🥳 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.
wikipedia
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/
📚 Dia do Domínio Público 2026 | Torre do Tombo
Explora como a Wikipédia e o Wikidata podem promover autores locais que entram em domínio público.
Sessões práticas + apoio individual. Evento híbrido. 💻
👉 Inscrições: https://w.wiki/HbzS
#DominioPublico #WikimediaPortugal #Wikipédia #Wikidata #ConhecimentoLivre
In today's story on @medium, I share biographies and photos of #nonbinary people that I've contributed to #Wikipedia, in honor of International Non-Binary People's Day.
cc @wmlgbt
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."
I've been reading more #Wikipedia articles on #autism-related topics. I'm currently in the middle of the article on "Theory of mind". I've criticized the "theory of mind deficit" theory before, as both misleading and demeaning. But I was still unprepared for one revelation from the Wiki: the "theory of mind deficit" theory wasn't even developed as a way of understanding #autistics. It was introduced by Premack and Woodruff as a way of understanding CHIMPANZEES, and adapted by Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith to apply to us! Apparently it didn't occur to them that it might be problematic to use the term "theory" so broadly as to refer to any mental structure used to comprehend other minds — however lacking it might be in the explicitness and logical structure implied by that term. Or that it might be MORE problematic to do so in reference to autistics than in reference to chimpanzees. Thus it was that the science of autism lent credibility to a confusion between our comparative lack of INTUITIVE understanding of other minds, and our supposed inability even to understand the CONCEPT of other minds.
Premack D, Woodruff G (December 1978). "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1 (4): 515–526. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00076512.
Baron-Cohen S, Leslie AM, Frith U (October 1985). "Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"?" (PDF). Cognition. 21 (1): 37–46. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8. PMID 2934210. S2CID 14955234. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2017.
#AI hallucination in #wikipedia is disheartening. This topped a search result (startpage). I at once knew it is false for I've never heard of "Basimba community". It mixes it up with an actual people, the Ngo (leopard) clan of Buganda. Proof of hallucination? It claims to be a Ugandan community but mentions places in Angola, and Portuguese (who never came anywhere close). I've seen other wiki articles of this thing, and also in grok vomit.
Can anyone fix it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basimba_people
#Wikipedia needs you
“Everything about Wikipedia is a worship of expertise,” aid its co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with Nature.
That’s the part of the approach that makes it so valuable — and one of the reasons why researchers should take the time to get involved.
As the web gets ever more polarized and swamped with untrustworthy content, "editors who are fair and civil, and who know how to weigh up evidence, are sorely needed.”
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/
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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
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Spannend für die Forschung, interessant für die Bibliotheken:
Macht alle mit beim Ausbau dieses neuen #Wikipedia -Artikels, der einen guten Überblick gibt, wo welche #Comics gesammelt werden & teilt ihn in euren Netzwerken:
Öffentliche #Comicsammlungen in D.: https://blog.fid-romanistik.de/2026/03/11/neuer-wikipedia-artikel-oeffentliche-comicsammlungen-in-deutschland/
🌈📣 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
I signed this petition and if you’re a Wikipedia editor you probably should too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
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.
What is Wikipedia doing...
...on my contacts list 
@memes
#wikipedia #memes #contacts
NGOs call for immediate release of Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year sentence was upheld
#Prisoners #HumanRights #Wikipedia #FreeOsamaKhalid #OsamaKhalid
For any #Wikipedia editors out there who also know something about Internet routing ... earlier this week I significantly updated the "RouteViews" article after discovering to my immense surprise that it was a very short and small article that didn't say much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_Views
I would appreciate any other eyeballs on it (and welcome any improvements).
Also, see the Talk page for my notes about adding a logo!
(It's been a while and I don't remember the exact process. 🤦♂️)
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
One thing I thought #LLMs were good for was translation. Apparently #Gemini and others aren’t that great at that either.
#Wikipedia restricted contributors from a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association (#OKA) after editors discovered #AI-assisted translations added factual errors and incorrect citations.
As predicted, humans will be relegated to cleaning up the mess LLMs leave behind, for salaries far below the value of full-time employment to do the job properly.
[…] Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer‑review mechanisms.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
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
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