Wikipedia is used as a reference source for this blog many, many times. It's not countless times as the number could be counted, I just couldn't be bothered to do it. Therefore, we go with 'many, many' as the only other choice is to get a real count and that's not going to happen.
Note: it could be possible. Maybe I export the blog as that writes the entire thing to a single file. Open that and 'find wikipedia.org' should give a hit count. If I don't get lazy then I will update with the number later.
Update: 289
Socialism is a favorite theme here and Wikipedia is one outstanding example of it as there are few things so socialized insofar as anyone can update the content. There's a wee bit of bureaucratic process to get it started and it's necessary or it would decay into the kind of anonymous thuggery of a CNN news comment thread. Besides ... alles sind Deutscher in unsere Herzen (all are Germans in our hearts).
(Ed: wtf?)
There was a warning the other day in a video authored by a young German man who advises us on the kind of Ausländer (foreigner) who should stay home. He specifically said don't come if you can't handle the bureaucracy. We don't exactly love our bureaucracy but we've got it and if you can't handle that then you probably won't enjoy Germany much.
Google became the repository for Where to Go to Find Stuff but the one thing it can't find is the only entity ever to have used Bing. Google has captured a tremendous amount of information but it doesn't have much value as knowledge except in a commercial sense and for some esoteric fields of sociology and psychology, maybe others as well ... dunno.
Wikipedia became the repository for Where to Go to Learn Stuff from a cadre with a high level of accreditation. There is no replacement for degree programs but Wikipedial, for my purpose, serves better than anything else I've ever seen for a survey course of just about anything.
Note: a 'survey course' is a type of class usually offered to freshmen in university and this is the introductory survey of the field. Sometimes people refer to Chemistry 101 or Biology 101 and that's the same type of thing in offering a survey of Chemistry or Biology.
In my life, the degrees I did not get are much more obvious to me than any I did and this is where Wikipedia serves so wonderfully for me. I can get the survey course on any mad topic that may come to me and I don't even have to leave the chair. Unless your purpose is to go on to research, in many cases the survey course is all you need.
All of the above is a lead into a pitch to support Wikipedia. They aren't running a campaign just now and they run them rarely. All I could kick toward the last was five dollars but a good socialism means that's all anyone has to do ... so long as a lot of people do it.
Note: it could be possible. Maybe I export the blog as that writes the entire thing to a single file. Open that and 'find wikipedia.org' should give a hit count. If I don't get lazy then I will update with the number later.
Update: 289
Socialism is a favorite theme here and Wikipedia is one outstanding example of it as there are few things so socialized insofar as anyone can update the content. There's a wee bit of bureaucratic process to get it started and it's necessary or it would decay into the kind of anonymous thuggery of a CNN news comment thread. Besides ... alles sind Deutscher in unsere Herzen (all are Germans in our hearts).
(Ed: wtf?)
There was a warning the other day in a video authored by a young German man who advises us on the kind of Ausländer (foreigner) who should stay home. He specifically said don't come if you can't handle the bureaucracy. We don't exactly love our bureaucracy but we've got it and if you can't handle that then you probably won't enjoy Germany much.
Google became the repository for Where to Go to Find Stuff but the one thing it can't find is the only entity ever to have used Bing. Google has captured a tremendous amount of information but it doesn't have much value as knowledge except in a commercial sense and for some esoteric fields of sociology and psychology, maybe others as well ... dunno.
Wikipedia became the repository for Where to Go to Learn Stuff from a cadre with a high level of accreditation. There is no replacement for degree programs but Wikipedial, for my purpose, serves better than anything else I've ever seen for a survey course of just about anything.
Note: a 'survey course' is a type of class usually offered to freshmen in university and this is the introductory survey of the field. Sometimes people refer to Chemistry 101 or Biology 101 and that's the same type of thing in offering a survey of Chemistry or Biology.
In my life, the degrees I did not get are much more obvious to me than any I did and this is where Wikipedia serves so wonderfully for me. I can get the survey course on any mad topic that may come to me and I don't even have to leave the chair. Unless your purpose is to go on to research, in many cases the survey course is all you need.
All of the above is a lead into a pitch to support Wikipedia. They aren't running a campaign just now and they run them rarely. All I could kick toward the last was five dollars but a good socialism means that's all anyone has to do ... so long as a lot of people do it.
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