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Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)

60 points by fod 16y ago

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Groxx 16y ago
I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from checking the history statistics.
- aristus 16y ago
  And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil.
  - Groxx 16y ago
    IMDB says "no": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ Battle!
  - forinti 16y ago
    Brésil, j'en suis sûr.
tptacek 16y ago
Once again, an "infographic" at InformationIsBeautiful.net contributes very little beyond the underlying prose it's based on (in this case a Google spreadsheet, which is actually easier to read).
- ajdecon 16y ago
  Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book. For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like: * Chart Porn (http://chartporn.org/ http://chartporn.org/) * Flowing Data (http://flowingdata.com/ http://flowingdata.com/) which also covers datavis software * Information Aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/ http://infosthetics.com/) * We Love DataVis (http://datavis.tumblr.com/ http://datavis.tumblr.com/) (edit: formatting)
mynameishere 16y ago
Every article is a potential unsuspecting victim of an edit war.
ErrantX 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they are still arguing over the Jesus article (I got sucked into it once, not pretty)
aufreak3 16y ago
I cracked up when I saw the "war" about the time signature of Pink Floyd's song "Money" - 7/8 or 7/4 or 21/8 :D
philwelch 16y ago
One of these I remember quite well--Angels and Airwaves "is" a band vs. "are" a band. Wikipedia's summary: More than 40 reverts in one hour by two editors. The point of contention? Whether "Angels & Airwaves" is a band or "Angels & Airwaves" are a band. (British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people, while American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity.) ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side. Stopped only after admin intervention, but resumed again two minutes after the 3RR block expired. Both get blocked for seven days, and one of them gets his block extended to eight days after stating he doesn't care as long as the other side gets a block of same length. The other side keeps his seven-day block. I was the admin in that case. It was my proudest moment in all of Wikipedia adminship.
- carussell 16y ago
  I think mentioning the British/American disparity does a disservice to demonstrating how truly ridiculous the argument was, because it distracts from what the "are" user was actually arguing, which is that "are" is correct because the subject is is named by a phrase comprising two things join by a conjunction, "and". Reading the actual "discussion" is both hilarious and depressingly frustrating. The Alex 101 user had to have been trolling, 'cause, I mean, come on.
  - philwelch 16y ago
    "Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English. Americans still say "Black and Decker is a company" or "Emerson Lake & Palmer is a band"--and those are non-metaphorical uses of "and" to name the members or founders of the group!
    - carussell 16y ago
      "Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English. Why are you explaining this to me? Like I already said, the argument didn't even have anything to do with British versus American conventions. That aspect wasn't even brought up until later by another user. Suppose the band wasn't called "Angels and Airwaves", but "Airwave Angels", and that it wasn't really a band in the literal/literary sense of the word―suppose it was a one-man production through-and-through. The user who raised the argument would have still argued for the change on the same basis, which was that it should be "are" because "Angels" is plural, regardless of the actual number of members and with no notion of British and American style differences. Bringing up the differences between British and American English legitimizes the issue slightly, but it was completely unrelated. Suggesting that it somehow has something to do with it detracts from how truly ridiculous the argument actually was.

60 points by fod 16y ago

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Groxx 16y ago

I love how the death star article is on there. Though I don't know that this qualifies as an infographic: the only info on it is title + num_edits. The relative sizes aren't informative, their locations aren't informative (horizontal or vertical, I'm sure the Jesus article is still highly edited). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars for the data. Not sure where to get the edit counts, aside from checking the history statistics.

aristus 16y ago
And, dammit, it's spelled Brasil.
- Groxx 16y ago
  IMDB says "no": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ Battle!
- forinti 16y ago
  Brésil, j'en suis sûr.

tptacek 16y ago

Once again, an "infographic" at InformationIsBeautiful.net contributes very little beyond the underlying prose it's based on (in this case a Google spreadsheet, which is actually easier to read).

ajdecon 16y ago
Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book. For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like: * Chart Porn (http://chartporn.org/ http://chartporn.org/) * Flowing Data (http://flowingdata.com/ http://flowingdata.com/) which also covers datavis software * Information Aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/ http://infosthetics.com/) * We Love DataVis (http://datavis.tumblr.com/ http://datavis.tumblr.com/) (edit: formatting)

mynameishere 16y ago

Every article is a potential unsuspecting victim of an edit war.

ErrantX 16y ago

I'm pretty sure they are still arguing over the Jesus article (I got sucked into it once, not pretty)

aufreak3 16y ago

I cracked up when I saw the "war" about the time signature of Pink Floyd's song "Money" - 7/8 or 7/4 or 21/8 :D

philwelch 16y ago

One of these I remember quite well--Angels and Airwaves "is" a band vs. "are" a band. Wikipedia's summary: More than 40 reverts in one hour by two editors. The point of contention? Whether "Angels & Airwaves" is a band or "Angels & Airwaves" are a band. (British English requires "are," as the band comprises multiple people, while American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity.) ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side. Stopped only after admin intervention, but resumed again two minutes after the 3RR block expired. Both get blocked for seven days, and one of them gets his block extended to eight days after stating he doesn't care as long as the other side gets a block of same length. The other side keeps his seven-day block. I was the admin in that case. It was my proudest moment in all of Wikipedia adminship.

carussell 16y ago
I think mentioning the British/American disparity does a disservice to demonstrating how truly ridiculous the argument was, because it distracts from what the "are" user was actually arguing, which is that "are" is correct because the subject is is named by a phrase comprising two things join by a conjunction, "and". Reading the actual "discussion" is both hilarious and depressingly frustrating. The Alex 101 user had to have been trolling, 'cause, I mean, come on.
- philwelch 16y ago
  "Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English. Americans still say "Black and Decker is a company" or "Emerson Lake & Palmer is a band"--and those are non-metaphorical uses of "and" to name the members or founders of the group!
  - carussell 16y ago
    "Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English. Why are you explaining this to me? Like I already said, the argument didn't even have anything to do with British versus American conventions. That aspect wasn't even brought up until later by another user. Suppose the band wasn't called "Angels and Airwaves", but "Airwave Angels", and that it wasn't really a band in the literal/literary sense of the word―suppose it was a one-man production through-and-through. The user who raised the argument would have still argued for the change on the same basis, which was that it should be "are" because "Angels" is plural, regardless of the actual number of members and with no notion of British and American style differences. Bringing up the differences between British and American English legitimizes the issue slightly, but it was completely unrelated. Suggesting that it somehow has something to do with it detracts from how truly ridiculous the argument actually was.