Wikipedia Announces Their 10 Longest Featured Articles (wikimedia.org) 38
The Wikimedia blog shared a list of their ten longest "featured" articles, highlighting their collection of more than 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer." The ed17 writes: Elvis Presley leads the list, coming in at 17,659 words. In today's strangest juxtaposition, 'History of Poland (1945 - 89)' features just behind. A pope, Michael Jackson, and the Maya civilization also land spots.
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
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> and it is black and covered in your shit. I am sure you will suck it off.
[citation needed]
History of Poland is simply amazing! (Score:1)
I stumbled across the History of Poland (actually, the early history, to begin with) after investigating the supposed nationality of Captain Nemo. The Jules Verne article (or was it the '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' article?) mentioned that he originally intended that Nemo was Polish nobility, upset that his nation had been wiped off the map and remained so for almost a hundred years. His editor insisted that he change it because it reflected poorly on Russia, who France was trying to maintain a peace trea
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Pity your knowledge of plumbing and driving didn't.
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Pity your knowledge of plumbing and driving didn't.
And yet, they never solved the problem of periodic maintenance of illumination fixtures without excessive staffing requirements.
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I stumbled across the History of Poland (actually, the early history, to begin with) after investigating the supposed nationality of Captain Nemo. The Jules Verne article (or was it the '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' article?) mentioned that he originally intended that Nemo was Polish nobility, upset that his nation had been wiped off the map and remained so for almost a hundred years. His editor insisted that he change it because it reflected poorly on Russia, who France was trying to maintain a peace treaty (and where he hoped to sell translation of the book). "What remained in the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kociuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: "Finis Poloniae!" ("The end of Poland!")." I started researching the January Uprising and then earlier uprisings and then back to the founding of Poland. The whole story is simply amazing. They invented public education (for the middle and upper classes) before anyone else had, and just the idea that the national government operated out of the Hotel Lambert in Paris for many decades. Every few decades the story takes another amazing turn. I was fascinated!!
You want to talk about being way ahead of the rest of the world in political system, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].
Re:Change of opinion (Score:4, Insightful)
If I want information on a free software project, Wikipedia is almost always a better source of information than the project's official website. Wikipedia will give an overview of the project, a short history, and list some applications. The project's home page will have the changelog, recent project news, and press releases, none of which is useful to a potential new user. Most software project websites are even worse than university websites [xkcd.com].
Elvis? Seriously? (Score:2)
Glad to know Elvis Presley is more popular then the Poland and the entire Maya civilization.
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Maybe we should jazz up the titles of the other ones to get more people to read them. May I recommend "Harry Potter and the History of Poland (1945-89)"?
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Size doesn't necessarily reflect popularity, or importance for that matter. How much documentation still exists for the Maya Civilization for instance? Their writing system was only recently deciphered, and tomb raiders have destroyed or disturbed a lot of archeological material.
Elvis Presley is well documented and a lot of people liked Elvis Presley and may have wanted to contribute. (I haven't read the article, maybe it was only one person who wrote it all out. Ditto for Poland.)
The Polish wikipedia m
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You're saying size doesn't matter?
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towards the end there, he was also physically bigger than Poland and the entire Maya civilization!
mod up mod up mod up mod up
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Hi, on wikis this button is called 'edit'.
Sites with 'was this useful' buttons are full of shit and cannot be edited by anonymous cowards.
Why does it matter what matters?
They just presented a list with the longest articles, nothing else.
Wikipedia and lists are like America and food.
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Even as AC!
Well, with the risk of continuing the trend, it's not size what always matters most (I see a commenter there talks likewise about length).
Sometimes articles bring essential facts -- e.g. a graph depicting the various resolutions according to their aspects, or a comparison of office suites so that we can judge them based on some personal need (again, *sigh*, it was size: I needed to find a lighter alternative to Libreoffice).
Also, all these articles seem to be in the English Wikipedia. While arguably having most of the longer topics, it is possible that a non-English article in another language's Wikipedia hold the "record" by being the longest (again, not a virtue by itself).
Perhaps a better metric would be a like button or "was this useful? yes / no" toggle at the margin of the article...
but how would you compare the length of an article in English to that of one in Chinese, for instance?
