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34-507: Launched in 2006, the prize awards 5000 euros for each one percent improvement (with 500,000 euros total funding) in the compressed size of the file enwik9 , which is the larger of two files used in the Large Text Compression Benchmark (LTCB); enwik9 consists of the first 10 bytes of a specific version of English Misplaced Pages . The ongoing competition is organized by Hutter, Matt Mahoney, and Jim Bowery. The prize

68-523: A decompressor that decompresses to the file enwik9 . It is also possible to submit a compressed file instead of the compression program. The total size of the compressed file and decompressor (as a Win32 or Linux executable) must be less than or equal 99% of the previous prize winning entry. For each one percent improvement, the competitor wins 5,000 euros. The decompression program must also meet execution time and memory constraints. Submissions must be published in order to allow independent verification. There

102-511: A few editors. A 2010 study found unevenness in quality among featured articles and concluded that the community process is ineffective in assessing the quality of articles. Community-produced news publications include The Signpost . Other community news publications include the " WikiWorld " web comic, the Misplaced Pages Weekly podcast, and newsletters of specific WikiProjects like The Bugle from WikiProject Military History and

136-412: A goal-seeking agent in an unknown but computable environment is to guess at each step that the environment is probably controlled by one of the shortest programs consistent with all interaction so far. However, there is no general solution because Kolmogorov complexity is not computable. Hutter proved that in the restricted case (called AIXI ) where the environment is restricted to time t and space l ,

170-525: A renewable and sustained basis, with their numbers remaining relatively constant at approximately 42,000. The English Misplaced Pages has the Arbitration Committee (also known as ArbCom) that consists of a panel of editors that imposes binding rulings with regard to disputes between other editors of the online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales on 4 December 2003 as an extension of the decision-making power he had formerly held as owner of

204-482: A single form of English to creating separate versions of the English Misplaced Pages project. According to a style guideline, "the English Misplaced Pages has no general preference for a major national variety of the language" and "an article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation uses the appropriate variety of English for that nation." A 2013 study from Oxford University found that

238-489: A solution can be computed in time O (t2), which is still intractable. The organizers further believe that compressing natural language text is a hard AI problem, equivalent to passing the Turing test . Thus, progress toward one goal represents progress toward the other. They argue that predicting which characters are most likely to occur next in a text sequence requires vast real-world knowledge. A text compressor must solve

272-406: A table (shown below) that displays data of all rated articles by quality and importance, on the English Misplaced Pages. If an article or list receives different ratings by two or more WikiProjects, then the highest rating is used in the table, pie-charts, and bar-chart. The software auto-updates the data. Researcher Giacomo Poderi found that articles tend to reach featured status via the intensive work of

306-464: A year since the millionth Wikipedian registered an account in February 2006. Over 1,100,000 volunteer editors have edited Misplaced Pages more than 10 times. Over 30,000 editors perform more than 5 edits per month, and over 3,000 perform more than 100 edits per month. On 1 March 2014, The Economist , in an article titled "The Future of Misplaced Pages", cited a trend analysis concerning data published by

340-472: Is a 30-day waiting period for public comment before awarding a prize. In 2017, the rules were changed to require the release of the source code under a free software license , out of concern that "past submissions [which did not disclose their source code] had been useless to others and the ideas in them may be lost forever." English Misplaced Pages The English Misplaced Pages is the primary English-language edition of Misplaced Pages , an online encyclopedia. It

374-452: Is needed for the article to enter one of the quality classes: either " good article ", "A" or the highest, " featured article ". Of the about 6.5 million articles and lists assessed as of April 2022, more than 6,000 (0.09%) are featured articles, and fewer than 4,000 (0.06%) are featured lists. One featured article per day, as selected by editors, appears on the main page of Misplaced Pages. The Misplaced Pages Version 1.0 Editorial Team has developed

