22 of the Coolest, Freakiest Articles on Wikipedia
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How I Became Gaming's Most Popular and Anonymous Photographer
I'm a very accomplished photographer. My photos have been in magazines, newspapers, textbooks, blogs, online videos, television and any other medium that you can think of. My work has been seen by millions and will be one of the most important resources for the history of video games. The only catch is that I'm almost…
The Man Who Photographed All The Video Game Consoles
You know those awesome pictures of video game hardware that Wikipedia is full of? They don't just appear out of nowhere. Someone has to own the hardware, and someone has to take the picture.
Cards Against Humanity Makers Donate $70,000 To Wikipedia
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'Tis the season for giving, sure, but this is still a bit extreme. The makers of the obscene (and funny) card game Cards Against Humanity have recently shared the financial results of their pay-what-you-want holiday expansion.
The Dangers of Using Wikipedia for Video Game History
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When I put Total Recall stories together, I use a ton of sources. My memory/brain, for one, but also specialised history and collector sites, weird blogs, books, all kinds of places. Wikipedia is, sometimes, one of those places.
It's Insane How Many People Read Gaming Wiki Pages Every Month
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Signalling just how radically the way we read and learn about video games has changed over the past decade, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales now says he has the world's biggest network of gaming sites on the internet.
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Remembering Old Man Murray, the Website That Rebooted Games Journalism
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Our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the PC gaming partisans, uncovered a bit of a snarl in the Wikipedia page for now-primordeal gaming protoblog, Old Man Murray. An overzealous—or perhaps simply vindictive—Wikipedia editor had deemed the entry about OMM "unnotable" and fit for deletion. But within 24 hours, RPS had…
In Video Games, What's Worth A Wiki Entry?
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The amount of video-games related content on Wikipedia is staggering; I can't recall the last time I entered a title into its search and could not find a complete entry. As Wired writes, however, not everything passes moderation. Should it?
Fifteen Minutes on Wikipedia is Like a Semester at Yale, if Yale was a…
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Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool for half-assing term papers graduating on time research. One thing, however, that hasn't changed is the length of an article still means…