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Cory Doctorow, a Rare card
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420,000
Power 165 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Cory Doctorow quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cory Doctorow card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity ______.
Answer
economics. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. From the Cory Doctorow article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry 89 · Cory Doctorow 82 · Virgil Abloh 79 · Ginger Baker 75 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.
- He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of its licences for his books.
- Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cory Doctorow article was read about 420,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Cory Doctorow
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cory Doctorow (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dominik Butzmann / re:publica, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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