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#NYT: "Only 65% of Indian women are literate" Would spoken #Wikipedia help? tinyurl.com/354mcy 2/2 4:09 PM May 23rd via TweetDeck
NYT: "Mobile Phones Offer Indian Women a Better Life" nyti.ms/JdTZVy 1/2 4:08 PM May 23rd via TweetDeck
Work with Wikimedia : "You're not part of the team until you've taken the site out" 30 sec bit.ly/IVHLkm 6 min bit.ly/IVHMEV 5:27 AM May 15th via TweetDeck
Openstreetmap's growth accelerates bit.ly/IP2N3V "most visisble in emerging regions of the planet" animation: bit.ly/IP2Xs9 6:59 PM May 11th via TweetDeck
#OSM bloopers : Dictators are control freaks), few have their mountains arranged in a grid as nicely as Mr Assad here. bit.ly/IXp1GX 6:44 PM May 11th via TweetDeck
Stuart Geiger comments on his network protocol: 'IP over xylophon players': "Humans are really terrible interfaces" bit.ly/KuVEcs 3:14 PM May 11th via TweetDeck
Finally, a smartwatch buddy for my depressed smartphone. KICKSTARTER's instant hit Pebble is writing digital history kck.st/IBEhmm 11:27 AM May 5th via TweetDeck
+1 for Suan Cain's manifesto bit.ly/niyPmQ and this quiet quiz bit.ly/IBu Are you an ambivert? via @MarjonBakker 11:15 AM May 5th via TweetDeck
I hate software that works, still, probably, most of the time, sort of. As sw developer that makes me hate myself, sometimes, sort of. 6:05 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck
Larron plotted resilience of editors on Wikipedia/Citizendium/etc tinyurl.com/brcqzm6 10:31 AM Apr 7th via TweetDeck
via @MarjonBakker: great viz. of geo tagged articles on Arabic/English/etc Wikipedia, color by authors/edits/etc bit.ly/I0AKyO 10:11 AM Apr 7th via TweetDeck
WMDE announces Wikidata which will completely change quality, timeliness, consistency, reusability of open data tinyurl.com/cbvvsfa 2:40 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck
Vandaag nieuw begrip geleerd "degressief systeem": Ned. overheid geeft kwantumkorting aan broeikasgasproducenten. bit.ly/oAFGc0 3:02 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck
@weatherhead bit.ly/FPhHtp (from 2008 though) 4:19 PM Mar 18th via web in reply to weatherhead
I submitted a talk for Wikimania 2012 about editor profiling & (opt in ?) match making, based on analysis of user boxes bit.ly/xZFM5A 9:17 AM Mar 14th via TweetDeck
#Wikitrends 25 most popular #Wikipedia articles in their social context bit.ly/xaY62G blog post tinyurl.com/6rb3br7 8:16 AM Feb 21st via TweetDeck
Best project report I've seen for a long time bit.ly/cZVXLx 8:47 AM Feb 17th via TweetDeck
Metrics show #Wikipedia is still #Wikimedia's largest project ;-) bit.ly/zNWQRF 7:28 AM Feb 17th via TweetDeck
via @jfelipe , crazy fact 8: #IBM plans to map every archived tweet to #Wikipedia, and tag it with sentiment tinyurl.com/6o57f6l 10:00 AM Jan 26th via TweetDeck
Updated quarterly + trend reports of #Wikimedia Traffic by country. bit.ly/Aj0H1R 5:21 PM Jan 20th via TweetDeck

Name Erik Zachte
Location Leiden - Netherlands
Web http://infodisiac...
Bio Data Analyst WMF - opinionated nuance-seeker (mind you, most of the time to some extent!)