Console Drive, which turns a standard 3.5-inch hard drive into
either aremovable internal hard drive cartridge or an external hard
drive thatconnects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 1.1, FireWire, SCSI or a
PCMCIA slot,depending on the model you choose. Internally, the Console
Drive can connectto a Power Mac's Serial ATA slot. In addition, the
Console Drive acceptsAddonics' series of Pocket CD, DVD, CD-RW and
DVD+/-R/RW drives, all ofwhich are Mac compatible.
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original
iMac drive
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original
iMac drive
06/14/2004 02:50 PM
MCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW
drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac
(233, 266, and 333MHz, Rev...
fps:stats
fps:stats
06/16/2004 10:10 AM
Looking for someone to take over this project.
Web Stats up
Web Stats up
03/13/2003 10:14 AM
Mostly out of curiousity about the usage patterns of this site, I've
added a statistics page. You can look at...
Q-Stats
Q-Stats
06/24/2004 12:03 AM
Q-Stats
Valentine's Day Stats
Valentine's Day Stats
02/13/2004 01:27 PM
Have you eaten your 24 pounds of chocolate?
PHP Hockey Stats
PHP Hockey Stats
12/08/2003 02:24 PM
Looking for 2 Developers to Assist
Comment stats
Comment stats
02/05/2005 10:07 PM
Of the 2514 comments I have across all blogs managed by this
install of MT, 1723 contain a
URL, but 92 of those only have a URL in the comment body.
And there are currently 126 comments in my database that contain
both the letters Q and Z.
Game Stats
Game Stats
05/22/2004 06:51 PM
GameStats v1.3.3 released
Stats for Schools
Stats for Schools
04/05/2005 06:34 AM
Stats for Schools
http://www.stats4schools.gov.
uk./
Stats4schools, developed by the United Kingdom's
Office of National Statistics, "is about helping teachers and pupils
to get more from statistics." The project has posted here datasets
collected by the Office for National Statistics as part of the Omnibus
survey and made them available for students to download free of
charge. Teachers will also find lesson plans, worksheets and datasets
that can be used in their classrooms. The lesson ideas are organized
by topics and involve using statistics to answer questions such as,
"Do girls pull their weight more than boys at home?" and "Are you at
risk from the sun?" Additional resources on teaching statistics are
available from the Links section of the website. This has been added
to Statistics
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout
Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout
Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Browser Stats
Browser Stats
12/10/2003 04:22 PM
Where do you go for accurate, up to date numbers for current browser
share? There aren't many centralized resources aggregating this sort
of thing on a wide scale anymore. Thanks to lazy developers who have
written bad detection scripts...
webl0g-stats-0.11
webl0g-stats-0.11
01/17/2004 10:41 PM
ldap-stats.pl 1.1
ldap-stats.pl 1.1
12/31/2004 07:17 PM
A script that provides several utilization reports from a set of LDAP
log files.
Skype Stats
Skype Stats
12/19/2004 03:12 PM
An update on Skype's P2P voice over IP service, courtesy of
Jeff Clavier:
* 13M+ users registered
* 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks
ago
* 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this - i.e almost 2.4
billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has 170,000
customers and passed the billion minutes mark sometime in 2004
* 295,000 users have signed for SkypeOut (Skype has a goal of 5%
conversion from the free service to SkypeOut)
If you haven't tried Skype, you should. The sound quality is
surprisingly good, even though it uses peer-to-peer connections over
the public Internet. They just announced availability of the Skype
API, which will let developers build new applications and
functionality on top of the platform.
I was originally dismissive of Skype, because it was free, private,
and software-only. But I now thing it's a bigger deal than people
realize. It's an example of how VOIP is changing the game in telecom,
not just allowing in new competitors.
2004 Stats
2004 Stats
12/25/2004 04:51 PM
Google's 2
Stats Collector 2.4
Stats Collector 2.4
07/29/2004 06:50 AM
A centralized metric collection system.
Today's fun stats
Today's fun stats
03/14/2005 06:11 PM
Some fun facts from the two keynotes I attended at the Wharton
Technology Conference today: Lou D'Ambrosio of Avaya and Jeff Weiner
of Yahoo!
