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The most important people on Wikipedia might be Carl Linnaeus, Jesus, Michael Jackson, and Hitler
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The most important people on Wikipedia might be Carl Linnaeus, Jesus, Michael Jackson, and Hitler

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Ted Bauer
Jun 17, 2014
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If you use two approaches to ranking web pages -- PageRank (Google-developed) and 2D Rank (which measures how many external sources cited) -- and you apply those ranking systems to Wikipedia, here's what you learn about the "most important people in history:" 

Wikipedia PageRank Figures

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