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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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)
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)
In this video, I also go into the idea of "verifiability, not truth" — a #Wikipedia philosophy that is controversial both on- and off-wiki.
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/
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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