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Big context shift for me was realising roughly 2019 that Portal:Current events could efficiently replace 95% of my news scrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

by lainga 2y ago

Big context shift for me was realising roughly 2019 that Portal:Current events could efficiently replace 95% of my news scrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

vraylle 2y ago
I had no idea this existed. Me likey. Now if I can just get this as an RSS feed....
- wizardwes 2y ago
  Same here. Let me know if you find a good solution
  - pulpfictional 2y ago
    https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/
  - lainga 2y ago
    Here's as close as I got with a bit of fiddling. You may or may not be able to winnow out minor changes using the inverttags parameter [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=2&days=7&target=Category%3A2024_by_day&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=rss https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza... [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedrecentchanges https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedr...
- pulpfictional 2y ago
  https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/
bmitc 2y ago
Interesting. Although I have a growing concern about how much of my knowledge base is informed or misinformed by Wikipedia.
int_19h 2y ago
Some other useful things in this department: https://thenewpaper.co https://thenewpaper.co - sends you a daily text message with a short, concise daily news report that is sufficient to be aware of anything major. https://www.boringreport.org https://www.boringreport.org - aggregates news stories on a particular subject from various outlets and produces AI-generated summaries of them with all the clickbaity headlines and other forms of button-pushing removed.
grotorea 2y ago
That only covers global news though.
mikhailfranco 2y ago
Be careful, Katherine Maher (NPR CEO) was CCO/CEO of Wikimedia Foundation 2014-2021. She then gave a TED Talk that contains some slippery equivocations about truth, includes the inevitable climate-change jibe, and states the contradiction: "we all have different truths" (she uses the phrase 'personal truth' instead of 'subjective opinion' )... https://singjupost.com/what-wikipedia-teaches-us-about-balancing-truth-and-beliefs-katherine-maher-transcript/?singlepage=1 https://singjupost.com/what-wikipedia-teaches-us-about-balan...

by lainga 2y ago

vraylle 2y ago

I had no idea this existed. Me likey. Now if I can just get this as an RSS feed....

wizardwes 2y ago
Same here. Let me know if you find a good solution
- pulpfictional 2y ago
  https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/
- lainga 2y ago
  Here's as close as I got with a bit of fiddling. You may or may not be able to winnow out minor changes using the inverttags parameter [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=2&days=7&target=Category%3A2024_by_day&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=rss https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza... [] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedrecentchanges https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedr...
pulpfictional 2y ago
https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/

bmitc 2y ago

Interesting. Although I have a growing concern about how much of my knowledge base is informed or misinformed by Wikipedia.

int_19h 2y ago

Some other useful things in this department: https://thenewpaper.co https://thenewpaper.co - sends you a daily text message with a short, concise daily news report that is sufficient to be aware of anything major. https://www.boringreport.org https://www.boringreport.org - aggregates news stories on a particular subject from various outlets and produces AI-generated summaries of them with all the clickbaity headlines and other forms of button-pushing removed.

grotorea 2y ago

That only covers global news though.

mikhailfranco 2y ago

Be careful, Katherine Maher (NPR CEO) was CCO/CEO of Wikimedia Foundation 2014-2021. She then gave a TED Talk that contains some slippery equivocations about truth, includes the inevitable climate-change jibe, and states the contradiction: "we all have different truths" (she uses the phrase 'personal truth' instead of 'subjective opinion' )... https://singjupost.com/what-wikipedia-teaches-us-about-balancing-truth-and-beliefs-katherine-maher-transcript/?singlepage=1 https://singjupost.com/what-wikipedia-teaches-us-about-balan...