Importing from Wikipedia without duplicates

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This FAQ explains the use of incremental reading in SuperMemo. Incremental reading is the universal speed learning technique pioneered by SuperMemo since 2000

Wikipedia duplicates

The following video explains a couple of techniques useful when working with Wikipedia:

Incremental reading: handling duplicates on the role of anandamide in runner's high:

  • detecting duplicate pages (those that have already been imported from Wikipedia)
  • browsing duplicate pages
  • importing from Wikipedia (via Internet Explorer)
  • enhancing extracts in the learning process (increasing the priority and shortening intervals)

FAQ

Question

You say that concepts are secondary in learning, but the video shows a very long list of concepts. Why so many?

Answer

Concepts are useful containers for subset review or neural creativity. Each time you focus on a major area of interest, it makes sense to conglomerate all associated knowledge in a single concept. Even if you generate a concept per week, you will get 50 new concepts in a year.