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Erik Zachte

@Infodisiac

Data Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation (Retired) - on even days opinionated nuance-seeker, on odd days into oddities

 Leiden - Netherlands
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Joined October 2008
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Why we all should move to The Hague in the Netherlands…
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New York City article on Dutch Wikipedia on iPad. Wikipedia rendering of page on mobile is slightly 'out of tune'. Could use 'a little help from human friends'.
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It's wacky, it's tacky. @amazon just Basic'd the Everyday Sling and we're not even mad. youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2…
A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics

A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics

First thing first: get your own googley-eye glasses for ridiculing ...

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“Wil elke soldaat het centrale nummer bellen om te horen waar en wanneer hij of zij aan moet vallen?” #GGD kan nog wat over logistiek leren van professionals. Er zijn ziekenhuizen waar altijd een oud-militair in de raad van bestuur zit, om logistiek gekluns te voorkomen.
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Nato Green@natogreen15 Oct 2018
Some people feel like there's no reason to #vote. They ask "what do politics have to do with me?" I answer that question once and for all, with #comedy . #gotv #bluewave WATCH:
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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr
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State of Map 2019 streaming videos at streaming.media.ccc.de/sotm2…
Wikimedia Sweden, tack så mycket! Also for great remote experience.
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Mark Graham at Wikimania Sweden on 20+ years Internet Archive youtube.com/watch?v=doGyAS_-… (skip to 2:30:40)
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Wikimania 2019 opening keynote: Michael Peter Edson on UN Sustainable Development Goals "Design for Head, Hands and Heart together to tackle huge problems" youtube.com/watch?v=5QcVwNgO…
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Boekhandels lanceren alternatief voor bol.com: bookaroo.nl/ (en: bookshops launch competitor for Dutch 'Amazon')
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MIT CSAIL
@MIT_CSAIL6 Dec 2018
Almost 50 years ago, routers cost $500K & the Internet looked like this. bit.ly/1JQCw6R (v/@binarybits @voxdotcom) #ARPANet #tbt
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Wikipedias, participation per language, speakers broken down by continent. For interactive viz. click bit.ly/2p6u7cg (you can also zoom in on one continent).
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New viz: Wikipedias, participation per language (= active editors per million speakers) bit.ly/2oTl9im (repost with fixed legend)
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New viz: Wikipedias, participation per language (= active editors per million speakers) bit.ly/2oTl9im
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What do Cecilia Payne and Rosalind Franklin have in common? Both women upturned science, but men got famous for it. RF: structure of DNA, CP: our sun (and by extension the universe) consists mostly of hydrogen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecili… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosali…
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