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408-405: Is the most-read version of Misplaced Pages , accounting for 48% of Misplaced Pages's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. The English Misplaced Pages has the most articles of any edition, at 6,917,066 as of November 2024. It contains 10.8% of articles in all Wikipedias, although it lacks millions of articles found in other editions. The edition's one-billionth edit

442-633: The Internet play a key role, as they provide the masses with open access to information . Wide dissemination of knowledge is inseparable from the spread of literacy . The Information Age is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the Industrial Revolution , to an economy centered on information technology . Digitization efforts by Google Books have been pointed to as an example of

476-480: The controlled digital lending model are also examples of democratization of knowledge. After the most powerful search engine, Google , and the most viewed online encyclopedia , Misplaced Pages , the most viewed information-based website is the Encyclopædia Britannica . An article written in 2005 by the editors of Reference & User Services Quarterly calls the library the greatest force for

510-410: The English Misplaced Pages had over 2,000 WikiProjects, for which activity varied. In 2007, in preparation for producing a print version, the English Misplaced Pages introduced an assessment scale of the quality of articles. Articles are rated by WikiProjects. The range of quality classes begins with "Stub" (very short pages), followed by "Start", "C" and "B" (in increasing order of quality). Community peer review

544-508: The English Misplaced Pages have pioneered some ideas as conventions, policies or features which were later adopted by Misplaced Pages editions in some of the other languages. These ideas include "featured articles", the neutral-point-of-view policy, navigation templates, the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories, dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, and weekly collaborations. The English Misplaced Pages reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, over

578-568: The Wikimedia Foundation stating that "[t]he number of editors for the English-language version has fallen by a third in seven years." The attrition rate for active editors in English Misplaced Pages was cited by The Economist as substantially in contrast to statistics for Misplaced Pages in other languages (non-English Misplaced Pages). The Economist reported that the number of contributors with an average of five or more edits per month

612-591: The criticism has been directed toward its content, community of established volunteer users , process, and rules. Critics have questioned its factual reliability , the readability and organization of its articles, the lack of methodical fact-checking , and its political bias . A notable discussion within the English Misplaced Pages community concerns the preference for national variety of the English language, particularly American English and British English . Various suggestions have been made, ranging from standardizing

646-514: The democratization of knowledge or information. It continues to say that public libraries in particular are inextricably linked with the history and evolution of the United States, but school library media centers, college and university libraries, and special libraries have all also been influential in their support for democracy. Libraries play an essential role in the democratization of knowledge and information by providing communities with

680-599: The democratization of knowledge, but Malte Herwig in Der Spiegel raised concerns that the virtual monopoly Google has in the search market , combined with Google's hiding of the details of its search algorithms , could undermine this move towards democratization. Google Scholar (and similar scholarly search services ) and Sci-Hub (and similar scholarly shadow libraries ) have also been pointed to as examples of democratization of knowledge. Open Library 's and HathiTrust 's digitization efforts and their use of

714-642: The monthly newsletter from The Guild of Copy Editors . There are a number of publications from the Wikimedia Foundation and multilingual publications such as the Wikimedia Blog and This Month in Education . Democratization of knowledge The democratization of knowledge is the acquisition and spread of knowledge amongst a wider part of the population, not just privileged elites such as clergy and academics. Libraries , in particular public libraries, and modern information technology such as

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748-993: The most disputed articles on the English Misplaced Pages tend to address broader, global issues. In contrast, articles on other language Wikipedias often focus on regional issues. This pattern is attributed to the status of English as a global lingua franca , leading to contributions from many editors for whom English is a second language . The study identified the most disputed entries on the English Misplaced Pages as George W. Bush , anarchism , Muhammad , list of WWE personnel , global warming , circumcision , United States , Jesus , race and intelligence , and Christianity . 2024 research have determined that several groups of connected accounts have coordinated to promote Russian propaganda narratives and state-controlled media sources in articles, related to Russian-Ukrainian relations and Russia's war with Ukraine . There have been reports of threats of violence against high schools made on Misplaced Pages. For instance, in 2008, Glen A. Wilson High School

