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Monthly Archives: February 2014

Points of view

For many years, Henrik has single-handedly (based on data by Domas) done what the world’s top 5 website has consistently failed to provide: Page view information, per page, per month/day. Requested many times, repeatedly promised, page view data has remained proverbial vaporware, the Duke Nukem Forever of the Wikimedia Foundation (except DNF was delivered in […]

Modest doubt is called the BEACON of the wise

Now that I got Shakespeare out of the way, I picked up chatter (as they say in the post-Snowden world) about the BEACON format again, which seemed to have fallen quiet for a while. In short, BEACON is a simple text format linking two items in different catalogs, usually web sites. There are many examples […]