- In 1998, the average Web search query was 1.2 words long; in 2004
was twice as long (2.5 words). Weiner (who heads up the search
business at Yahoo!) made an insightful connection between this stat
and the Long
Tail phenomenon. Longer queries means more permutations. More
permutations means more unique searches. More unique searches means a
longer tail in the distirbution of queries, which enables business
models (sponsored search and micro-targeted advertising) that focus on
that side of the curve.
- Yahoo!'s Launch service has three billion recommendations about
music from its users. I wonder how many recommendations Amazon.com
has on its site? Must be a biiiiiiig number
- There were 17 million business voice over IP lines deoployed in
2004. In 2005, that is expected to be 24.6 million, which for the
first time will exceed new TDM (traditional telephone) lines deployed.
In other words, this year is the inflection point for VOIP in
business.
Spam Stats
Spam Stats
01/13/2003 03:01 PM
Trailing week: 170 spam messages, 161 were flagged by POPFile, 94.7%.
Month of December: 369 spam messages, 335 flagged, 90.7%....
Metamark stats
Metamark stats
06/25/2004 06:42 PM
Metamark is getting a lot more daily traffic than Snipurl now. Woah.
Still fewer new short urls a day though. I'd really like to get the
code cleaned up a tiny bit more and moved to one of our public
subversion repositories. If you'd like to use the Metamark code for
something, let me know....
Tax Stats 2004
Tax Stats 2004
04/20/2004 08:56 PM
Internet.com Apr 21 2004 0:50AM GMT
mroovca stats
mroovca stats
07/14/2004 08:25 AM
notes to releases
Wolf Stats 1.0
Wolf Stats 1.0
07/13/2004 10:01 PM
A tool to display Enemy Territory stats on a Website.
Stats Quest
Stats Quest
03/11/2003 02:00 PM
On Paul’s recommendation, I checked out Re_Invigorate. I also
found HotStats in my referrers, so I’m running them both on...
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol
03/14/2005 06:10 PM
TikiMac today unveiled the Big Tiki Drive, the world's first hi-speed
USB compatible storage device in the form of a big, grinning Tiki
idol, complete with hypnotic glowing eyes and a blinking "aura", for
Macintosh and Windows PC-compatible computers and starting at $59.
[PRWEB Feb 23, 2005]
Hitachi 500 gig Drive and 10 gig micro
drive
Hitachi 500 gig Drive and 10 gig micro
drive
01/05/2005 10:32 PM
Seems CES does not consider Endgadget a weblog so they have full
access to CES and have lot's of really good CES news. Check out their
review of the new Hard Drives announced by Hitachi. [Endgadget]<
/p>
onis not irc stats 0.4.4 (Unstable)
onis not irc stats 0.4.4 (Unstable)
12/06/2003 02:16 PM
A script to convert IRC-logs into statistics.
Apple Leads Web Stats
Apple Leads Web Stats
12/02/2003 12:40 AM
onis not irc stats 0.4.5 (Unstable)
onis not irc stats 0.4.5 (Unstable)
12/16/2003 02:59 PM
A script to convert IRC-logs into statistics.
Fun with Stats: Double Your Displeasure
Fun with Stats: Double Your Displeasure
11/15/2003 09:57 AM
In an otherwise balanced article on Linux's challenge to Windows,
InformationWeek runs the following two charts: Notice, however, that
the Windows chart scales horizontally up to 80 while the Linux chart
only manages to get its concerns up to 40....
Webmin System stats
Webmin System stats
12/04/2003 11:52 AM
0.9.3 release
Sifry's bl0g stats
Sifry's bl0g stats
03/22/2005 03:45 PM
Dave Sifry has a three part series of posts about blog statistics.
(Part 1 -
Growth of Blogs, Part 2 -
Posting Volume, Part 3 - The
A-List and the Long Tail). I've posted some of the charts below.
More information and charts on his blog.
Comment - TrackBack
onis not irc stats 0.4.6 (Unstable)
onis not irc stats 0.4.6 (Unstable)
12/21/2003 03:37 PM
A script to convert IRC-logs into statistics.
