#Wikipedia accounts to follow:
➡️ @wikipedia - Official account for Wikipedia
➡️ @mediawiki - Free open software that powers Wikipedia
➡️ @kiwix - Free open app to browse & search Wikipedia offline
➡️ @WikiSignpost - Independent news site covering Wikipedia & Wikimedia
➡️ @wikiresearch - Latest academic research about Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia
➡️ @wmlgbt - Improving LGBTQIA+ history articles on Wikipedia
➡️ @WikimediaIE - Irish Wikipedia user group
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True, but surprising to see in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦:
"#Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1
"The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it."
🚨 Save the date: 17.10.25 - 19 Uhr
Ich freu mich sehr, den nächsten netzpolitischen Abend in #Innsbruck @itsyndikat moderieren zu dürfen.
Thema ist "Die Rolle Freien Wissens in den Krisen unserer Zeit" ✨
Wir haben 2 spannende Vorträge:
I. Nachhaltigkeit nachhaltig sichtbar machen: #Wikipedia in der Klimakommunikation @uniinnsbruck @melaniebartos & Tobias Kleinlercher
II. Freies Wissen in der Demokratiekrise @nini @WikimediaAT
托管了一个kiwix知识库
含有28个zim文件，大小为53GB，包含了绝大部分中文wiki以及感兴趣的几个ted-xxx.zim，从 https://library.kiwix.org/ 使用aria2c直链下载
1. 接下来是上传到backblaze B2
2. 以及设置密码（ ？）
├── chinese.stackexchange.com_mul_all_2025-12.zim
├── gutenberg_zh_all_2025-12.zim
├── ifixit_zh_all_2024-06.zim
├── matrix67.com_zh_blog_2025-11.zim
├── phet_mul_all_2025-06.zim
├── ted_mul_ai_2025-10.zim
├── ted_mul_blockchain_2025-10.zim
├── ted_mul_tech_2025-10.zim
├── wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2025-10.zim
├── wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2025-10.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2025-09.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_basketball_maxi_2025-07.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_chemistry_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_computer_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_football_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_geography_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_history_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_mathematics_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_medicine_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_molcell_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_movies_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_physics_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikipedia_zh_top_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikiquote_zh_all_maxi_2025-12.zim
├── wikisource_zh_all_maxi_2025-09.zim
├── wikiversity_zh_all_maxi_2026-01.zim
├── wikivoyage_zh_all_maxi_2025-12.zim
└── wiktionary_zh_all_nopic_2025-04.zim
Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115899135117601234
On the other hand.
"Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary."
https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7
Spider season started early on the Olympic Peninsula this year. Walking into webs every which way I go isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I do love the opportunity to photograph some cool arachnids. This particular spider is Callobius severus. My partner saved her from drowning, and I captured a bazillion photos while she recovered in the sun.
@nature @photography
#Cascadia #PNW #Nature #Animals #Arthropods #Arachnids #Spiders #Photography #Wikipedia
Fellow fedizens! As decreed by https://xkcd.com/843/ some fifteen years ago, it is once again time to spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions.
The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.
Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and volunteers
A solidarity initiative is now underway across Wikimedia projects.
Read more & consider supporting:
I'm not happy about writing this, but too many people I care about are hurting, and it's preventable. https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 #Wikipedia
#lisp #commonLisp I would say the lisp #wikipedia page has been vandalised to not mention ANSI standardisation until the last paragraph of the history subheading. #ANSI
Then, halfway through there is a one-line section:
Standardized dialects [edit]
Lisp has officially standardized dialects: R6RS Scheme, R7RS Scheme, IEEE Scheme,[60] ANSI Common Lisp and ISO ISLISP.
This is a significant departure from the former page. Also, calling it now sloppy sloppy sloppy slop
I recently posted about archive.today (also archive.is, archive.ph, archive.fo, archive.li, archive.md, and archive.vn) using its archive links to launch a ddos attack against a blogger they accused of doxing them: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116028203974257264
That attack triggered #Wikipedia (at least, the English part) to discuss banning archive.today links, and the ensuing discussion turned up evidence that (as part of the same dispute with the same blogger) archive.today had also tampered with its archived content to falsify certain names in old archived links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence_of_altering_snapshots
This led to a quick close of the discussion and a consensus to remove all archive.today links from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance
For the same reasons I have removed all archive.today links from my blog, where I had been occasionally using them as a convenient way to access paywalled content. I suggest that others remove their links as well, lest you unwittingly become part of additional ddos attacks and falsification.
