madhu 2 May 2006 12:24 pm: wiki is all about scale i think. The sergery brin special lecture at UCB is a case in point. You can access this at google videos

Uncyclopedia. As Arnab points out, this is much tougher than Wikipedia. Comments Jetru 30 Mar 2005 6:38 am: what the heck is this? TOUGHER???! S Anand 30 Mar 2005 6:41 am: Yeah. The lies have to be consistent with all previous lies. Jetru 30 Mar 2005 1:21 pm: oh.lol

Google donates infrastructure to Wikipedia. Possible benefits to Google? Test another end use for the famed Google OS Get an “authoritative” knowledge base to provide search results on Position against Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopaedia

OpenCola has an open source cola recipe. You also have OpenLaw and Wikipedia.