#Wikipedia is one of the most important and underrated digital platforms around - every other one should take notes on this. https://www.theverge.com/report/756810/wikipedia-ai-slop-policies-community-speedy-deletion
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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.
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)
Edited 1y ago
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/
Edited 1y ago
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
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/
Don’t forget using employers match if you’re donating to #Wikipedia!
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:
Edited 178d ago
🥳 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.
![Avatar for Sammy [ beep ]](/proxy/identity_icon/415988945147729378/9d9ba36322.jpg){kind=icon}
Someone somewhere is not handling a null value correctly... 
(this is daily pageview data for the Null page on the English Wikipedia)
Edited 176d ago
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/
What a nice surprise to discover ⁂ featured on the #wikipedia article for the #fediverse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
#FediverseSymbol
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
Edited 109d ago
Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!
Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.
We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2gr8866o
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #NetPlurality #ukpol #ukpolitics #wikipedia #freedomofexpression
Edited 97d ago
🌈📣 It’s that time of year!
Wikimedia LGBT+ is launching #WikiLovesPride this June 1st! 💥✍️
Join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ culture and history by editing Wikipedia with pride.
👉 For more info on activities and contests, visit: https://w.wiki/EKCc
#WikiLovesPride #LGBTQ #Pride2025 #Wikipedia
🌈 #WikiLovesPride 2025 is live! 🏳️🌈
Wiki Loves Pride 2025 is a global campaign to expand and improve LGBTQ-related content across all #Wikimedia projects, organized by Wikimedia LGBTQ+.
It takes place throughout the entire month of #June in celebration of the International #LGBTQ #Pride Day.
More Information?
ℹ️ On English #Wikipedia: https://w.wiki/EMF3
ℹ️ On Meta-Wiki: https://w.wiki/ENfB
Downloaded an offline version of #Wikipedia today on my laptop. About 50g compressed, text only.
Tomorrow I will download the full version with photos on the workstation in my office (it has a huge empty HDD going to waste).
Don't take Wikipedia for granted. It may not be there forever and it's the closest thing to a set of encyclopedias today.
ZnatGD 
What is Wikipedia doing...
...on my contacts list 
@memes@lemmy.world
#wikipedia #memes #contacts
The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.
You can download Wikipedia by installing the @kiwix app https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
Then use https://library.kiwix.org/ to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser