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Glenn Greenwald on Wikipedia's Neutrality(en.wikipedia.org)
14 points by akolbe 3y ago|14 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Related discussion here on Hacker News from last October: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403233
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Wikimedia Foundation gives away about 1 million in grants to counter racial bias(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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Journals Cited by Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Prior Hacker News thread about the Knowledge Equity Fund, which is financed from Wikipedia donations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403233
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The second round of grantees from the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund(diff.wikimedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Actually, the Wikimedia Foundation was not involved. The Signpost is written by unpaid volunteers (like the rest of Wikipedia), not by Wikimedia Foundation staff.
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City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians(en.wikipedia.org)
183 points by akolbe 3y ago|90 comments
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Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
14 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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What Is Happening to the Cats of Cyprus?(nakedcapitalism.com)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
By the same token, any AI can be trained to withhold any truth identified as inconvenient. :/
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Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy(en.wikipedia.org)
233 points by akolbe 3y ago|177 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
One reason why the move was delayed for so long is the sui-generis database rights contained in 4.0. See Jimmy Wales answer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpof5J6jjZ4&t=3738s The solution adopted was to include a
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by akolbe 3y ago
Note that sui-generis database rights are expressly excluded from the WMF version. The Wikimedia terms of use include a specific waiver: "Where you own Sui Generis Database Rights covered by CC BY-SA 4.0, you waive these rights. As a
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by akolbe 3y ago
I agree. I've lost count of the number of times someone from the WMF announces on the Wikimedia mailing list that they're "excited" – often in contexts where it just comes across as obnoxious and narcissistic.
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Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK Launch Open Letter(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Excellent article. When you listen to European politicians and managers speaking English – sometimes for audiences that include few or no native speakers – it becomes quite apparent that the language spoken is understood by listeners and co
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by akolbe 3y ago
Basically, the average distance between one planet and another will always be greater than the distance between the respective planet and the sun. (Note that in the table on the last page, all average planet distances for earth are > 1 A
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by akolbe 3y ago
You are mistaken. The CEO's severance was $623K. Paid from money donated to Wikipedia – unlike the Google executive. I think it is normal and legitimate for donors to Wikipedia – whether they've donated labour or money – to have a
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by akolbe 3y ago
I always think this notion of fairness is perfectly encapsulated by this famous experiment involving Capuchin monkeys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg As that video demonstrates (a Capuchin who was happy to perf
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by akolbe 3y ago
Exactly. With the added irony that the whole Wikimedia system is based on volunteers who do just that: come and work for Wikipedia for no pay. Gosh, they must be so rich !
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by akolbe 3y ago
Relatively few Wikimedia staff are in San Francisco. Nearly half are outside the United States: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_... As for the other side of the equation, revenue, most of th
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by akolbe 3y ago
Okay, I understand, and thanks for explaining. (I first registered an account in 2006.) To what extent do you think it is the Foundation that keeps this culture and mindset going these days? And does more money and higher pay help them to d
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by akolbe 3y ago
Well, the 5% layoff is more than balanced by the 25% increase in headcount (from 570 to 711) that appears to have happened between March 2022 and December 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
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by akolbe 3y ago
Did you really not know that the editors and "moderators" (a term not used on Wikipedia) are unpaid? The Wikimedia Foundation intervenes very rarely in content. Essentially, it only takes action on content if there is a court orde
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Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
There was this post last year on Wikipedia by Victoria Doronina, one of the WMF trustees: "The Board has done its main job - changed the CEO." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village... V
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by akolbe 3y ago
As for the argument that professions like plumbers and electricians who physically visit their customers are not threatened by AI, this is not quite true. For example, utility companies would send someone round to read our meter. Now they w

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