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With this and xkcd, I guess I'm about set with references for my dissertation.
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They've been cropping up lately. I'm sure to miss one or two, I can't go reread all of the archive even if it might be fun. (If you, dear reader, haven't read those archives, now could be a good time. Then you can tell me what I've missed. Then there will be cake.)

xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language by Randall Munroe. xkcd in Wikipedia.

Hm... It seems much of what I wanted to do here already is done towards the end of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_culture. So you can check that out also.

Comic 155 - Search History (I would have missed this one without "Wikipedia in culture".)
Comic 185 - Wikifriends (Wikis in general rather than Wikipedia, but still...)
Comic 214 - The Problem with Wikipedia (Of course...)
Comic 256 - Online Communities (South, center. No Wikipedia on Map of the Internet, it seems. There may be some technical reason.)
Comic 285 - Wikipedian Protester (Mm... quite... subtle, really. No?)
Comic 333 - Getting Out of Hand
Comic 446 - In Popular Culture
Comic 545 - Neutrality Schmeutrality (See also http://www.xkcd545.com/)
Comic 547 - Simple
Comic 548 - Kindle

Dates for these would have been neat.



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I lurk on the xkcd forum. I read the individual xkcd comics threads, seldom anything else .

In one thread, possibly the "The Problem with Wikipedia" Discussion, someone mentioned the idea of setting Wikipedia's "random article" function as your browser's "start page". I've done that. It's fun.

Some findings, randomly picked for this post (and of course you can get more, and possibly funnier ones, through the link above):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail (disambiguation page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru%C5%A1inec  (slovakian village and municipality)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Ibrahim_Al_Rewani (Libyan footballer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_the_form (mathematical term)

achei,
Martin

PS I guess a post titled "random" which mentions xkcd must link here . DS
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