If the BLT's simplicity earns its inventor "hero" status, what of the villain who invented this monstrosity?
Seeking sandwich history: A Gizmodoadvertorial for the
Hormel meat company asked about the invention of the
BLT: What Hero Invented the BLT? The author quoted the Wikipedia article and looked for further information about the history of the sandwich. Our
BLT article was first created in September 2002. Despite the article's having achieved the
good article status in 2011, no one has uncovered such a "heroic" inventor. Lucikly, Hormel has not attempted to claim inventorship to date. Though not mentioned by Gizmodo, there was a period of time where our article on
S'mores claimed they were invented by "
Loretta Scott Crew", a falsehood which still gets repeated from time to time. (December 16)
number of backlinks from within enwiki, as reported in Wikidata, and,
total number of articles in different-language Wikipedias. (December 30)
Top ten Wikipedia stories of 2016: Wikipedian
WWB presented
his picks for the top stories of last year. A worthy complement to
our own rundown; he caught some good ones that we missed, as well as covering many of the same stories. (January 3)
Students heard that Google was trustworthy and Wikipedia was not: That's the message Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd heard in researching her book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. She wrote up the issue in
Did Media Literacy Backfire?, a post for the Data & Society Points blog. (January 5)
Comrades mourn red-linking: Canada Free Press wrote up an unsuccessful campaign to save an article about satire website The People's Cube(archive) article from deletion (
AfD discussion). The People's Cube website also celebrated the demise of the article with various graphics and commentary:
The People's Cube Article has just been Deleted from Wikipedia (article and commentary). The article was deleted for lack of notability. (January 10)
Beyond the locker room: When a Miami Dolphins quarterback took a hard hit during a football game, editors got busy vandalizing the
Matt Moore article to report him as "deceased". The edits and Twitter reaction were noted by sportswriters at
all22.com and the Palm Beach Post. The Post article also noted a trend in such edits relating to sports events. (January 9)
Viewing stats make beautiful music: In a story about past "Best New Artist" Grammy winners, the Tucson Suncovered the entertainment data project PrettyFamous. Using Wikipedia article view statistics as part of an algorithm to assign a "Musician Score", the project determined artist popularity and interest. (January 13)
“
Musician Score. This is a score out of 100 that is a weighted average of a musician's Wikipedia page views over the last 30 days, the Wikipedia page views over the last 30 days of the bands they were/are in, the number of followers they have on Spotify and the Wikipedia page views of both their releases as solo artists and in bands.
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If the BLT's simplicity earns its inventor "hero" status, what of the villain who invented this monstrosity?
Seeking sandwich history: A Gizmodoadvertorial for the
Hormel meat company asked about the invention of the
BLT: What Hero Invented the BLT? The author quoted the Wikipedia article and looked for further information about the history of the sandwich. Our
BLT article was first created in September 2002. Despite the article's having achieved the
good article status in 2011, no one has uncovered such a "heroic" inventor. Lucikly, Hormel has not attempted to claim inventorship to date. Though not mentioned by Gizmodo, there was a period of time where our article on
S'mores claimed they were invented by "
Loretta Scott Crew", a falsehood which still gets repeated from time to time. (December 16)
number of backlinks from within enwiki, as reported in Wikidata, and,
total number of articles in different-language Wikipedias. (December 30)
Top ten Wikipedia stories of 2016: Wikipedian
WWB presented
his picks for the top stories of last year. A worthy complement to
our own rundown; he caught some good ones that we missed, as well as covering many of the same stories. (January 3)
Students heard that Google was trustworthy and Wikipedia was not: That's the message Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd heard in researching her book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. She wrote up the issue in
Did Media Literacy Backfire?, a post for the Data & Society Points blog. (January 5)
Comrades mourn red-linking: Canada Free Press wrote up an unsuccessful campaign to save an article about satire website The People's Cube(archive) article from deletion (
AfD discussion). The People's Cube website also celebrated the demise of the article with various graphics and commentary:
The People's Cube Article has just been Deleted from Wikipedia (article and commentary). The article was deleted for lack of notability. (January 10)
Beyond the locker room: When a Miami Dolphins quarterback took a hard hit during a football game, editors got busy vandalizing the
Matt Moore article to report him as "deceased". The edits and Twitter reaction were noted by sportswriters at
all22.com and the Palm Beach Post. The Post article also noted a trend in such edits relating to sports events. (January 9)
Viewing stats make beautiful music: In a story about past "Best New Artist" Grammy winners, the Tucson Suncovered the entertainment data project PrettyFamous. Using Wikipedia article view statistics as part of an algorithm to assign a "Musician Score", the project determined artist popularity and interest. (January 13)
“
Musician Score. This is a score out of 100 that is a weighted average of a musician's Wikipedia page views over the last 30 days, the Wikipedia page views over the last 30 days of the bands they were/are in, the number of followers they have on Spotify and the Wikipedia page views of both their releases as solo artists and in bands.
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'404 no more' Am I blind or did we forget to link to or name such an extension? What a great way to be non-helpful: "there is this cool tool you may find useful. We won't link it and won't mention its name. Go see if you can find it with those vague clues." Fail. Can the author please expand this blurb with something that won't make people waste few minutes trying to find this extension?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:28, 17 January 2017 (UTC) reply