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title: Wikipidia Citation Impact
date: 2026-05-28T10:00:58+08:00
categories:
  - visualisation
  - data
  - llms
---

Imagine you're an information anarchist. You undermine Wikipedia pages by nuking references.

A genie has granted you a wish: you can **nuke one entire domain**. Just one.

As a data-driven decision maker (who is _also_ an information anarchist 🤷), which would you pick?

A common choice is [The Internet Archive](https://archive.org/). 2.9 **million** Wikipedia pages reference it.

But, you're sneakier than that. A page isn't undermined just because some references are gone. It's undermined when _all_ the references are gone.

In that case, the most devastating domain to nuke is [Statistics Poland](https://stat.gov.pl/en). Over 45,000 Wikipedia pages cite _only_ Statistics Poland as their reference.

Or, if you're particularly fond of the Polish, destroy [sports-reference.com](https://www.sports-reference.com/). Over 37,000 pages cite it as their _only_ reference.

If you prefer hurting scientists, go for [biolib.cz](https://www.biolib.cz/) - an online encyclopedia of plants, animals, and very importantly, fungi. (But then, you don't _need_ to nuke it - the "server is experiencing high traffic" quite often.) In any case, this is where you'll find most satisfaction, as more sites depend solely on biodiversity and natural history archives like [marinespecies.org (WoRMS)](https://marinespecies.org/), [Natural History Museum](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/), [IUCN Redlist](https://www.iucnredlist.org/) than any other category.

For detailed research on which site you'd like to nuke, see [What If a Website Just Died?](https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/wikipedia-citation-impact/)

[![](https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/wikipedia-citation-impact/screenshot.avif)](https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/wikipedia-citation-impact/)