akolbe

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by akolbe 3y ago
Aye, you put your finger on something there. Reminds me of how common it is for menial jobs to be outsourced to immigrants or seasonal labour. Fruit picking in the UK to Eastern Europeans, agricultural work in Israel to Thais, etc. Someone
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Until Plagiarism Happens to You(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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How paid Wikipedia editors squeeze you dry(en.wikipedia.org)
197 points by akolbe 3y ago|98 comments
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Croatian Wikipedia takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness"(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by akolbe 3y ago|15 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Wikipedia actually has a (most likely very incomplete) list of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_...
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by akolbe 3y ago
It's hard to say what exactly caused his persecution. He did upload a few pictures of human rights activists to Wikimedia Commons, almost a decade prior.
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Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by akolbe 3y ago|3 comments
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Animal sounds in most nature documentaries are made by humans(phys.org)
3 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Plantwatch: The organism so tough it can survive in space(theguardian.com)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities(newswise.com)
10 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Public Domain Day 2024(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Arabic Wikipedia Blackout(en.wikipedia.org)
42 points by akolbe 3y ago|21 comments
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Did Chinese Communist Party astroturfers sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia page?(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia Russia set to dissolve(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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"LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Liquidation of Wikimedia Russia(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Essay: I am going to die (on Wikipedia demographcis)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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"Wikipedia and the Assault on History"(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Update on Wikimedia's Financial Health(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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How Social Capital Affects Dispute Arbitration on Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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Wikimedia Foundation publishes audit report for FY2022–2023(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia Admin Drama(threadreaderapp.com)
5 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades(en.wikipedia.org)
118 points by akolbe 3y ago|199 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
The admin in question had previously been the subject of a Newsweek article: "Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School" https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/manipulating-wikipedia-p..
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Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015(en.wikipedia.org)
175 points by akolbe 3y ago|127 comments
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Where have all the Wikipedia administrators gone?(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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This Fluffy Little Anteater May Be a New Species(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
One way driverless cars might help is that they reduce the amount of land that has to be given over to carparks, especially in the US. Where towns in Europe would build a multi-story carpark to serve a shopping mall, municipalities in North
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The science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life(undark.org)
82 points by akolbe 3y ago|40 comments

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