slashdot.org
Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site users and editors. Each story has a comments section attached to it where users can add online comments. The website was founded in 1997 by Hope College students Rob Malda, also known as "CmdrTaco", and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Hemos". In 2012, they sold it to DHI Group, Inc.. In January 2016, BIZX acquired Slashdot Media, including both slashdot.org and SourceForge. In December 2019, BIZX rebranded to Slashdot Media. More information...
Multilingual Wikipedia
In June 2020 the website slashdot.org was on the 2,606th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 5,254th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "slashdot.org" is the 3,052nd most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before books.com.tw and after italiancharts.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
2,606th place 3,052nd place 5,254th placeEnglish Wikipedia (en)
2,183rd place 2,372nd place 4,930th placeJapanese Wikipedia (ja)
2,035th place 3,854th place 3,268th placeSpanish Wikipedia (es)
2,766th place 3,418th place 4,775th placeRussian Wikipedia (ru)
2,688th place 2,638th place 6,436th placeGerman Wikipedia (de)
3,246th place 2,667th place 5,735th placeFrench Wikipedia (fr)
3,548th place 3,763rd place 7,289th placeWikipedia Languages
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About project
Popularity and reliability assessment of sources in references of Wikipedia in different languages. Data extraction based on complex method using Wikimedia dumps in July 2020. To find the most popular and reliable sources we used information about over 200 million references of Wikipedia articles. More details in the research "Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia". Values for PR-score and AR-score were additinaly increased 100 times (to distinguish smaller values in the ranking).