Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-07-11/In the news

• Der Standard is not an german Newspaper, it's from Austria. Marcus Cyron (talk) 01:58, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Changed. I hope the confusion wasn't over some German newspaper of the same name. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 08:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

• Hmmm, the xkcd reader's philososophy tool (mentioned in previous coverage) seems to exclude links in parantheses. For example, in Mathematics the first link should be Greek and not quantity. If we choose "Greek" instead of "quantity", we get a recurring loop that is Mathematics - Greek language - Indo-European languages - Language family - Language - Communication - Information - Sequence - Mathematics. Philosophy does not get pointed to. AshLin (talk) 04:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
  • It says "ignoring any that are italicised or nestled in brackets" (brackets is what the British call the round marks called parentheses in the U.S.) And what a strange thing this is; I just tried this with The Guardian, Walter Bache, SMS Radetzky, and Passer predomesticus, and each time it got to philosophy via sequence. —innotata 15:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

I have commented on, and documented sources for, the BrE use of brackets/braces/parenthesis on Talk: American and British English differences. Some people may misuse brackets, but formal and historic BrE practice is the same as AmE. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 10:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

page views in the last 30 days for Modern Philosophy as of July 14, 2011.

Regarding the effect of the "philosophy game", see the page views tool screenshot to the right. fuckin' hilarious!
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 23:34, 14 July 2011 (UTC)