Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: wikipedia

22 bookmarks tagged “wikipedia

Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads

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A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways. But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue.

Alan MacMasters: How the great online toaster hoax was exposed

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How a 15-year-old schoolboy exposed a much-repeated "fact" as a Wikipedia hoax.

She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-writing-fake-russian-history.-wikipedia-just-noticed.-
A Chinese woman created over 200 fictional articles on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words of imagined history that went unnoticed for more than 10 years.

Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet | WIRED

wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

Psychologie ergonomique - Wikiwand

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La psychologie ergonomique est une branche de la psychologie dont les résultats, connaissances, méthodes et outils sont en lien avec l'ergonomie. Elle est psychologique en tant qu'elle centre ses analyses sur les comportements tels qu'ils s'expriment au niveau individuel. Elle est ergonomique dans la mesure où ses travaux portent sur les situations de travail, celles-ci devant être prises au sens large pour inclure toute activité orientée impliquant des objets techniques.