BoingBoing stats under construction
BoingBoing stats under construction
12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin:
A quick housekeeping note: We're taking our web stats offline for a
bit, while we dig into some technical considerations about what data
is reported, and how -- to ensure maximum accuracy and clarity. We'll
make them public again when that's complete.
onis not irc stats 0.6.0 (Unstable)
onis not irc stats 0.6.0 (Unstable)
04/30/2004 03:41 AM
A script to convert IRC-logs into statistics.
A few boring Barbelith stats...
A few boring Barbelith stats...
04/24/2004 05:03 AM
A few interesting Barbelith
(temporarily closed for new members) stats which I compiled the other
day whlie trying to avoid work. In the last month there have been
14846 undeleted posts on the site, made by around 900 unique user
names. That makes around 480 new posts each day, with each user
posting around 0.5 times per day or 16 posts a month. After a
(hopefully) brief period of reworking, the site will be open again and
I hope to see all you guys there.
BT on child porn stats
BT on child porn stats
07/22/2004 06:25 AM
Replies to ISPA's concerns
Grok Description matches for Wordwide War Drive stats
GrokA matches for Wordwide War Drive stats
"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"
"Wikimedia Foundation Announces
Corporate Support of Wikipedia from
Yahoo! Search; Helps Allow the
Organization to Run Wikipedia
Independently"
04/09/2005 03:59 AM
WiMax In Slow Gear; Gear Makers Stymied
(Investor's Business Daily)
WiMax In Slow Gear; Gear Makers Stymied
(Investor's Business Daily)
04/13/2005 07:46 PM
Investor's Business Daily - An emerging wireless technology known as
WiMax has more range and is faster than the popular Wi-Fi standard.
Vernier Releases Upgrade
Vernier Releases Upgrade
02/10/2004 02:40 AM
Vernier Networks came out with an updated version of its WLAN security
and management platform: Network managers that use the product can
link bandwidth requirements with user profiles. The platform also
helps limit the damage to a wireless network after a worm or virus
attack. Infected users will be quarantined and barred from connecting
to the network. The new platform also offers a central management
console....
Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/-2005 Britannica
takeover of Wikimedia- - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
04/02/2005 05:11 AM
l'encyclopédie libre vient d'être achetée par
l'encyclopédie Britannica .. Wikipedia:April 1, 2005/2005
Britannica takeover of Wikimedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ..
Wikipedia sells out to Britannica ..
wikpediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Britannica_takeover_of_Wikimedia
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site | 3 links
Vulnerability Assessment Webinar Hosted
by Vernier Networks Discusses How to
Overcome Security Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Assessment Webinar Hosted
by Vernier Networks Discusses How to
Overcome Security Vulnerabilities
06/17/2005 04:23 PM
Vernier CTO Doug Klein to discuss how organizations are moving to a
dynamic security infrastructure with Network Access Management during
a free vulnerability assessment webinar on Thursday, June 9. [PRWEB
Jun 8, 2005]
Vernier Networks Selected for Wireless
Network Security Solution by ST. Agnes
Medical Center
Vernier Networks Selected for Wireless
Network Security Solution by ST. Agnes
Medical Center
05/31/2004 01:51 PM
Overall Cost of Deploying Secure Wireless Network Reduced with
Vernier’s ‘One-Click Configuration’ Access Management Solution [PRWEB
May 31, 2004]
Network Admission Management Solution
Offered by Vernier Networks Reduces
Intrusion Risks
Network Admission Management Solution
Offered by Vernier Networks Reduces
Intrusion Risks
02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Culver City endorses the industry’s only Network-Based Admission
Management solution from Vernier Networks. The Vernier Networks
Trusted Network Admission Management module will reduce intrusion
risks from vulnerable devices. [PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]
Network Access Management Appliance from
Vernier Networks, EdgeWall 7000, to be
exhibited at SANS 2005
Network Access Management Appliance from
Vernier Networks, EdgeWall 7000, to be
exhibited at SANS 2005
04/05/2005 02:17 AM
Vernier Networks will display EdgeWall Network Access Management
Appliance at SANS 2005 [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]