Other top tens... (Score:3)
I'm also pleased to announce that, in addition to there being 10 longest featured articles, there are also 10 shortest featured articles. There are 10 longest non-featured articles and 10 shortest non-featured articles too. There are 10 articles with the most pictures, and I would dare say there are at least 10 articles without any pictures at all! There are 10 articles containing the longest average word length, and 10 articles containing the shortest average word length. And, if you find all that fascinating, there are also 10 articles with the most edits, and 10 articles with the least edits.
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I'm also pleased to announce that, in addition to there being 10 longest featured articles, there are also 10 shortest featured articles. There are 10 longest non-featured articles and 10 shortest non-featured articles too. There are 10 articles with the most pictures, and I would dare say there are at least 10 articles without any pictures at all! There are 10 articles containing the longest average word length, and 10 articles containing the shortest average word length. And, if you find all that fascinating, there are also 10 articles with the most edits, and 10 articles with the least edits.
I'm most interested in the shortest of the longest five of the shortest ten articles.
"rigorously reviewed" ?! (Score:4, Interesting)
" 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer."
this includes english article on 'british empire', a poster child for bias among entrenched editors at wikimedia
attempts to include the factual cited details about british empire's mass murders and genocides, ethnic cleansings(well in to 1970s), regime sanctioned slavery and bonded labor, preventable famines that killed millions(in to 1940s), large scale land and resource grabs, destruction and looting of cultural treasures, regular revolts and protests against regime ( both violent and non violent) in almost every colony, and their brutal suppressions, are censored(except for a unavoidable line or two). people who attempt to include any of that are regularly banned from wikipedia .
ironically some, not all, of the censored material in this article is accepted and available in wikipedia's specialized articles on the subjects like slavery, famines, war crimes, etc. however even parts of sentences with links to specialized articles are censored. contrast this treatment to inclusion of such details in main wikipedia articles about equally horrible actions by similarly brutish regimes like on ussr, communist china, nazi germany, etc. .
even discussion page for british empire article is censored to prevent discussion of sources.
careful examination of history pages, of both the article and discussion page, in date sequence changes will confirm this.
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Well said ! That is precisely why Wikipedia is shit. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. This delusion of censorship just makes them look like a tool. The only sensible approach is to boycott Wikipedia over its retarded policies(*).
A fantastic movie is the 1970 iconic Soldier Blue [imdb.com] (starring a young Candice Bergen before she was the famous Murphy Brown). It is available on Amazon Prime (but not Netflix.) The trailer [youtube.com] does a great job of showing the brutality that both sides engaged in.
It defini
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Seriously, WTF were the Indians supposed to do?
Engage in "Bigger Army Diplomacy"...
The idea that somehow we all will hold hands and sing peace and love is a delusion by people who don't know how things really work.
The Indians lost and white-man won because we had a better version of BAD (yes, the irony of that acronym does not escape me).
If anyone in the world wishes to be free from outside influence, they need their own BAD.
North Korea's leader may be nuts, or he might be saner than our media gives him credit for. He can be sane and still evil of course. :)
But then, him being evil doesn't automatically make us good, just less evil.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
further reading, if you wish to understand how it really works...
I guess they say History is written by the Winner(s). It is sad that people have no respect that they feel they must censor the truth of mass genocide the British Empire engaged in.
It is "mass genocide" when the "other guys" do it, not when you do it.
No one is the villain of their own story. :)
Re:"rigorously reviewed" ?! (Score:4, Insightful)
attempts to include the factual cited details about british empire's mass murders and genocides, ethnic cleansings(well in to 1970s), regime sanctioned slavery and bonded labor, preventable famines that killed millions(in to 1940s), large scale land and resource grabs, destruction and looting of cultural treasures, regular revolts and protests against regime ( both violent and non violent) in almost every colony, and their brutal suppressions, are censored(except for a unavoidable line or two). people who attempt to include any of that are regularly banned from wikipedia .
What part of "history is written by the victors" is so hard to understand?
The United States has killed millions of people in its existence, and continues to do so to this day. This isn't even history, it is current events.
https://youtu.be/K4NRJoCNHIs [youtu.be]
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obviously my comment, based on verifiable facts and reason, touched a nerve of somebody enough for him/her to go researching about me, distort my views, and on that write a lengthy AC ad hominem attack on me.
my comment on specific subject is not countered with rational arguments and relevant facts, but an attack on me personally, on off topic subjects.
yay! i must be doing something right to get so much wasted effort from someone very confused and irrational.
anyway, anyone objecting to my views on other sub
Next year (Score:2)
Half the featured articles will have been deleted.