Today's wikipedia article is Crazy Frog

Today's wikipedia article is Crazy Frog
@bobidle P.s.: Ha, moment. Ich trage ziemlich häufig zu #OpenStreetMap und #Wikipedia bei. Nicht *direkt* Open Source, aber nah genug dran, schätze ich mal, um hier zu gelten. :)
24 Jahre Wikipedia – ein Meilenstein für Freies Wissen!
Seit 24 Jahren ermöglichen Ehrenamtliche freien Zugang zu Wissen – gemeinschaftlich & kostenlos. Die deutschsprachige Wikipedia startete nur einen Tag nach der Ankündigung neuer Sprachversionen und ist heute mit fast 3 Mio. Artikeln die zweitgrößte weltweit.
Ein riesiges Dankeschön an alle, die Wikipedia mitgestalten!
Voice of America fermerait. Wikimedia Commons perd une source de documents dans le domaine public. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_VOA #VOA #WikiCommons #Wikipedia
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.
It also is a native clematis, unlike the invasive stuff around Wellington, Old Man's Beard.
Une grande partie de ma collection d'ouvrages sur #Wikipedia dans 13 langues. https://inventaire.io/users/pyb
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 #Wikipedia articles. Is anyone doing that yet?
https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/114167314994107129
Today's wikipedia article is Jeff Award
@remixtures >They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation.
Projects like #wikipedia (and the broader #wikimedia ecosystem, like the Commons and #wikidata), along with #OpenStreetMap #osm, probably have to spend millions annually dealing with AI content scrapers.
"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.
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.)
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.
Instead, we must ensure that mechanisms are in place to force AI companies to engage with these repositories on their creators' terms."
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Grouping Concepts Temporally Instead of Topically, Using Wikipedia Data
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Stolpersteine goes Wikidata
Es gibt ein neues Projekt 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.
In meinem Wohnort wurden gerade erst im letzten Monat vier Stolpersteine verlegt. Vielleicht kann ich das Projekt mit Bildern und Daten unterstützen.