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On this day, twenty years ago, on January 15, 2001, I started my third Website, Nodix, and I kept it up since then (unlike my previous two Websites, which are lost to history as Internet Archive didn't capture them yet, it seems). A few years later I renamed it to Simia.
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Did you know?
  
Here is the first entry: [[Willkommen auf der Webseite von Denny Vrandecic!]]
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole George Boole] - after whom the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_data_type Boolean data type] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra Boolean logic] was named - was the father of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Voynich Ethel Lilian Voynich] - who wrote [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gadfly The Gadfly].
  
My Website never became particularly popular, although I was meticulously keeping track of how many hits I got and all of this. It was always a fun side project for which I had sometimes more and sometimes less time.
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Her husband was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Voynich Wilfrid Voynich] - after whom the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript Voynich manuscript] was named.  
  
The funniest thing is that it was - and that was completely incidental - exactly the same day that another Website was started, which I, over the years, spent much more time on: Wikipedia.
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Ethel's mother and George Boole's wife was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole Mary Everest Boole] - a self-thought mathematician who wrote educational books about mathematics. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them.
  
Wikipedia changed my life, not only once, but many times.
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Mary Everest Boole's uncle was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest Sir George Everest] - after whom [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest Mount Everest] is named.
  
It is how I met Kamara.
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And her daughter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Everest_Boole Lucy Everest] was the first he first woman Fellow of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_Chemistry Royal Institute of Chemistry].
  
It is how I met a lot of other very smart people, too. It became part of my research work and my PhD thesis. It became the motivation for many of the projects I have started, be it Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata, or Abstract Wikipedia. It is the reason for my career trajectory over the last fifteen years. It is hard to overstate how influential Wikipedia has been on my life.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton Geoffrey Hinton], great-great-grandson of George and Mary Everest Boole, received the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award Turing Award] for his work on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning deep learning].
 
 
It is hard to overstate how important Wikipedia has become for modern AI and for the Web of today. For smaller language communities. For many, many people looking for knowledge. And for the many people who realised that they can contribute to it too.
 
 
 
Thanks to the Wikipedia community, thanks to this marvellous project, and happy anniversary and many returns to Wikipedia!
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:44, 5 February 2021

Did you know?

George Boole - after whom the Boolean data type and Boolean logic was named - was the father of Ethel Lilian Voynich - who wrote The Gadfly.

Her husband was Wilfrid Voynich - after whom the Voynich manuscript was named.

Ethel's mother and George Boole's wife was Mary Everest Boole - a self-thought mathematician who wrote educational books about mathematics. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them.

Mary Everest Boole's uncle was Sir George Everest - after whom Mount Everest is named.

And her daughter Lucy Everest was the first he first woman Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Geoffrey Hinton, great-great-grandson of George and Mary Everest Boole, received the Turing Award for his work on deep learning.

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