An Open Ranking of Wikipedia Pages 39
vigna writes: The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics of the Università degli studi di Milano did it again: after creating the first open ranking of the World Wide Web they have put together the first entirely open ranking of Wikipedia, using Wikidata to categorize pages. The ranking is based on classic and easily explainable centrality measures or page views, and it is entirely open — all data (Wikipedia and Wikidata dumps) and all software used is publicly available. Just in case you wonder, the most important food is chocolate, the most important band are the Beatles and the most important idea is atheism.
John was right (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:John was right (Score:5, Informative)
No they aren't. Among men only, only Obama, Napoleon, G.W. Bush, FDR, Reagan, Shakespeare, Hitler, Washington, Churchill, Lincoln, Aristotle, Columbus, Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, and Einstein are more popular than Jesus. Bob Dylan (21) would be the most popular musician, beating out both Michael Jackson (27) and Elvis (29). None of the Beatles are individually in the top 100 for men.
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you seem to confuse the members of the band for the band itself.
nobody gives a shit about what ringo does nowadays, but they'll look up what the beatles did.
Starlight Glimmer 2016 (Score:1)
Vote Starlight Glimmer for President in 2016. As the social justice candidate, Starlight invites all of America to experience true friendship for the first time. Starlight believes in an America where nobody flaunts their special talents because they have no special talents to flaunt. Free yourself and choose equality as your special talent.
hmmm... (Score:1)
the most important idea is atheism
And just in case you wonder, the seventh most important idea is (or is it?)... Ice Bucket Challenge!
Well, maybe it's not importance that we deal with...
Re: hmmm... (Score:5, Interesting)
I learned a new word...
an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life.
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an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of gods as neither meaningful nor relevant to their life.
Although this neologism is suspect on etymological grounds, one could only hope that this word will become more popular and overtake the various misuses or imprecise uses of "agnosticism" for example.
For the record, "agnostic" (literally "lacking knowledge") in the traditional sense doesn't mean "I don't know" nor "I don't care," but rather is a positive philosophical belief that it is impossible to know for certain whether god(s) exist, e.g., because of the impossibility of collecting appropriate evidenc
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"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by
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Apatheism was the position of the Buddha regarding God:
The Buddha said: "I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines of the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and whatever truth there is."
http://www.quora.com/What-is-t... [quora.com]
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As a Christian i don't consider anyone as "a-theist" because "Theos" exist with/in everyone - but even as just a Greek, and even accepting the neologism "the-ist", "a-theist" still has a problematic meaning of, not just "not believing" but "without God" (that's what happens when "-religious- atheist" define themselves... they need God even for that!).
Correct me if I'm wrong (I don't speak Greek), but doesn't "atheist" mean without gods generally, rather than just without Yahweh specifically? You wouldn't say pre-Christian Greeks who believed in the Greek pantheon were atheist?
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You refer to "agnosticism" (as per the Wikipedia article), a very specific philosophical school that derives from, but is not the same as the word "agnostic".
gnostic: I know for a fact
agnostic: I don't know
Example: I am gnostic about my own weight because I just stepped on a scale, but I'm agnostic about the weight of my neighbour, unless he tells me.
As for beliefs...
theist: I believe gods exist (specifically: my god) -- active belief
atheist: I don't believe gods exist -- lack of a belief
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Weird. (Score:2)
Some curious results:
"occupation:omnivore". Apparently Bob Dillan is the best omnivore out there.
"gender:animal": Obama is #1.
"citizenship:cops": Alfred Deacon, the second prime minister of Australia
"genre:set" William Shakespeare, of course.
Yet TV shows ... (Score:2)
... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians then the spiritually minded Oprah ...
NSFW reference [papermag.com]
Re:Yet TV shows ... (Score:4, Funny)
... that more people care about the unreality show crap such as Kartrashians[sic] then the spiritually minded Oprah ...
NSFW reference [papermag.com]
I remember back when I had no clue who she was. I thought people had started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 because I kept hearing them talk about the Cardassians [memory-alpha.org]. Sadly I had misheard. I do have to say I would watch a show about the Cardassians, especially if it featured Garak [memory-alpha.org] he was the best of the characters to come out of that show.
The word important is being used in a flawed sense (Score:2)
Do page views really reflect importance? I'd conclude that that proposition is bollocks.
Classic case in point. No music video even comes close to Psy's "Gangnam Style" in views. But seriously, is it the most important music video? Hint, the answer is not even close.
I'd even hazard that water is (just probably, slightly) more important than Chocolate, but it wouldn't even register on this measure.
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