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How Reliable Wikipedia Really Is
How reliable and accurate is Wikipedia? Here I explain how some Wikipedia articles are reliable and some are not. I also explain how to approximate the quality of an article based on its characteri...

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There are plenty of GIF-filled rabbit holes into which a person can wander and never return. Tumblr is perhaps the most daunting maze of all, providing us with enough looping images of a twerking Niki Minaj to co-opt an entire workday. But while the GIFs you find on Tumblr, Giphy and Buzzfeed are great, theyve got nothing on the procedural beauty of Wikipedia GIFs.

A couple years back, the website Wikigifs introduced the online masses to the glorious GIFs that accompany Wikipedia entries. It was a revelationhow was it possible that we never noticed the mesmerizing beauty of a boxer engines churning motion before? Left alone, the GIFs on Wikipedia are pure art. But in the hands of Evan Roth, theyre high concept.

Roth, whose touchscreen artwork we recently featured, is back with another project inspired by our digital lives. This one, titled No Original Research, takes GIFs found on Wikipedia and turns them into single-serving websites. Click on a title like catenary-on-azure, and youll be directed to a webpage where a single catenary chain multiplies into dozens and then hundreds, forming a beating circular GIF made from hundreds of individual GIFs.

Each composition is made by copying an individual GIF hundreds of times. Roth gives each GIF a separate file name, so when they load into a web browser, they load sporadically. When the browser tries (and fails) to load all of the files simultaneously they become out of synch, creating an animation cycle that visualizes the latencies specific to the viewer, writes Roth. Each viewing is a unique experience dictated by the speed of the network, the browser used and the speed of the computer.

No Original Research is a riff on Roths earlier net art series, A Tribute to Heather, in which Roth creates similar webpages using animations from early web animation database Heathers Animations. Roth says the work is partially a reaction to the self-centric atmosphere of the web. So often the GIFs we see are an attempt of self-expression, another way of demonstrating who we are and what we know. Wikipedia is one of the few places on the web thats really free of ego at the moment, right? he says. All these animated GIFs on Wikipedia that arent about people posting cool animated GIFs on their tumblr blogits just like someone needed to describe how that hinge worked or how that engine worked, so they made these animations that have a reason for being there.

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A severe fire season can now safely be attributed in part to climate change, agree Labor's Pat Conroy and Liberal Andrew Laming, but not individual fires.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt was given a thorough briefing about the effects of climate change on Australia's weather patterns three weeks before he told a BBC radio interview he had sourced information on bushfires and global warming from Wikipedia.

Confidential Bureau of Meteorology briefings, obtained by Fairfax Media through freedom-of-information laws, show senior officials warned Mr Hunt that the extreme heat that baked Australia in 2013 was "unprecedented" before Mr Hunt downplayed any link between fires and climate change in an interview with the BBC's Newshour in October last year.

The initial briefings show officials advised Mr Hunt that recent extreme heat was consistent with "a pattern of global warming", while subsequent advice in November said climate change had increased the odds of "severe weather conducive to severe bushfires occurring".

Firefighters battle a blaze in the Blue Mountains in September, 2013, a month of "unprecedented" high temperatures. Photo: Nick Moir

The documents shatter claims made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who last year dismissed any link between global warming and bushfires, and show the extent to which the government has been advised of climate change's influence on recent extreme weather in Australia.

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Mr Hunt was questioned on Newshour on October 23 last year and appeared to use Wikipedia to defend the Prime Minister's assertionthat United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres was "talking out of her hat" when she said bushfires were linked to climate change.

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