Alright if I manage to pull things together at the last minute we will be having the wonderful #gopher @someodd (and anyone else who turns up) on the #lispyGopherClimate #archive
https://toobnix.org/w/qsdEN2Z85VGYnkESV1xQph
Remember to subscribe via #rss for the recent archives ( subscribe > RSS ) https://toobnix.org/a/screwtape/video-channels .
- The #wikipedia scandal(s) and the #climate
- gopher://gopher.someodd.zip
- @jackdaniel 's excellent #hextille link and why mine is nothing like it
#lambdaMOO as always please ! <3
Do you use #Wikipedia, #Wiktionary, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikidata, or other #Wikimedia resources? The #WikimediaFoundation has just disbanded an entire team of staff who work closely with volunteer contributors, coincidentally while some of those same staff have been working to form a union. Volunteers from various projects are planning collective action in solidarity with the workers. On the English-language Wikipedia, this action might include an editorial strike (no new content) or making the wiki read-only. #union #solidarity
Happy Brooke Vibber day!
Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.
https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/interview-with-brooke-vibber-2021.html
Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!
A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.
“…Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest…” Mon Mothma, Andor (2025)
The speech was written by Dan Gilroy
#lispyGopherClimate low fi episode today !
https://toobnix.org/w/mWZ4yU9zdbYTZiCJftNAtV PREMIUM EXTENDED ARCHIVE
Subscribe via #RSS please : https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
Are the #climateCrisis devastating datacentres the fault of #LLMs or just evil economics business as usual.
Then, @kentpitman is scanning a bunch of lisp historically significant paper documents into the public record - *should* measurably impact the #wikipedia page on #lisp , right!
Maybe some stuff on #IDE s apropos my https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim
📰 "Tłumaczenia AI dodają „halucynacje” do artykułów Wikipedii
Artykuły przetłumaczone przez sztuczną inteligencję zamieniały źródła - lub dodawały zdania bez podania źródła - bez żadnego wyjaśnienia, podczas gdy inne dodawały akapity pochodzące z zupełnie niepowiązanych materiałów."
Całość [EN]:
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
P.S. Fajne "narzędzia"
New Wikipedia article on the 1971 Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover ✅
At midnight on January 1, 1971, over 100 women occupied 330 East Fifth Street, a derelict building in Manhattan that had previously been a welfare office. A coalition of 40 feminist groups had asked city officials if they could start a women's center in an abandoned government property. When it became clear the city wasn't interested in giving women the resources they needed, they decided to make them.
They occupied the building for 13 days, establishing a food co-op, daycare, medical clinic, and lesbian center. Women gave and received practical demonstrations in carpentry, plumbing, first aid, karate, and art. The group operated non-hierarchically, with women rotating shifts as guards, facilitators, and coordinators.
City officials were initially open to negotiating with the feminists, but abruptly changed course after the organizers refused to give the welfare office information about women who came to Fifth Street to receive services. The police shut down the women's building a few days later. 24 women were arrested, but most of their charges were dropped because they turned their backs to cameras and came to court wearing makeup, high heels, and coiffed hair. The police didn't recognize their alleged attackers. 330 East Fifth Street was demolished and turned into a police parking lot. (Truly you cannot make this shit up.)
#Wikipedia #Feminism #History #WomensHistory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Street_Women%27s_Building_Takeover?wprov=sfla1
C'est juin, c'est le mois des fiertés et c'est #WikiLovesPride avec @wmlgbt ! 🏳️🌈
Rejoignez-nous en France, en Suisse et en ligne pour éditer @wikipedia_fr (et d'autres projets de la galaxie) et y réduire le biais de genre.
Détails et inscriptions : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Calendrier
Avec notamment @ledeuxiemetexte @WikimediaCH @Fuzzyraptor @Wikimedia_Fr
🧭 The course has been set for the future.
Wikimedia CH has published its annual report for 2025. Against the backdrop of rapid technological change, and in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia and the 20h anniversary of Wikimedia CH in 2026, we have solidified our foundations and prepared for the future.
Read the report at https://impact.wikimedia.ch
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
RE: https://bots.ambience.sk/@wikipediatoday/8f01c0cc-64d5-43cf-8fe5-385d3dd957fe
How about a featured daily image from #Wikipedia in your feed to make it nicer?
#wikimedia #commons #openSource #opendata #featured #daily #today #til #fediverse #tip #tips #activityPub #mastodon #bot #photo #photography
Le programme d'avril est un peu plus léger que celui de mars mais on espère vous voir nombreux•ses pour éditer @wikipedia_fr ! (Novices bienvenu•e•s !)
Avec notamment @Wikimedia_Fr @WikimediaCH
