Have you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.
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Bueno creo que queda poco para que #Wikipedia borre la página traducida del proyecto #Misskey que creé desde la traducción al inglés
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey
La verdad que no me había pasado esto nunca, en fin... a ver si termino la version en html y la subo a mi web (https://nekoprogram.nekoweb.org)
De todas formas he guardado una versión en TheWayBackMachine...
https://web.archive.org/web/20241125135928/https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey
#sns #wiki #wikipedia #thewaybackmachine #nekoprogram #freesoftware #oss #fedi #fediverse
Dear #trans people, #LGBT #Queer #LGBTQIA and allies from the Fediverse, if you have a #Wikipedia account (note: with at least 50 edits in French articles before January 29, sorry), you may help the French Wikipedia to become a better place to read quality articles involving trans people.
Under the pressure of trans and allied contributors (Edit: and NOT at the initiative of T&A contributors), the French Wikipedia moderators opened a survey on "how to handle #deadname mentions in our articles".
The survey proposes 6 questions and multiple possibilities, including harmful and insensitive ones.
At the moment, the answer ratio is not in favour of trans people. Most of the time, people insist on mentioning the deadnames like it's a data like any other, including when unnecessary.
This must change, and here's why I'm making a call to you.
(Edited) The rules to vote are restricted to editors of French contents who were already active before February, so it's actually not possible to vote on behalf of French trans people with no account, BUT you still may vote: they won't be taken into account but they will remain visible on the page.
Action and reskeets may save young trans people from shitty behaviours from careless cis people.
Thank you by advance 🙏🏼
And sorry for the multiple editions
FINAL EDIT I'm probably going to be suspended soon for my outrageous behaviour consisting of : having posted this very toot, and being pissed by the passive-agressive tone and the general stubbornness of a bunch of wiseguys who consider that it's not okay to call for collaboration to the rules of a collaborative online encyclopedia, because, woo, BIAS. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Next episode : My indefinite suspension (in French starting from there)
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Last year, Futurism reported that CNET had been publishing dozens of AI-generated articles that were filled with errors and plagiarism. Wikipedia's editors then kicked off a discussion of CNET content and determined that the Red Ventures-owned site no longer met the requirements for its “generally reliable” rating. Futurism has more: https://flip.it/o-ICMd
#Tech #Technology #Wikipedia #AI
Last month, I mentioned that I wrote @wikipedia articles for five of the #genderqueer and #nonbinary comedians appearing on the #Netflix special, "Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda". In today’s story on @medium, I (finally) write about that special, as well as the #TransDayofVisibility (coming up this Sunday, March 31).
Here’s a friends link to bypass the paywall (click the link, not the image preview):
(cc: @wmlgbt)
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In this video, I also go into the idea of "verifiability, not truth" — a #Wikipedia philosophy that is controversial both on- and off-wiki.
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Upgrading WikiCat Main Characters
Last week I wrote about a new tool I made called WikiCat Main Characters. With WMC, you can search for Wikipedia categories by keyword and then explore the people within those categories to find the "main characters" -- the people whose Wikipedia articles have had the biggest bump in pageviews over the past month. The program also generates date-bounded Google News and Google Web searches...
https://www.calishat.com/2024/07/22/upgrading-wikicat-main-characters/
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The #DCG201 #HackerSummerCamp 2024 Guide for the #freeculture festival #Wikimania in #katowice #Poland is now live:
https://defcon201.medium.com/hacker-summer-camp-2024-guides-part-eleven-wikimania-katowice-b4b6c19b7038
#wikipedia #wikimedia #wikidata #wikifunctions #wiki #academia @wikimediafoundation #wmhack #wmhack2024 #katowice #poland @internetarchive @defcon #fediverse #mastodon #freeculture
I've been wrestling with this site all week and I finally got it doing right. WikiTwister ( https://wikitwister.com/ ) is a set of six tools for exploring #Wikipedia pages and categories. It's free, free of ads, and works best on desktop. A brief tour thread:
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Whoever made that “Wikipedia-as-DNS” system was kind of cooking! Every time I visit a 
site, I already check Wikipedia to make sure the URI hasn’t changed… 
#lang_en #wikipedia #dns
site, I already check Wikipedia to make sure the URI hasn’t changed… #lang_en #wikipedia #dns
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
I just set up monthly donations to #wikipedia, because #SpaceKaren doesn't want me to.
I’ve never donated to #Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
#elonmusk #fascism #censorship
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
Don’t forget using employers match if you’re donating to #Wikipedia!
In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.
That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.
Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista
Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068
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In today’s post on @medium, I describe how the @internetarchive and @wikipedia are preserving a record of the changes made by the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
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🥳 Ukrainian Wikipedia turns 21.
21 years ago a Ukrainian teenager who lived in Japan created [[uk:Атом]],
#Ukrainian #Wikipedia’s first article. Today we have 1,36 million articles –
and counting.
Someone somewhere is not handling a null value correctly... 
(this is daily pageview data for the Null page on the English Wikipedia)
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On Elon Musk and Wikipedia
"Although the site is far from perfect, it remains a place where, unlike much of the internet, facts still matter. That the people who are constantly writing and rewriting Wikipedia entries are disaggregated volunteers—rather than bendable to one man’s ideological views—seems to be in the public interest. The site’s structure is a nuisance for anyone invested in controlling how information is disseminated."
#ElonMusk #wikipedia #theatlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/
PeerTube is fortunate to have a #Wikipedia page in 21 languages, thanks to everyone who contributed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
If you would like to contribute yourself, please feel free to use our list of press content mentioning PeerTube (and Framasoft) as sources, available here:
https://wiki.framasoft.org/speakabout
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Happy to announce my first piece for the #trans publication @assignedmedia.org, which focuses on trans and #nonbinary @wikipedia editors handling the onslaught of #transphobia from the #Trump administration. Includes insights from awesome #Wikipedia editors @tamzin and @TheTranarchist (@yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social). Also shout-out to awesome Wikipedian and crypto critic @molly0xfff who I linked to for an editing tutorial and an interview.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-issues-wikipedia-bulwark-against-disinformation
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Introducing WikiAsteroids, a classic arcade asteroids game powered by real-time #Wikipedia edits! ☄️
Each edit to an article on Wikipedia spawns an asteroid. The larger the edit, the larger the asteroid (and the more shots it takes to destroy). A newly created article spawns an extra life, while a newly registered user spawns a powerup.
This excellent post identifies some huge flaws in a "study" by the MRC which doesn't interrogate why right-wing sources like OANN and Newsmax are deprecated (not banned) as sources on #Wikipedia and ignores right-leaning sources that are considered reliable and are widely used.
https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/right-wing-media-vs-wikipedia-reliability
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What a nice surprise to discover ⁂ featured on the #wikipedia article for the #fediverse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
#FediverseSymbol
