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Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

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> What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?

Hehe, there's another name for what you're describing: baader-meinhof effect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect

Everything has a name nowadays. Taxonomies are almost complete :)

I swear i'm seeing the Baader-Meinhof effect come up more and more frequently recently.

I thought the current rate of references to it was normal? :P

At least since I've been browsing HN, it's been this way and I quite enjoy it. Lot's of Wikipedia pages I would otherwise not stumble upon. Usually, they are quite relevant to something happening in current events.

Same for me. I've been conditioned in a way to expect Wikipedia posts on HN to be interesting, and I'm rarely let down.

Probably my all time favorite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

I suspect their record is incomplete since I don't see some pretty hot threads from the past few weeks, but https://hntrending.com/domains/all/index.html does purport to accumulate domains/listings/score.

Full English Wikipedia is 15 over both the past year and all-time, 6 over the last month, but back down to 12 over the past week.

(This rank is just based on points, but it lists total points. I don't see a way to force it to re-sort, but it wouldn't be too hard to re-compare them by volume.)

They have always been there, but in recent months the frequency has increased a little, and a lot in the last two weeks or so.

I guess I should mostly attribute it to the Baader-Meinhof effect [0] then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_effect

..creeping normality

I’ve seen it for a while. My 2c.

They’re usually off beat enough to be interesting.

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