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Aaron Swartz, an Epic card
Aaron Hillel Swartz, also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 94
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 610,000
Power 184 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Aaron Swartz quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Aaron Swartz card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is often credited as a martyr and a ______, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism.
Answer
prodigy. He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism. From the Aaron Swartz article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Valentino Rossi. Valentino Rossi 97 · Aaron Swartz 94 · Golden Gate Bridge 89 · Lee Min-ho 86 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS, the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses, and the Python website framework web.py.
- Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit until it was fully sold in 2006 and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007.
- He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Aaron Swartz article was read about 610,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 94 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Aaron Swartz
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Aaron Swartz in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Aga Khan IVEpic · History · ATK 85 DEF 99
- Søren KierkegaardEpic · Arts · ATK 91 DEF 93
- Prime numberEpic · Science · ATK 88 DEF 96
- Iberian PeninsulaEpic · Nature · ATK 89 DEF 95
- Lee Min-hoEpic · Arts · ATK 86 DEF 98
- Valentino RossiEpic · Society · ATK 97 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Aaron Swartz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jason Scott, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
