Agronesia

By Anonymous coward on Slashdot, with some modifications:

Teacher: “Did you write this whole thing yourself?”
Student: “Yes, of course!”
Teacher: “Are you sure”
Student: “Yes, 100%”
Teacher: “Well, a huge chunk of your report is straight from Wikipedia. I already checked it.”
Student: “Um, yeah, well, um I wrote that Wikipedia page.”

Luckily in Wikipedia we have complete log of edits, so that claims like that can be checked :).

It was really painful for me to register and register again on different WikiMedia sites. I have accounts on the Indonesian and English Wikipedia plus some other ones. Luckily, they now have a single unified login system!

I just unified my accounts today, and the process is simple. Just go to the Special:MergeAccount page on one of the wikis which you have an account already. For me I chose http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount. Then just follow the wizard!

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You surely must have seen the logo above lots of times, right? The characters in the puzzle pieces there represent scripts from different parts of the world. Each Script should show the letter that most closely resembles “wi”, the starting syllable of Wikipedia.

However, let us look at the katakana inside it:

See anything wrong?

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