Monday

Another week, another set of challenges, opportunities, and mental dragons to slay. To get you started, we review a few stories about Wikipedia, the White House, and a show that has been off the air and never available on streaming for the last 30 years until now.

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Anyone who has ever used the Internet to research anything or look for answers to questions has been to Wikipedia. A website and concept that works at the most basic level as a community-driven information hub. Information is added to Wikipedia, and people can edit the information up there if and when information may be cited and edited for accuracy. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most popular websites on the Internet, and anything that becomes this massive is only as good as the data it receives, including citations and the work of volunteer editors.

Most of us have used Wikipedia, and we use it the same way we use most things we find online: to validate or direct us to additional information. Most of us think a published encyclopedia has gone through all the necessary citations as of its printing, and has accurate subject information. However, we don't feel as certain with an online publication; but the speed with which we can look up multiple sources, citations, and information helps us clarify the information we consume.

In the same way, Twitter is driven by a small percentage of users, Wikipedia is driven by an even smaller percentage of volunteer editors. In a deep dive by Chartr, less than 1,000 admin-level editors are involved with Wikipedia; in addition to a limited paid staff, less than 1% of Wikipedia's users have edited any articles on the site. Twitter's LOUD users seem similar to Wikipedia's Editor Heavy Load users. That points to what works in theory, which is usually doomed in practice when you rely on an all-volunteer force to keep your [data] space clean.

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A sleeper start to this 80s show led to a respectable 5 season run, and since we have seen multiple reports of this show finally coming to streaming, it felt appropriate to take a quick look back. The show ran from 1985 through 1989, and according to Radhika Jones, who writes for Vanity Fair, it has never been in syndication. In short, unless you bought a VHS or DVD box set of this little gem, memories are all you have. Hulu is about to change all that, and the show is streaming now. Jones goes on in this article to provide some of her favorite highlights from memory before she goes in and watches them again. Her details on her favorite episodes aren't bordering on obsessive; it's straight-up obsessive.

Cybill Shepherd (Maddie) and Bruce Willis (David) star in a show that uses the backdrop of a detective agency as its premise, but the show is about the two of them and the dialog between the haves and the have-nots, or men and women, or pursuit and hard-to-get, I could go on… Like many shows from 30 years ago, you must prepare yourself for what it won't have. Still, the dynamic between the main characters played to top levels between Shepherd and Willis, is enough to give you a sense of appreciation for an early version of what I call dialogue dramas from writers like Sorkin and others where the character is the story. 

Another clip from Weird History is brought to us by Ranker, a website that lets you vote on everything? Ranker is a media company that puts out content and videos and asks users to vote on all of them; according to its website, Ranker believes "Editors Create, Users Participate." This story and accompanying video list 30 things you might not know about living in the White House. Here are three of our favorites:

Monday Haze.

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