https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planckian_locus
That's the image of the temperature range (0,∞), mapped to the corresponding blackbody color in chromaticity space. The limit T -> ∞ is a point discontinuity near the center of CIE space.
Wikipedia's coverage of this topic has regrettably been unstable over the years. Broken chromaticity diagrams are so common, each time the graphic is swapped, it's a toss up whether it's a correct one. And then edits reflect that, and common misconceptions. Perhaps if WP had not just Article and conversational Talk pages, but also something like a writer's notebook, it might serve as memory, as immune system, as a place to caution "make sure when editing that you don't ...". Perhaps it will stabilize some day - the Sun[4] page seems to have at long last settled on a white-not-yellow Sun. Yay. That's more than several of the most used intro astronomy college textbooks have managed. Science education content is... something we struggle to do well.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png (13:38, 3 January 2012) [2] Obvious errors: the blackbody curve shown doesn't go through white, and does go through yellow. Incorrect white-point math is a recurring cause. [3] "It goes from deep red at low temperatures through orange, yellowish white, white, and finally bluish white at very high temperatures." (emphasis added) [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
https://www.livescience.com/17948-red-green-blue-yellow-stun...
1) Constant vigilance, to monitor the article and revert drive-by edits putting up random nonsense.
2) Solid political backup from other long-time wikipedia editors, to fight off constant AFDs and DRN attempts to destroy whatever you've done.
If at any point you slack off, the article will be gutted and replaced with garbage. This resembles any other human endeavor, in that you're valiantly resisting entropy while everyone in the world calls you a moron for even bothering.
As a disclaimer, I suppose I don't see any way this could be technically "fixed", short of replacing humanity with something else.
Most of those edits are minor. Most vandalism has already been reverted before I see it. A substantial wrong edit needs my attention maybe once a week.
When you speak of "valiantly resisting entropy", it sounds like a battle against the forces of Mordor. For me it's more like weeding the garden; a fairly pleasant activity, that's easiest if you do a little every day. You're still working against entropy, of course, but as you note that is like every other human endeavour.
There are articles I care about that I don't edit. These are mostly articles that some person or group reckons they "own". I don't edit anything to do with the Middle East, for example, nor any article about nationalist politics. Life's too short. I agreee there's no technical fix for that problem. There doesn't seem to be a social fix either; such articles are presumably just going to remain unreliable. Perhaps Wikipedia just isn't suitable as a repository for certain kinds of information.
Incidentally, articles on food seem to get nationalists going. The article on Biryani, for example is the subject of constant drive-bys, constantly flipping back and forth between India, Persia and Pakistan.
what does this mean?
I think the edit history is quite harmless on this article at least.
Strangely, I'm struggling to write this comment in a way that doesn't sound trolling...sorry, I don't mean trolling at all. If you could see my facial expression it would be easier...
A good set of people to practice this on is doctors, teachers and Twitter users you admire.
I work on displays within an OS team. Having some basic understanding of colour theory is critical for a significant number of modern display projects, particularly for the high end. For example, enabling colour accurate rendering (games, photos, etc), shipping wide-gamut displays (how do you render existing content on a WCG display?), etc. More specifically to the planckian locus, it generally comes up when deciding which white point to calibrate a given display to at the factory (e.g. iPhone is 6470K, S20 is 7020K in Vivid)[1][2] and if you're doing any sort of chromatic white point adaptation, like Apple's True Tone[1][2].
My background before joining the team was a degree in math, but I really enjoyed doing low level projects in my spare time, so ended up on an OS team. We also have colour scientists who study this full time and have a _significantly_ better understanding of it all than I do :)
[1]: https://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_13Pro_ShootOut_1M.htm#Whi... [2]: https://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S20_ShootOut_1U.htm#White... [3]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208909 [4]: http://yuhaozhu.com/blog/chromatic-adaptation.html