User:MonsieurD

“The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.” ― Umberto Eco, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

I'm from Montreal, Québec, Canada. My interests are philosophy, politics, ecology and animal rights.


 * Wikiscan

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Interesting articles featuring Wikipedia
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/01/wikipedia-invertebrate-page-edited-to-include-paul-ryan.html
 * About a high-profile vandalism on Wikipedia:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134
 * How Reddit bested Wikipedia

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
 * Ideological bias on Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEjeCr6YneU
 * Video on Wikipedia's structure

Reliable and deprecated sources

 * Perennial sources
 * Deprecated sources
 * Article about Wikipedia bias
 * Script to detect unreliable sources
 * Reliable sources noticeboard

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