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Calishat

“Protest” as a Wikipedia Topic for Public Interest

After the protests this weekend, I wondered if there had been a surge in public interest in the general Wikipedia topic of "protest." So I plugged it into Wikipedia Seismograph to find out. Oh yes, there absolutely was. This also gave me a chance to test Wikipedia Attention Surfer to see what other topics were "vibing" with Protest, in terms of similar public interest.

calishat.com/2025/04/07/protes

#protests#activism#Wikipedia
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

@futurebird

I believe you and that poster are mistaken here, #Wikipedia is not countering that "infiltration" at all. On the contrary, the project page says, loud and clear:

»The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise. «

So they're actually welcoming "#AI" and believe they can moderate it's BS output away – in addition to their existing workload.

This is unfortunate, to say the least.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup - Wikipedia
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OpenSexism

"we must consider the networks of links and hyperlinks between articles that affect the visibility of biographies. Specifically, if women’s articles are poorly connected to other articles, they become more challenging to find. It is essential to clarify that creating links is a complex skill that involves identifying related pages and adding hyperlinks to them, which has significant implications for information retrieval and visibility on the Web."
#wikipedia

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OpenSexism

"Epistemic violence remains pervasive in much of the moderated content online, yet its extent is challenging to measure. This paper introduces a novel approach to address this gap by proposing an Epistemic Violence Index applied to #Wikipedia biographies of Latin American women scientists and writers...constructing a graph representation of the Wikipedia network connections for leading female figures in science and literature from the 19th and 20th centuries"

ceur-ws.org/Vol-3946/DARLI-AP-

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Stefan Bohacek

65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
#wikimedia#wikipedia#AI
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Wunderlust Lass

#MusicWomenWednesday

A personal favourite.

Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician based in Berlin.
Obel debuted as a solo singer with her first album Philharmonics (2010). She wrote, played, sang, recorded, and produced all the material herself. [source: #wikipedia ]

The following song is from her 3rd album, 'Aventine'.

Agnes Obel - 'Fuel to Fire'

youtube.com/watch?v=hqZGvkF00DI

YouTubeAgnes Obel - Fuel To Fire (Official Video)By Agnes Obel
#Music
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Johanna Janhonen

Olen kyllä tiennyt, että Wikipedia on tekoälylle tärkeä tiedonlähde, mutten ole ajatellut sitä, että Wikimedia joutuu maksamaan tiedonhaun alati kasvavat kustannukset. Wikimedia on tehty ihmisille, ei boteille ja meidän pitäisi itse saada päättää mihin vapaaehtoisilta kerätyt varat käytetään, yhteisön kehittämiseen vai tekoälyfirmojen rahoittamiseen.

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
#wikipedia#wikimedia#tekoäly
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rhrwllnrtr :mastodon:

Über die Wunder der #Wikipedia kann ein Mensch ja oft auch nur staunen. Kaum hat Senator #CoryBooker die 20ste Stunde seiner Marathon-Rede, die technisch kein #Filibuster ist (habe ich auch gerade erst gelernt), erreicht, gibt es schon eine eigene Seite für diese, in jeder Hinsicht, bemerkenswerte politische Performance.

Lesenswert, weil sie historische & aktuelle Referenzen enthält: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Boo

en.wikipedia.orgCory Booker's marathon speech - Wikipedia
#Senate#USSenate#IDontWantToGoHome
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internetarchive

Last week in Leiden, Brewster Kahle was presented with the 2024 ProjectUil by the Dutch Wikipedia community. He explained how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has helped fix millions of broken links, ensuring citations on Wikipedia remain valid and accessible across multiple language editions.

🔗 veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia

Brewster Kahle giving a lecture on the Internet Archive and copyright, March 18, 2025
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