782-481: The promotion of democracy and active citizenship. Dan Cohen, the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, writes that democratic access to knowledge is a profound idea that requires constant tending and revitalization. In 2004, a World Social Forum and International workshop was held entitled "Democratization of Information: Focus on Libraries". The focus of the forum

816-469: The resources and tools to find information free of charge. Democratic access to knowledge has also been co-opted to mean providing information in a variety of formats, which essentially means electronic and digital formats for use by library patrons. Public libraries help further the democratization of information by guaranteeing freedom of access to information, by providing an unbiased variety of information sources and access to government services, as well as

850-465: The same problem in order to assign the shortest codes to the most likely text sequences. Models like ChatGPT are not ideal for the Hutter Prize for a variety of reasons, they might take more computational resources than those allowed by the competition (computational and storage space). The contest is open-ended. It is open to everyone. To enter, a competitor must submit a compression program and

884-427: The site. When it was founded, the committee consisted of 12 arbitrators divided into three groups of four members each. In 2022, for English Misplaced Pages, Americans accounted for about 40% of active editors, followed by British and Indian editors accounting for about 10% of each, and Canadian and Australian at about 5%. The free online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages has been criticized since its creation in 2001. Most of

918-589: The total volume of the compressed texts of its articles amounted to 20 gigabytes . The edition's one-billionth edit was made on 13 January 2021 by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Steven Pruitt) who as of that date is the user with the highest number of edits on the English Misplaced Pages, at over four million. Currently, there are 6,917,066 articles created with 930,481 files. The encyclopedia is home to 10.8% of articles in all Wikipedias (down from more than 50% in 2003). The English Misplaced Pages currently has 48,331,687 registered accounts of which 851 are administrators. Editors of

952-419: Was announced on August 6, 2006 with a smaller text file: enwik8 consisting of 100MB. On February 21, 2020 it was expanded by a factor of 10, to enwik9 of 1GB, the prize went from 50,000 to 500,000 euros. The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organizers believe that text compression and AI are equivalent problems. Hutter proved that the optimal behavior of

986-501: Was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Misplaced Pages's first edition. English Misplaced Pages is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation , an American nonprofit organization . Its content is written independently of other editions in various varieties of English , aiming to stay consistent within articles. Its internal newspaper is The Signpost . English Misplaced Pages

1020-409: Was frequently criticized in the 2000s, it has improved over time, receiving greater praise in the late 2010s and early 2020s, having become an important fact-checking site . English Misplaced Pages has been characterized as having less cultural bias than other language editions due to its broader editor base. The English Misplaced Pages surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020. In November 2022,

1054-401: Was made on 13 January 2021. English Misplaced Pages, often as a stand-in for Misplaced Pages overall, has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge , extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias , particularly gender bias against women and ideological bias . While its reliability

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1088-564: Was relatively constant since 2008 for Misplaced Pages in other languages at approximately 42,000 editors within narrow seasonal variances of about 2,000 editors up or down. The number of active editors in English Misplaced Pages, by "sharp" comparison, was cited as peaking in 2007 at approximately 50,000 and dropping to 30,000 by the start of 2014. The trend analysis published in The Economist presents Misplaced Pages in other languages (non-English Misplaced Pages) as successful in retaining their active editors on

1122-454: Was the subject of such a threat. Additionally, in 2006, a 14-year-old was arrested for making a threat against Niles West High School on Misplaced Pages. A " WikiProject " is a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Misplaced Pages. These groups may focus on a specific topic area (for example, women's history ), a specific location or a specific kind of task (for example, checking newly created pages). As of August 2022,

1156-485: Was to bring awareness to the social, technological, and financial challenges facing libraries dealing with the democratization of information. Social challenges included globalization and the digital divide , technological challenges included information sources, and financial challenges constituted shrinking budgets and manpower. Longtime Free Library of Philadelphia director Elliot Shelkrot said that "Democracy depends on an informed population. And where can people get all

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