Adaptive Network Security Solutions from
Vernier Networks Make the Grade with
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges
Around the Globe
Adaptive Network Security Solutions from
Vernier Networks Make the Grade with
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges
Around the Globe
09/15/2004 02:13 AM
Vernier Networks’ adaptive network security solutions are protecting
more than 100 higher education networks serving over 2 million
students from worms and viruses likely to be launched as students
return to campus. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
Vernier Networks Locks Down Security at
the Network Edge with New EdgeWall
Security Appliance
Vernier Networks Locks Down Security at
the Network Edge with New EdgeWall
Security Appliance
02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Clientless Network Access Management solution stops internal threats
at the network edge - not the defenseless desktop [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]
Vernier Broadens Network Admission
Management Capabilities Through Support
of Network Access Protection Technology
from Microsoft
Vernier Broadens Network Admission
Management Capabilities Through Support
of Network Access Protection Technology
from Microsoft
02/01/2005 09:14 PM
Vernier Networks Joins Microsoft’s Network Access Protection Partner
Program to Deliver Secure Network Admission Management [PRWEB Jan 12,
2005]
WWW-Wikipedia-1.1
WWW-Wikipedia-1.1
08/20/2004 12:32 AM
WWW-Wikipedia-1.5
WWW-Wikipedia-1.5
03/23/2005 12:23 PM
Wikipedia Needs $20,000
Wikipedia Needs $20,000
12/29/2003 11:47 PM
Letter to
our readers and contributors: This is either heartbeaking or
inspiring, I'm not sure which. It turns out that Wikipedia is failing under the
load created by its popularity.
...the three servers that currently host all of
Wikimedia's projects in all languages are simply not enough,
especially as two of them have turned out to have hardware defects.
... I estimate that $20,000 in hardware would get us to a point where
we have reserves to handle the failure of any one machine.
Additionally, we would be well-poised to continue our track record of
astounding growth.
That's the heartbreaking part, since Wikipedia is one of the most
perfect Web resources ever created. But looking in on this page right
now (10 p.m. CST), I'm seeing "Money raised: $23,382.17." If that is
an accurate figure, and the Web community has altruistically pulled
Wikipedia out of a downward spiral, then it makes me glad to be
alive.
If someone can confirm that Wikipedia's needs have been met, please
post confirmation.
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WWW-Wikipedia-1.2
WWW-Wikipedia-1.2
09/01/2004 04:59 PM
Wikipedia Needs $20K
Wikipedia Needs $20K
12/28/2003 09:20 PM
WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
WWW-Wikipedia-1.0
08/10/2004 10:39 AM
Wikipedia Again
Wikipedia Again
12/17/2004 06:37 PM
“Reference Publishing” is the business of publishing “reference
works”: dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the like. By definition, it
includes the Wikipedia, which
is intended as a reference work. I have remarked kindly on
the Wikipedia and taken exception when
it came under attack. There have been a lot of voices chiming in on
this issue; herewith a survey and, based on my years in reference
publishing and because I care profoundly, I’ll add my own
observations...
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
11/17/2003 12:56 AM
MediaWiki 2003-11-17 release
WWW-Wikipedia-0.9
WWW-Wikipedia-0.9
08/05/2004 05:33 AM
Jew - Wikipedia
Jew - Wikipedia
04/14/2004 09:10 AM
definition of a Jew, or a Jewish person .. entry for the word Jew ..
Jewish .. Jews .. item .. Jewen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
track this
site | 5 links
Sollog and Wikipedia
Sollog and Wikipedia
12/17/2004 06:43 PM
Us
enet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia: This is absolutely
hysterical
Unable to accept that Wikipedia's policy of presenting a Neutral
Point of View means that an article on Sollog would have to include
both pro- and anti-Sollog material, and unable to force other
Wikipedia editors to accept his version of reality, Ennis has taken
instead to making hostile phone calls to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
at his home, and setting up his very own Wikipedia and Wales hate
site.
A while back, I asked if you've finally arrived when you get a
"watch" site -- http://www.google-watch.com
for instance.
