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Visualizing Wikipedia Editors

Introduction

I was recently contracted by my friend, Morgan Currie, in the new media masters program at the University of Amsterdam, to construct visualizations of Wikipedia editing activity across the articles pertaining to Feminism, a topic subject to intense debate and occasional vandalism. Her aim was to analyze Wikipedia’s validity as a source in scholarly research. Her results may be found in this PDF.

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I Love Jekyll

S3 Sync of large files via rake task

Using gist numbers in the template

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Varnish Setup for Wordpress

Here’s the gist of it:

All configs are available as a gist from GitHub.

	size(520, 620)
	from math import pi

	data = [i
	#User,"Feminism","History of Feminism","Women's Suffrage","Women's Rights","Radical Feminism","Ecofeminism","Men's Rights","Antifeminism","Sex-Positive Feminism","Men and Feminism","Liberal Feminism","Cultural Feminism","Anarcha-Feminism","Feminist Theology","Marxist Feminism"],
	["Cailil",701,91,22,60,10,14,35,0,0,18,3,16,2,0,1],
	["Catamorphism",120,0,0,0,10,0,0,15,28,0,0,0,0,0,0],
	["SmackBot¬†(bot)",32,13,10,7,15,2,18,12,6,10,4,3,2,3,2],
	["Dysprosia",97,2,0,0,6,0,9,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0],
	["Binksternet",27,6,60,0,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0],

	<object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' width='300' height='300' id='player1' name='player1'>
	<param name='movie' value='player.swf'>
	<param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'>
	<param name='allowscriptaccess' value='always'>
	<param name='flashvars' value='file=playlist.xml'>
	<embed id='player1'
	name='player1'
	src='player.swf'
	width='300'
	height='300'

	require 'formula'

	class Vim < Formula
	homepage 'http://www.vim.org/'
	# Get stable versions from hg repo instead of downloading an increasing
	# number of separate patches.
	url 'https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/', :tag => 'v7-3-548'
	version '7.3.548'

	head 'https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/'

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import re
	import mechanize
	import sys
	import string

	print 'Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.'
	print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)

	[mysqld]
	character-set-server=utf8
	default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci