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MediaViewer and Superprotect Recently, a heated discussion started on the German Wikipedia about Superprotect. This article should give a very short summary how it came to this discussion. Timeline 25. July 2014: Straw poll in the German Wiki began (link) 08. August 2014: Straw poll in the German Wiki ended. 72.5% voted … Read More »

Disable Wikipedia fundraising banner I didn't spend this year for Wikipedia because of the advertising. It really got on my nerves: Wikipedia advertising - Fundraising campaign But you can simply disable it: How to disable Wikipedia fundraiser You only have to go to: Preferences → Gadgets tab → Browsing → check "Suppress display of the fundraiser banner" Now … Read More »

How to reverse engineer a function I am currently improving many articles on Wikipedia as a preparation for some math exams. And I recently started to create images with LaTeX / TikZ. Today, I've found this image in the article about the Intermediate value theorem: Pixel-image of a function from Wikipedia Get special points As a first … Read More »

Using Wikipedia as a Newssstream I am very interested in the development of Google+. As I am also quite active on Wikipedia (just take a look at my edit counter) I add all topics in which I am interested in to my personal watchlist. I added the RSS-Feed to my feed reader. So I get … Read More »

Python: Check Wiki-references for citation template Wikipedia articles are full of references. Those references should be formatted the same way. It is much easier to use a template for citations than trying to guess the right way how to cite. Unfortunately most Wikipedia users don't know the Template:Citation. So I try to fix all manual … Read More »

Freaky Wikipedia Articles Wikipedia has a lot of articles (> 3.7 million). Sometimes, people have funny ideas for redirections / new articles: Pitbull with Lipstick - redirected to Sarah Palin The belief that a cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically … Read More »