Wikipedia hell: a portrait

Sat down for some laptop/TV time this evening and, having read The Frog Prince to my daughter this evening, thought to myself “Hmmm, I’ve heard the original Grimm Fairy tales were pretty rough, I wonder if I can find any of the originals”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm (7/23 21:06:28)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosegay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_comparison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disyllabic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitivity_(grammatical_category)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexis_(linguistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Syllable#Dubious
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_substrate_hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2_word_order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negau_helmet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_dialects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_regional_phonology#St._Louis_and_vicinity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_consonant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fricatives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner%27s_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle-axe_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IndoEuropeanTree.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/IndoEuropeanTree.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_copula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_copulae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputes_in_English_grammar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Prince
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Prince_(story)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne-Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Barbara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel_syndrome (7/24 00:10:41)

Of course, I’m not done reading, but I got sidetracked seeing if I could pull up this information programmatically (I need a project!). It’s not even that extreme of a case!

I wonder if there’s a Firefox extension that would draw a graph (in the mathematical sense) of refers. Even better, a time-scale animation that draws the referrer graph in proportionate time to give a sense of how long stuff was read. Though that;s note really what that would do I guess. Perhaps you need the extension to record the front-most window first? Hmmm.

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