Wikipedia lanza un conjunto de datos para entrenar la inteligencia artificial https://blog.elhacker.net/2025/04/wikipedia-dataset-ia-stop-scraping.html #inteligenciaartificial #wikipedia #scraping #robots
According to #Wikipedia, the #TarrSteps are form of construction called a #ClapperBridge and were originally built in #Medieval times but these are not the original stones as they have been damages and swept away several times in their history during storms and rebuilt, luckily in the same manner.
¿Están bien documentadas las realidades #nobinarias y #trans en general en la #Wikipedia? Queremos que haya más información actualizada y accesible y por eso estamos organizando este taller: el primer día empezaremos a aprender a editar y el segundo hablaremos de cómo organizarnos para ser más eficientes en esta tarea. ¿Te apuntas? Es aquí: https://us6.list-manage.com/survey?u=8d067b9a027baf872b370d719&id=fcd5bc59be
- managed to correct a #Wikipedia article this morning
- a colleague asked me, if I will still go for a dog walk today (implying he would like to join me) and we went for a walk together
- received multiple praise for things I had done/facilitated/pushed at work
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings
Tenemos una nueva línea de acción chulísima: colaborar para que haya más y mejor información sobre realidades trans y no binarias en #Wikipedia. Con la ayuda de @mentux, ya tenemos dos citas previstas.
¿Quién se apunta? Info e inscripción aquí: https://us6.list-manage.com/survey?u=8d067b9a027baf872b370d719&id=fcd5bc59be
He visto una fecha que está mal en wikipedia en español y tengo una fuente que confirma que la fecha que pone en wikipedia en inglés es correcta, y no la españila.
¿Como puedo proponer ese cambio? ¿Tengo que editar yo directamente la página y después se acepta? Sería mi primera aportación. #Ayuda #wikipedia
EDIT: Ya lo he podido cambiar gracias a todos ^^
Torine Torines #Swedish #mechanic called "The only female mechanic in Scandinavia" & "Doctor of Sewing machines". Introduced to #Sweden in 1850s sewing machines were so popular she built successful business & spent 45 yrs repairing them b. #OTD 11 Apr 1876 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torine_Torines
@CarveHerName @histodons #Wikipedia
Wondering #WHY there is no article about #US airman #AaronBushnell on #German - #Wikipedia? What's the secret that people in #Deutschland must not know?
Want to know more about the finalists in WLM 2024? The blog about the international winners is live on Diff now.
The complete jury report will be shared through Wikimedia Commons after we have announced the winners in the special prize categories on April 18th.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/08/redemption-the-winners-of-wiki-loves-monuments-2024/
#Wikipedia #Monument #WLM #WikiLovesMonuments #WikimediaCommons #Wikimedia #Photography
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
List of same-sex married couples
* None
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_same-sex_married_couples
I think the same problem with representation among #Wikipedia entries is pervasive among #FOSS projects as well - including the #Fediverse :
Contributions are done by those who have sufficient free time to work on such projects, which usually means having a stable, comfortable existence. Thus, the majority of contrirbutors tend to be white men - and they bring their own biases with them.
This is a problem - while the concept of the Fediverse is great, our user base is not very diverse. #Twitter in the old days blew the Fediverse out if the water, in this regard at least.
We need to include a lot more different people for the development of the Fediverse, from all over the world, instread of the crowd if largely white Europeans and North Americans we have now. Yet how can we include them, if the expectation is that the contributors should work for free - something much harder to do if you _don't_ have a stable source of income and a job that gives you sufficient free time?
12th Place International WLM 2024 
Henningsvær
Henningsvær, Norway
Giladtop (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://w.wiki/DUUg
The wide perspective and the contrast between the frozen islands and the sea illustrate very well the human settlements and the natural site.
I didn't start any new #wikipedia articles in the past week--but I have "destubbed" fifteen biographical articles about women, for the European Destubathon, happening all this month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Europe/The_European_Destubathon Destubbing is a great way to improve wikipedia, because the articles are already in place, so you can skip the setting up part and get right to the fun. (Well, it's fun for me. YMMV) Good to do while I'm waiting for my @_newspapers access to be restored, it lapsed this weekend.
#LGBTQ #SimpleEnglish #Wikipedia deletion alert
Can you save this LGBTQ #simple #English Wikipedia page from deletion?
Jewish National Front (simple)
Jewish National Front (en)
* The
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Front
Discussion: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2025/Jewish_National_Front
Steile These zum Wochenede:
"Die #Wikipedia-Oberfläche muss so bleiben, wie ich sie kenne! Dass die alte für Neulinge unübersichtlich, weniger barrierefrei und technisch veraltet ist, ist mir egal!"
"Mein Alltag muss so bleiben, wie ich ihn kenne! Dass meine Lebensweise dazu beiträgt, dass das gesamte Ökosystem zusammenbrechen könnte, ist mir egal!"
Same vibe. Neu ist böse. Alt ist gut. Es darf sich nichts verändern.
Und besonders in Deutschland ist diese Einstellung unheimlich verbreitet.
"The load on our infrastructure is not sustainable and puts human access to knowledge at risk. We need to act now to re-establish a healthy balance."
AI scraper traffic is threatening #Wikipedia's sustainability on multiple fronts:
https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/
Après la tornade du mois de mars, nos activités du mois d'avril seront un peu moins nombreuses. Inscrivez-vous et rejoignez-nous, c'est gratuit et vous découvrirez une formidable communauté pour vous accompagner dans la réduction du biais de genre sur @wikipedia_fr !
Avec Librairie Violette and Co , Médiathèque Marguerite Yourcenar , Photo Elysée , @ledeuxiemetexte , @Wikimedia_Fr , @WikimediaCH
Toutes les infos sur : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Calendrier
#Wikipedia #BiaisDeGenre #Féminisme
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
https://www.engadget.com/ai/wikipedia-is-struggling-with-voracious-ai-bot-crawlers-121546854.html
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."
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
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