Now I know the truth. You've finally arrived when you get a
"sucks" site. When http://www.gadgetopiasucks.com hits the Internet, I'm buying a Porsche.
A Wikipedia Blog
A Wikipedia Blog
01/16/2004 11:33 AM
I'm tempted to start a blog solely for linking to great Wikipedia entries. One of my
morning rituals is to hit the random page
link at Wikipedia and see where it takes me. I've found some
fantastic articles that beat anything in a paid resource.
Take a browse through the Billiant
Prose page and see gems like Sniper, Crushing by
Elephant (morbidly fascinating), Batman, Dick Tracy, James Bond, etc.
You could make an entire blog out of links to great Wikipedia entries.
According to the statistics page, there are almost 200,000 entries.
That should keep you busy for a while.
Someone should do this.
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The Wikipedia Blog
The Wikipedia Blog
05/19/2004 12:08 AM
WikiWisdom: I asked
for it, and someone went and did it...
A weblog dedicated to wikipedia.org? Why not. The content
is free, after all. The Wikipedia offers hundreds of thousands of
articles of information - that's right, hundreds of thousands. Of
course, many of those hundreds of thousands are rather short but the
sheer volume of information is amazing.
Click here to comment on this entry
Do the Wikipedia a Favor
Do the Wikipedia a Favor
01/07/2004 03:21 PM
The wonderful Wikipedia project needs help. Please donate
a bit; I did.
Some notes on Wikipedia
Some notes on Wikipedia
12/24/2004 12:35 PM
I've been driving myself crazy with coursework over the past couple
of weeks, and since it's always good to have something to take your
mind off things I've also been spending a fair amount of time lurking
around the beautiful Wikipedia. Here are a few things
about Wikipedia you may have missed:
- It's not just Wikipedia any more; there's also Wiktionary (a multi-lingual
dictionary), Wikibooks
(developing open content books on various topics), Wikiquote (quotations), Wikisource (a
repository of public domain source texts), Wikispecies (a
biological species database), Wikicommons (free images and
other media) and Wikinews (a new
Wikipedia-style news site). Not to mention the huge numbers of
projects in other
languages.
- You can view live stat graphs of the Wikipedia squid cache servers and see an overview of the status of all Wikipedia
servers.
- Last year's drive for
donations was mostly spent on new hardware, and a detailed list of hardware orders is
available.
- Wikipedia's awesome TeX engine for presenting mathematical
formulae may soon be expanded to support rendering of musical scores,
SVG graphics, chemical formulae and more, thanks to the brilliant Wikitex module for MediaWiki.
- Wikisource has a bunch of
stories by H. P. Lovecraft!
- Wikipedia's Peri
odic table links to detailed descriptions of every single
element.
- Live recent
changes feed is a page that shows edits to Wikipedia in real
time. It works by keeping the HTTP connection to your browser
open and sending updates packaged as JavaScript calls (I think this is
the same trick used by CGI:IRC).
- The channel #enrc.wikipedia on
irc.freenode.net carries a bot-produced live feed of
recent changes to Wikipedia. Edits occur so frequently that the bot
had to be split in to five to avoid being flooded off the
channel!
- Wikipedia has a huge va
ndalism problem, but malicious edits are cleared up so fast that
you'd be hard pressed to spot it.
- The Wikimedia foundation has an attractive quarterly newsletter,
the Wikimedia
Quarto. September's issue includes an
interview with Ward Cunningham.
- Wikipedia provides a great way to sharpen your language skills;
not only does Wikibooks have guides to teaching yourself French and German (among others) but the multi-lingual versions
of Wikipedia provide excellent practise in reading comprehension.
Compare the English and French entries on Bath, for example.
- The Wikimedia foundation recently received a small grant to
develop a series of children's books.
The deeper I dig in to Wikipedia, the more amazed I become. I see
it as more than just a collaborative encyclopaedia; it's a testament
to humanity's ability to work together for the greater good. I guess
you could say I'm in WikiLove
:)
Wikipedia Animate
Wikipedia Animate
06/24/2005 07:22 PM
Jon
Udell: Visualizing change: I wish I was Jon Udell, as he gets
everything he asks for. This time he — along with some help
from Andy Baio — got someone
to write a
script that animates Wikipedia changes inline. See the picture at
the above link, and he apparently has a screencast on it (that I
haven't watched).
