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- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -12/+146You can also use it to aid law enforcement by reporting crimes before they are committed.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Death_of_Nancy_Benoit_rumour_posted_on_Wikipedia_hours_prior_to_body_being_found - nymphetamine, on 10/11/2007, -5/+72Huh, I never even thought to look up 'breast' with wikipedia. Hi-res nipple pic FTW!
- agrabob, on 10/11/2007, -10/+61dugg for "teacher of sex positions"
- Solidcell, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30Torrents are legal. There's nothing illegal about the Bit Torrent protocol.
- kirtap, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28 * TV Episode Guide. Just search for “list of ____ episodes” with the name of the show, and you will see every episode catalogued and summarized, often with trivia and other factoids.
* Cliffs Notes Replacement. Don’t want to read that weighty tome for your literature class? Don’t worry, Wikipedia is on your side. Just type in the name of the book, and you will be presented with a plot summary, themes, symbols, and other in-depth analysis.
* Learning Activities. This is from Wikiversity, a Wikipedia sister site. Whether you are a student wanting extra practice for a difficult subject or a teacher looking for homework assignments or handouts for your students, Wikiversity provides tutorials and worksheets on subjects ranging from AJAX programming to Philosophy. Wikiversity is currently woefully incomplete, but many subject have lengthy, well-written tutorials.
* Stock Images Collection. Need royalty-free stock images for your next web design or desktop publishing project? Turn to Wikimedia Commons, where you can browse images by subject, licence, or author. So if you need, for example, a radioactive Diderot for that big presentation to the investors, you’re all set.
* Music Database. Want to discover new music? Wikipedia has extensive cataloguing of music by genre, making it easy to find similar bands to those you already like.
* Time Capsule. Want to know what people thought of a topic years ago? Wikipedia archives all changes, so simply by clicking on the “history” tab on top of the page and then “Earliest” on the very bottom you can see an article as it was written years ago. Aside from demonstrating the fluid and ever-changing nature of Wikipedia, but also offers a glimpse into how people thought years ago. The value of this technique will increase over the years as Wikipedia gets older.
* Future Planner. Just as it can go backward in time, Wikipedia can also go backward forward. Wikipedia has articles stretching far into the next millennium. Want to see what you need to schedule for 2008? How about the World Cup in 2038? And be sure(assuming you’ve reached immortality) to pencil in the unsealing of that time capsule in 8113 AD.
* Trend Tracker. Perhaps even more important than what people are searching for on Google or other search engines is what people are researching. This page show the most popular Wikipedia articles. For example, following the Super Bowl, a lot of people went to research Prince,whose search numbers spiked recently. A list of sexual positions, however, remains an all-time favorite. Which brings us to our next and final topic:
* Teacher of Sex Positions. The list is more comprehensive than most books on the topic, complete with pictures. Hell, you can even use Wikipedia to look for porn. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23*DICTIONARIES* ARE COOL!
- DoctorZombie, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24Also in a pinch, you can print off the pages and use them as a weapon to ward off predators.
- mrpink.137, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22If only Wikipedia had a "Did you mean" feature...
- natjo1986, on 10/11/2007, -14/+33In Soviet Russia Wikipedia looks up 9 things it didn't know about you!
- anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22Oh you didn't just make me search for that...
Royalty free nipples ftw! - Lyght, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18The cartoon at the end is so true. I wind up reading things not even related to what I went to Wikipedia to look up.
- beckspace, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15The Future (acording to wikipedia):
2058 - The Beatles catalogue will enter the public domain.
2060 - Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of The Bible, would end no sooner than this year.
2061 - Halley's Comet makes a return to the inner solar system.
2062 - Age of Aquarius will begin.
2085 - The last day of Sega Dreamcast clock that loops to January 1, 1950.
2085 - Windows 1.01 celebrates its 100th aniversary.
2222 - At 02:22:22, February 22,the date will read something like: 2222-02-22 02:22:22.
2230 - Spock is born. - dictum, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12If something is un-true posted to the Wiki the Wiki makes it true. Its basic physics.
- deltawk, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Something that not enough people do - EDIT!
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+11Something they missed was using it as a translator. Go to the article for just about any noun (for example, "whale" or "tower"), then click on one of the languages in sidebar. The title of that article is your human-edited, more-reliable-than-babelfish translation.
