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Submission + - Wikipedia Edits Around the World (wikimedia.org)

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billlava

on Monday May 23, 2011 @06:02PM

billlava writes: "Wikipedia continues on its inexorable march toward becoming the repository for the world's knowledge — to the tune of four and a half edits a second. Just who is doing all these edits? And where do they live? Erik Zachte compiled data from a day in May 2011 into an interesting set of animations and maps to show update activity as it occurred during the day.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/requests/"

Submission + - Valve engineers weed out bad 'lying' game servers (teamfortress.com) 1

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billlava

on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:24PM

billlava writes: "Tired of Team Fortress 2 servers that lie in order to attract players, engineers at Valve (creators of the Half Life franchise) have come up with a way to weed out servers that give false information about the number of players online, or custom server options.

After kicking around some proposals, we came up with a simple system built around the theory that player time on a server is a useful metric for how happy the player is with that server. It's game rules agnostic, and we can measure it on our steam backend entirely from steam client data, so servers can't interfere with it. We already had this data for all the TF2 servers in the world, allowing us to try several different scoring formulas out before settling on this simple one that successfully identified good & bad servers...

Of course, this only works with their games running on Steam."

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