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Dark Wikipedia

01 May, 2025 - 137 words
I use a browser extension which always redirect wikipedia articles to their mobile equivalent (chrome, firefox). I find this much less cluttered and much more legible but it hides the settings scr...

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wiki-fying bbc.co.uk

05 October, 2004 - 359 words
Stef Magdalinski has done something very clever. Fresh from his work on theyworkforyou.com, he’s set up a proxy to the news.bbc.co.uk website which scans the content for capitalised phrases and acronyms and replaces them with links to

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821

09 March, 2004 - 59 words
Old-fashioned sources only work the best when you use old-fashioned search queries. Not true – in her solution the librarian used an encyclopedia. Taking the same approach to the web would have led me to use Wikipedia, which would have given the librarian t...

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