- sauron256, on 10/11/2007, -8/+18You can also use it to preview any celebrity murder-suicides that will be happening tomorrow!!!
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15Cool now i can wear my "DICTIONARY'S ARE COOL!" shirt.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11You obviously have no use for such information
- Speed, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13Down...
http://www.duggmirror.com got it. - a0me, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Love Wikipedia but its search function is borderline useless.
- nolesshabitual, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7too true, and i get so into it that if i hit an article with noo interesting links i'll click the random article button.
- nolesshabitual, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7it's a starting point, you can use the referenced works as your sources
- mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7not when you spell them right.
- nolesshabitual, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6*encyclopedias* are cool
- Psygnosis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It forgot marking articles as not notable and removing trivia sections.
- GruntSquaThrust, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Finally, A list that is useful in life!
- quez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Well, it's a good article, but most people who spend a ridiculous amount of time on Wikipedia (namely, myself, and probably quite a few diggers) probably knew most (if not all) of that stuff already.
- M3RCINIAN, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11Bah, boring. Google has way more fun secret stuff.
- Primous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Note that the list of sex positions has a label that reads, "The neutrality of this article or section is disputed." i couldnt understand why until I saw this..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DoublePenetration.svg - speerross, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I do use it to check if there is a leaked copy of something (albums usually) a few days before theyre released in stores
- djempirical, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"2058 - The Beatles catalogue will enter the public domain."
of course that will never happen; the laws will simply change again and again you keep it under control. - invertedtwisted, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I really do want to and feel like I should, but I can't find one subject I'm knowledgeable on that doesn't already have ridiculously extensive amounts of information. All I can ever do is correct little mistakes in grammar or punctuation : (
- Chingmiester, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6DVDA FTW!!!
- TheTankengine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4xkcd provides the "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding):" directly on the front page of the site.
Your comment is incredibly lame and will be dugg down for pointlessness. - orangemarmalade, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Well, I'm getting sick of sex on teacher positions.
- Sabretou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I did know most of these, but I've dugg because it's time somebody started appreciating Wikipedia,
- djempirical, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4it'd be nice if Wiki's internal search weren't so anemic. if i'm searching for anything remotely obscure, i just start with google and include "wikipedia", rather than using wiki's engine.
- Scheitbag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4One of my favorite uses for Wikipedia is using it to properly catalog newly downloaded MP3s. That way i know the actual order of tracks, what order the albums came out, etc. Anyone else this anal about their music files?
- PrometheusTitan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3My personal favourite useless-but-cool Wikipedia feature is six degrees of Wikipedia:
http://tools.wikimedia.org/sixdeg/
Find out how any two articles are related via links through other articles. - nationalist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3if you're talking about pirated stuff, i'm sure wikipedia would have it on their front page
- a0me, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia but it's the first time I've heard of the "8113 AD" page.
- fiestycrumbler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Its good to know that Anna Nicole Smith is the number 4 on most searched. Impressive use of wikipedia to its full potential
- HisTumness, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yes! That's exactly what I thought when reading this too. Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary are useful for this. Another great resource is to look up an English word in the Wiktionary for another language, and get all of the different possible translations with their different shades of meaning. Invaluable. For an example of what I'm talking about: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/run#Anglais
- crossmr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"Want to discover new music? Wikipedia has extensive cataloguing of music by genre, making it easy to find similar bands to those you already like."
Depends on your definition of new. New bands don't usually have notability and aren't on wikipedia. At best you're going to find established bands you just haven't bothered to look at. - Lazyboy0172, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5i knew most of those. Whenever I miss a movie, television show, or am supposed to read a book I check out wiki, usually the perfect place for plot outlines. Wikipedia on Cell Phone during tests FTW
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How about wiki can kill wrestlers families.
- op12, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Here's what should be the Wikipedia search function:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:wikipedia.org&q=terms
Replace "terms" with your actual search terms and you're good to go. - s4z3n, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2great new stuff to waste time at with wiki. There is also this game where you can start from a random page and in 7 clicks get to the Jesus page.
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yeah. The RIAA.
- GiggleStick, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hey avi, look this up.
http://merriam.com/dictionary/joke -
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