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"plaintext": "I love Wikipedia — as a useful shared resource of the knowledge commons, yes, but also as a big open project with lots of weird bits and meta quirks, and as a fount of inspiration for adjacent projects. "
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"plaintext": "Which…maybe these all amount to the same thing! Anyway here are a few favorite parts of Wikipedia, and some related project ideas."
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"plaintext": "Here's one cool thing maintained by Wikipedia: Vital Articles, a list of what they consider their most important article topics, with five different levels in increasing orders of magnitude."
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"plaintext": "It's fun to browse this progressively more exhaustive set of lists, starting with super broad articles like \"earth\" and \"science\", and later specific people, buildings, objects, subfields, theories."
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"plaintext": "Idea: Wiki Wiki Wow!"
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"plaintext": "An idea for a podcast that consists of reading particularly cool and interesting Wikipedia articles out loud — a way for others to discover and learn about highly curated concepts."
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"plaintext": "It could even be layered or iteratively expanded: start with a summary (skip the boring parts), then a dramatic reading of an article in its entirety, then with added commentary, then with multiple people in dialogue on the topic."
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"plaintext": "I've found so many weird cool concepts on Wikipedia; this would be one way to share them…other than time, a big reason I never tried making this is I personally don't much like podcasts lol."
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"plaintext": "Combining the idea of a personal canon with that of a corpus of concepts, including but not limited to the aforementioned list of favorite Wikipedia articles."
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"plaintext": "A number of years ago I made a personal canon and included a few Wikipedia articles. But I actually have a much bigger list of concepts I've encountered, many with their own Wiki articles."
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"plaintext": "Still on my to do list to publish this collection somewhere! And it'd bring some fun opportunies for personal tagging / taxonomies."
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"plaintext": "Random idea I haven't explored, but: it'd be fun to trawl Wikipedia, draw phrases and interesting bits from lots of different articles, and weave them together into some imagined / invented new articles!"
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"plaintext": "Great Wikipedia lists"
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"plaintext": "Wikipedia has so many great lists, both articles that are themselves list-based, and meta-lists used to organize other articles. I made an Arena collection of favorites I've found."
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"plaintext": "Linguistic example sentences, humourous units of measurements, English words without rhymes, films featuring time loops, unsolved problems…"
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"plaintext": "Also meta ones like \"good articles\" or \"unusual articles\"; \"list of lists of lists\" is a particularly good one."
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