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DailyWikipedia<p>Today's wikipedia article is Crazy Frog</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Fr</span><span class="invisible">og</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.isometry.group/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a></p>
wikimediaDE<p>🎉 24 Jahre Wikipedia – ein Meilenstein für Freies Wissen! 🎂</p><p>Seit 24 Jahren ermöglichen Ehrenamtliche freien Zugang zu Wissen – gemeinschaftlich &amp; kostenlos. 🌍📚 Die deutschsprachige Wikipedia startete nur einen Tag nach der Ankündigung neuer Sprachversionen und ist heute mit fast 3 Mio. Artikeln die zweitgrößte weltweit.</p><p>Ein riesiges Dankeschön an alle, die Wikipedia mitgestalten! 💛</p><p><a href="https://social.wikimedia.de/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.wikimedia.de/tags/24Jahre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>24Jahre</span></a> <a href="https://social.wikimedia.de/tags/FreiesWissen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreiesWissen</span></a></p>
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin<p>Voice of America fermerait. Wikimedia Commons perd une source de documents dans le domaine public. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_VOA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat</span><span class="invisible">egory:PD_VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WikiCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiCommons</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Richard Littauer<p>Today's Wikipedia page is a lovely flower that I really like to see in the wild, pikiarero or Forster's Clematis. It's long creamy flowers always make me feel peaceful and soft. It reminds me of French Vanilla yogurt, which I always loved.</p><p>It also is a native clematis, unlike the invasive stuff around Wellington, Old Man's Beard.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clematis_forsteri" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clematis</span><span class="invisible">_forsteri</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aotearoa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newzealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newzealand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a></p>
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin<p>Une grande partie de ma collection d'ouvrages sur <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> dans 13 langues. <a href="https://inventaire.io/users/pyb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">inventaire.io/users/pyb</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Luis Villa<p>It’d be interesting to do an audit of all the deleted American government pages and see which of them can/should/don’t have <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> articles. Is anyone doing that yet?<br><a href="https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/114167314994107129" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">glammr.us/@jessamyn/1141673149</span><span class="invisible">94107129</span></a></p>
DailyWikipedia<p>Today's wikipedia article is Jeff Award</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Award" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Awa</span><span class="invisible">rd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.isometry.group/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a></p>
Preston Maness ☭<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>remixtures</span></a></span> &gt;They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation.</p><p>Projects like <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> (and the broader <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikimedia</span></a> ecosystem, like the Commons and <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikidata</span></a>), along with <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a>, probably have to spend millions annually dealing with AI content scrapers.</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward (freely licensed or otherwise). They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation. They reduce the visibility of the original sources, leaving people unaware that they can or should contribute towards maintaining such valuable projects. AI companies should want a thriving open access ecosystem, ensuring that the models they trained on Wikipedia in 2020 can be continually expanded and updated. Even if AI companies don’t care about the benefit to the common good, it shouldn’t be hard for them to understand that by bleeding these projects dry, they are destroying their own food supply.</p><p>And yet many AI companies seem to give very little thought to this, seemingly looking only at the months in front of them rather than operating on years-long timescales. (Though perhaps anyone who has observed AI companies’ activities more generally will be unsurprised to see that they do not act as though they believe their businesses will be sustainable on the order of years.)</p><p>It would be very wise for these companies to immediately begin prioritizing the ongoing health of the commons, so that they do not wind up strangling their golden goose. It would also be very wise for the rest of us to not rely on AI companies to suddenly, miraculously come to their senses or develop a conscience en masse.</p><p>Instead, we must ensure that mechanisms are in place to force AI companies to engage with these repositories on their creators' terms."</p><p><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citationneeded.news/free-and-o</span><span class="invisible">pen-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FairUse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairUse</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a></p>
Calishat<p>Grouping Concepts Temporally Instead of Topically, Using Wikipedia&nbsp;Data</p><p>There's been so much talk about "vibes" in programming lately that it gave me an idea for a Wikipedia tool. If you accept the idea that Wikipedia page view data can be used as "fossilized attention" (indicators of public interest in a topic) then you can use information extracted from page view data -- like derivation from average views (z-score) -- as a benchmark of public interest.</p><p><a href="https://www.calishat.com/2025/03/14/grouping-concepts-temporally-instead-of-topically-using-wikipedia-data/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">calishat.com/2025/03/14/groupi</span><span class="invisible">ng-concepts-temporally-instead-of-topically-using-wikipedia-data/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>The future of free and open access isn't about saying “wait, not like that” — it’s about saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>It would be wise for these companies to begin prioritizing the ongoing health of the commons. It would also be wise for the rest of us to not rely on AI companies to come to their senses or develop a conscience en masse, and instead force them to engage on creators’ terms.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. By operating in this purely extractive way, they destroy the things that underpin their businesses.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>Instead of worrying about “wait, not like that”, I think we need to reframe the conversation to “wait, not only like that” or “wait, not in ways that threaten open access itself”.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>But if we want to create a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge, we should stop attempting to wall off the commons.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>The impulse is often to tighten the licenses, or stop publishing under free licenses (if at all). But this threatens to destroy the very commons we set out to build.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>The free and open access vision is inspiring, but there are instances in which people who freely license their work go “wait, no, not like that”. People reselling their free works, tech companies profiting off their FOSS code, and AI companies training on their material.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Molly White<p>Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.</p><p><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citationneeded.news/free-and-o</span><span class="invisible">pen-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
VeGaNGoTH<p><strong>Stolpersteine goes Wikidata</strong></p><p>Es gibt ein neues <a href="https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/03/05/digitale-stolpersteine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Projekt</a> der Wiki-Community, „Stolpersteine goes Wikidata“. Dadurch sollen alle Informationen zu den Personen und den Verlege-Orten der Gedenksteine für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus digital verfügbar werden.</p><p>In meinem Wohnort wurden gerade erst im letzten Monat vier Stolpersteine verlegt. Vielleicht kann ich das Projekt mit Bildern und Daten unterstützen.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://vgngth.de/tag/stolpersteine/" target="_blank">#Stolpersteine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://vgngth.de/tag/wikidata/" target="_blank">#Wikidata</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://vgngth.de/tag/wikimedia/" target="_blank">#Wikimedia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://vgngth.de/tag/wikipedia/" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a></p>
Joanny Maire<p>Wikimedia rejette les mises en demeure du Point qui contiennent «&nbsp;de graves erreurs&nbsp;» </p><p>Par Martin Clavey<br>Publié le 14/03/2025</p><p>L'hebdomadaire le Point a envoyé deux mises en demeure à la Fondation Wikimedia demandant entre autres de supprimer deux sections de l'article de l'encyclopédie qui lui est consacré. Il accuse aussi de diffamation la lettre ouverte publiée par des bénévoles dénonçant les pressions subies par l'un de leurs membres. …</p><p><a href="https://next.ink/175084/wikimedia-rejette-les-mises-en-demeure-du-point-qui-contiennent-de-graves-erreurs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">next.ink/175084/wikimedia-reje</span><span class="invisible">tte-les-mises-en-demeure-du-point-qui-contiennent-de-graves-erreurs/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikimedia</span></a></p>
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