Wikipedia Definition and 132 Threads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_%28electrical_component%29 The wikipedia article on lamps says the following: "A lamp is a replaceable component such as an incandescent light bulb, which is designed to produce light from electricity." Some lamps are powered from gas, not electricity.

Hey guys :) One thing that really gets me whilst reading sites like Wikipedia is the differences in spelling (US English vs. British English) that are o various Wikipedia sites. One of the main differences is the use of -ize in US English compared to -ise in British English. South African...

? I seem to be able to do all my maths homework using Wikiepdia as a resource alone. It is so good for definitions and examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics#_note-16 Says the following: Theoretical physics has historically rested on philosophy and metaphysics; electromagnetism was unified this way.[20] Reference: 20 ^ See, for example, the influence of Kant and Ritter on Oersted. Does anyone know...

I found the following in Wikipedia on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank_length: Question: what is the mechanism through which the interaction of a photon with an object could (even in principle) cause the object to become a "minuscule black hole"? I understand that this is a...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287194,00.html "Web Time Stamps Indicate Nancy Benoit's Death Reported on Web at Least 13 Hours Before Police Found Bodies in Her Home" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Benoit&oldid=141250251 near the bottom: "On June 28, FOXNews.com reported that...

Has anybody here ever played this game when you were bored? First you go on Wikipedia and select some random article. Then, you find a link on the page and go to the article it links to. Continue this process for long enough and you'll eventually end up at some article which you would never...

Does anyone here think that wikipedia and google are some sort of free schooling?

Now that we have established that physicists do not need to study math proofs or do rigorous math problems, but rather just understand the math tools well enough to use them, I was wondering if a physicist can just get by in learning the math tools in a qualitative, prosaic, way as in wikipedia...

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Why is the Wikipedia article about Bell's spaceship "paradox" disputed at all? Link to the article This problem is ridiculously simple. The condition that the spaceships experience the same acceleration implies that their world lines will have the same shape. (The acceleration doesn't have...

It is known that some wikipedia articles are not credible. Hell, I've been hearing this a lot lately. I constantly use wiki as a refresher and for quick info, yet I never found any such article(s). Does anyone know any incorrectly written articles from wiki in the areas of physics, math, EE...

Alright forumers, I've heard numerous complaints about the quality of http://en.wikipedia.org" physics articles - an opinion which I share. Far too often they're undetailed, far too technical, and just plain confusing. So who better to rectify the situation than us? I'm looking for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_singularity#Effects

I hear a lot of controversy about Wikipedia. I'm curious what kind of support people have for their arguments for or against it as a resource (for academia and career). I've found it useful several times, myself, and a lot of information I've never been able to find before is now available...

Hi, You have most probably heard about the internet phenomenon Wikipedia, now the world's largest, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. But currently, the article on Newton's laws of motion is in a poor state. It needs your help to get upto shape. You can edit the page by clicking the edit...

I am trying to import the a wikipedia 5.6 GB XML dump into MySQL 5.0 using mwdumper. The problem is that the temperature of my hard disk is reaching 50C (120F) after just 30000 pages. Is there any way to prevent this or to import the wikipedia dump into MySQL in parts? Speed is not an issue so...

It's the end of the world! http://en.wikipedia.org/

Hey folks, I'm currently studying sequences and the like in Calc 2, and I went to Wikipedia for another explanation about them. The example given in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_%28mathematics%29" seems to be incorrect to me. The example is this: \sum _{n=0}^{\infty...

I am aware that there are some errors in Wikipedia on the science side. My question is how much and how large of errors? Do you, the users of PF "trust" the information found at wikipedia?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm Great news, but I wish they could have published this last week when I was writing an analysis on the validity of my Wikipedia references for my coursework

0.99999... = 1? I found the following proof on Wikipedia. It looks fine, but I can hardly imagine it to be right... Another kind of proof adapts to any repeating decimal. When a fraction in decimal notation is multiplied by 10, the digits do not change but the decimal separator moves one...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutronium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neutronium#Disputed:_Periodic_table BAH! I'm tired of this, the disputes, the misinformation, incorrect equations and terms, and I am requesting that somebody(s) from here contribute a little, so I can sleep at night...

Thanks to Wikipedia, I can study for my history test quicker! Instead of utilizing the index, flipping pages, and scanning, I can just type and read!

I've found that it's a very useful resource, but I've been having a look through their policies and guidelines etc, and it seems like no one strictly moderates content. Surely this system is prone to accumulating incorrect information, be it deliberate or accidental. How reliable a source do you...

Do you think sources like wikipedia.org and similar websites are adequate for information and research?

A very funny parody of Wikipedia, check it out. :smile: Also, here is an http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia and Wikipedia article about Uncyclopedia. The subjects in Uncyclopedia can be really odd, I found the http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice to be one of the funniest I...

Was Wikipedia Hijacked? Check this yourself ... I just attempted to go to the Hague Invasion Act following the link in Yahoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague_Invasion_Act On this page, sombody had imbedded a re-direct to: American Servicemembers' Protection Act Hmmm ...

[SOLVED] Frivolous theorem of arithmetic on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frivolous_Theorem_of_Arithmetic There's a debate on whether we should delete this theorem from Wikipedia because some consider it "useless". Should it be deleted?

The Wikipedia entry is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afshar_experiment Afshar's blog is here: http://irims.org/blog/index.php/2004/09/25/questions_welcome So the idea seems to be that opening the second hole causes an interference pattern that...

Hey guys I just discovered (lol) Wikipedia the other day.. What stops anyone from going in and just destroying all the articles?

Wikipedia is potentially like a supplemental textbook which is online and instantly available In another PF context someone was interested in getting an intuitive layman's idea of topics in these Wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_principle...