@mediawiki

Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is so important I find it hard to express.

It is the first big step of integration between the Wikipedian and Fediverse communities, and it has been massively under-noticed and not gotten nearly the attention this deserved.

I'm all for it, want to find ways to help & hope this is the beginning of much more integration to come. 🔥

@fediversenews

Quizá la MAYOR MANIPULACIÓN DE LA #HISTORIA (la #Wikipedia cuenta, sin reconciliación/síntesis, dos versiones):
HOLODOMOR (1932 - 33)
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
(la gran hambruna en #Ucrania 🇺🇦 que mató a 6 (?) millones; un hecho FUNDANTE de la "nazión" ucraniana )

...ahora llega a los LIBROS DE TEXTO de #Canadá [ #educación] solo con la versión occidental.
https://telegra.ph/The-myth-of-the-Holodomor-07-21
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My daughter snagged this screenshot before it changed. Enjoy

#kissinger #wikipedia #hell #henrykissinger

#The-Beatles are all over the media at the moment with Now and Then. Here's one of my favorite Beatles songs as a #sundaywakeup. ❤

The Beatles - Blackbird (1968)

#TheBeatles ❤ #Beatles #Rock #PoP #Beat #Music #Musik #Musique #YouTube #Video #Wikipedia ☮️

song by John Lennon

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

...y hay un plan a largo plazo para modificar a favor de #Israel
la #WIKIPEDIA :

[EN] https://electronicintifada.net/content/ei-exclusive-pro-israel-groups-plan-rewrite-history-wikipedia/7472

#freepalestine #boycottisrael

EI exclusive: a pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia

A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to …

^{The Electronic Intifada}

This could be useful for #Wikipedia editors looking for papers as reliable sources..

From: @DrPen
https://mastodon.social/@DrPen/111243275125502273

Dr Pen

2023-10-16 06:27:49

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

This is really bad.

Comparing output from ChatGPT with articles from Wikipedia: "participants perceive LLM-generated content as clearer and more engaging while on the other hand they are not identifying any differences with regards to message's competence and trustworthiness."

#llms #llm #chatgpt #wikipedia #trust

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/do-you-trust-chatgpt-perceived-credibility-of

Papers with Code - Do You Trust ChatGPT? -- Perceived Credibility of Human and AI-Generated Content

No code available yet.

^{Franz Rothlauf (paperswithcode.com)}

Según nuestra amada #Wikipedia, Gaghiel es la bestia rugiente de Dios Papi. 🛐 Es el comandante de las aguas y los peces; su dominio es la profundidad y por tanto el #inconsciente y todo aquello que no está a la vista. En Azuka se ve —como en ningún otro personaje— la dualidad de la superficie y la trágica profundidad. No importa cuánto te refugies sobre la punta del icerbeg: Gaghiel emergerá del agua oscura para que lo enfrentes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion#Gaghiel

Wikimedia list article

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Exciting to see how @kiwix, #FreedomBox and #Debian are used to bring #Wikipedia content (and more!) to villages where internet access isn't an option.

(the project is http://swechaap.org/)

#Kiwix #DebConf

Are you ready for the 14th edition of Wiki Loves Monuments yet?!

As we count down to this year's edition, we invite you to visit the WLM 2023 page (http://bitly.ws/Sxy9) for updated information with regards to your organizing and participation.

Looking forward to your amazing clicks that capture the tranquility of the relics!

#WLM #WLM2023
#monuments #photography #Wikipedia

#UnDiaComoHoy nace Jimmy Wales.

Cofundador de @Wikipedia

Fundador de #Nupedia antecesora de #Wikipedia

Presidente emérito de la Fundación Wikimedia.

Fue miembro directivo de Creative Commons (2006).

Recibió el Pioneer Award de la Electronic Frontier Foundation 🏆

#Wikipedia is fighting a #SLAPP suit in Portugal where the appeals court seems so keen to rule for the rich plaintiff that it is filling in the arguments he forgot to make!

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/27/high-stakes-for-the-wikimedia-projects-in-portugal-fighting-a-strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation-slapp/

Esto (vía @Bossito) es importante: un tribunal en #Portugal ordena a #Wikipedia borrar piezas de un artículo sobre una persona relacionada con la extrema derecha y a facilitar los nombres de los editores —la fundación está buscando formas de recurrir

#censura #libertad #noticias https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/27/high-stakes-for-the-wikimedia-projects-in-portugal-fighting-a-strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation-slapp/

Unfortunately we had a small outage this weekend, but this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that you can download entire copies of #Wikipedia and other freely licensed projects for #offline use via #Kiwix!

Check out @kiwix - https://www.kiwix.org and set it up on your smartphone or laptop or boat so you can access free knowledge wherever you go.

📷: The Goodall Family uses Kiwix on their boat while sailing the Pacific (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last month the long-awaited switch to version 4.0 of the @creativecommons license went into effect for #Wikipedia and its sister projects!

Learn how this will enable the reuse of more free content in Wikipedia, simplify attribution requirements and more in a post by the #Wikimedia Foundation legal team:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/29/stepping-into-the-future-wikimedia-projects-transition-to-creative-commons-4-0-license/

#FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

Stepping into the future: Wikimedia projects’ transition to Creative Commons’ 4.0 license

The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the update to our license to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, one of the main changes of our recent Terms of Use update, which brings the…

^Diff

Read how the the Wayuu community, the largest indigenous group in Colombia and Venezuela, is sharing knowledge on #Wikipedia

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/12/bringing-the-wikimedia-experience-to-the-wayuu-community/

"...before these [editors] could participate, they had to overcome various barriers such as: crossing the border from one country to another to participate in the workshops, the lack of computer equipment and locating an internet connection that allows them to access the articles needing to be developed."

Bringing the Wikimedia experience to the wayuu community

Indigenous languages constantly face a process of institutionalized exclusion in a digital world tailored by the most spoken languages of the world. This situation pushes many indigenous population…

^Diff

#UnDiaComoHoy 20 de junio nace la Fundación Wikimedia.

🟢Es una organización sin fines de lucro
🟢Es la organización matriz de #Wikipedia
🟢Su misión es facultar y animar a las personas del mundo a reunir y desarrollar contenido educativo bajo licencias libres o dominio público.

Congrats to our friends at @debian on the successful release of the newest version of the "universal operating system": Debian 12, aka Bookworm

https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230610

#Wikipedia runs on #Debian because of its commitment to stability, security and software freedom. We'll be upgrading to bookworm soon!

This week marks 10 years since Edward #Snowden's global surveillance revelations started, including that the NSA's #XKeyscore program was specifically targeting #Wikipedia users.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a recap of the past decade discussing the things we learned, the privacy battles we all won, and what we're still fighting for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/10-years-after-snowden-some-things-are-better-some-were-still-fighting

It's now possible to mark links to your #Wikipedia user page as verified on Mastodon!

Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe

This was developed and implemented by @taavi who wrote it as a #MediaWiki extension, named "RealMe". It's open source (like all of the Wikipedia software) and can be used on any MediaWiki wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RealMe

From today's #FeaturedArticle on the English #Wikipedia:

The frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) aka frillneck lizard, frill-necked lizard or frilled dragon, is considered to be among the most iconic Australian animals along with the kangaroo and koala.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frilled_lizard

( in 44 other languages: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q501566#sitelinks-wikipedia )

The article was started way back in 2003 but only reached featured status this March largely because of the work done by editor LittleJerry!