Recently I wished out loud for an automated way to animate revision
histories in Wikipedia. Andy Baio liked the idea and sponsored a
contest for a script that would do that. There have been several
entries, and today's short screencast explores one of them: Dan
Phiffer's Wikipedia Animate.
The script is amazing. It's keyed off the "action=history" in the
URL, so it works on any Wikimedia wiki,
(including the one on my intranet) which is awesome (you have to have
Firefox with Greasemonkey installed, of
course.)
To use it, go to the "History" tab of a Wikipedia page, and select
two versions for comparison (for the best results, select the first
and current versions). Start the script and watch. You can pause it,
manually go forward and back, and even drag the little time indicator
to move back and forth.
This script has convinced me that I suck to the extreme, and so I'm
going to quit Web development and go work at McDonalds.
Wikipedia Reinvents
Wikipedia Reinvents
05/31/2004 11:29 AM
Wikipedia has reinvented
itself. It now supports discussions about any article, and
provices an easy way for users to look at previous article versions.
Maybe it could do this before -- but my memory and the Google cache
lead me to think not. To the jaded eye, this looks like just a
software upgrade. But the implications are greater than that.
Wikipedia is the great white hope for free (as in freedom) information
on the web, and this ups the ante. My big questions: Can they handle
the load? And how long before anyone notices?
Going Where the Users Are. Wikipedia?
Going Where the Users Are. Wikipedia?
01/05/2005 01:26 AM
There’s another Wikipedia discussion
ensuing on the WEB4LIB
mailing list (star
ts here), and so far my favorite response come
s from Ross Singer.
“I don't think the use of Wikipedia should be encouraged
or discouraged. It's a website just like any other, however, what
makes it special (and
therefore, more valuable than academic and
‘vetted’ sites, IMHO) is that people are actually *using*
it.
Therefore, what we need to do is create ways to access this
‘valuable’ information from /within/ these alternative
interfaces. This search in
Wikipedia also brings back x
number of results in Academic Search Premier (or whatever) and provide
a link to that canned search. Or this
movie that you are
looking at in IMDB is available from your local public
library.
I don't think the solution is to try to take people
away from ‘what is available with the least effort’.
Good God, no... at least they're
searching somewhere. The
much better approach would be to insert ourselves into their search
(wherever) and present alternatives to
whatever the user
got. We get really concerned about ‘branding’ and
making sure that people know where the resources they use come from,
but
this can be achieved (possibly better) through ubiquity than
through forced branding by forcing people into our resources and
websites.
If my library is just ‘everywhere’, then
I'm not nearly as likely to forget about
it.”
It’s obvious why I like
Ross’ post, right? The whole idea of going where your users are,
disintermediation, and becoming part of peoples’ trust circles
again. It’s a very Scan-like comment, as well as
being a great idea. What would happen if we started pointing to
library resources from within the entries?
Wikipedia enhancements
Wikipedia enhancements
05/31/2004 05:03 PM
I don't know when it happened, but Wikipedia has a stylish new
design in mostly valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional (the front page validates,
some of the inside pages do not) with a CSS layout to boot. They even have an option to turn off
the single layout table used on their home page. The site seems much
easier to navigate now and the organisation of the front page is a
masterpiece of information architecture. When you've got over 250,000
articles just in the English version providing a useful home page is
going to be a challenge, but Wikipedia pulls it off with aplomb.
Every time I visit Wikipedia I find something else to be
impressed by. This time round it was the Communi
ty Portal, which provides resources for Wikipedia contributors
including Things you can do, an Article of the week, a Tip of the day
and a myriad of other links. This is seriously well-organised content.
It's interesting to see how they deal with the challenges of 250,000
items in a single namespace as well.
Their recent Webby award for
best community was thoroughly deserved. And yes, they even encourage
people to collaborate on writing their press releases.
Wordwide War Drive stats
