I’ve been re-reading the Wikipedia page on Connascence. It references the famous talk by Jim Weirich in its references.
Tag Archives: wikipedia
Mathematics
So I found my way to the a Mathematics article on Wikipedia. Good reading!
Weasel Words
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Today I learned about weasel words at Wikipedia…
Free software licenses
I was doing some research about free software licenses as a part of developing ProgClub’s terms and conditions, and found this list of free software licenses from the FSF, and the same list of FSF approved software licenses on Wikipedia. I noticed the cool table sorting facility they have on the Wikipedia page, and wonder if that’s built in to MediaWiki..? It would be cool if it only required a class specification to have it work like that.
Communism is like Academia is like Wikipedia
They all sound great in theory, with their lofty ideals, but the closer you get to them the more you realise their proponents and participants are generally small-minded closed-minded exclusive elitist authoritarian wankers of the first order.
MediaWiki/Wikipedia content distribution
Involved in some design discussion on the wikitech mailing list.