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by akolbe 3y ago
The way people work will certainly change. AI tools can or will soon be able to produce pretty good art, music, texts (both original and translations), etc. I think there will still be people working with these tools (to select, touch up, s
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by akolbe 3y ago
You mean for software features and the like? Some good work has been done there in the background – it's not stuff that readers would notice, but contributors do. It wouldn't be fair to say that all the money has been mis-spent –
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by akolbe 3y ago
18 months' severance. US$623,286 when their last full year's base compensation was $400K. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikim... https://upload.wikimedia.o
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by akolbe 3y ago
The actual Internet hosting costs have consistently been less than $3 million a year: 2022/2021: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikim... 2020/2019: https://
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Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation(en.wikipedia.org)
412 points by akolbe 3y ago|394 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Well, I definitely thought that the $600+K severance for Katherine Maher was too much. It's 150% of her salary. Same for Janeen Uzzell pockeding $300+K in severance after only having been there for two years and a bit. Plus the now-can
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by akolbe 3y ago
Also, $100 million have gone into an "Endowment" that has never to this day, in nearly a decade of existence, published audited accounts. Report in Wikipedia's community newspaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by akolbe 3y ago
Let's not say "hosting costs". Actual hosting costs are less than $3 million a year: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikim... $100 million or so are now spent on sal
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by akolbe 3y ago
According to tax forms just released last week, the outgoing Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher got $623,286 in severance pay in 2021: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikim... She made
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Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
It's that rare thing, a Telegraph article that does not appear to be paywalled. They also have another, surprisingly well balanced and well researched article about Wikipedia today here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tech
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Wikipedia could be taken offline in the UK(telegraph.co.uk)
22 points by akolbe 3y ago|2 comments
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Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks(bbc.co.uk)
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by akolbe 3y ago
Thanks. No idea what happened. At any rate I am unable to edit the URL. :/
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Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by akolbe 3y ago|2 comments
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Contested Truth Claims in Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Disinformation report – Sus socks support suits, seems systemic(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to Review Polish-Jewish History During WWII(slate.com)
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What's Going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?(en.wikipedia.org)
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Does Wikipedia distort coverage of the Holocaust?(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 4y ago|1 comments
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by akolbe 4y ago
This article from Wikipedia's community newspaper, The Signpost, has sparked coverage in several newspapers and news portals: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/over-40-later-banned-... https:/&#x2F
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Why Wikipedia Is So Tough on Bigfoot(slate.com)
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by akolbe 4y ago
Brilliant. Thank you.
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by akolbe 4y ago
Could you name a few prominent Hungarian Wikipedia articles that you feel are problematic? I don't speak Hungarian, but DeepL and Google Translate do a reasonable job and I'd be interested in looking into it. Yes, I'm aware o
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by akolbe 4y ago
Yes, you could argue that the systematic left-wing bias should be a bigger story than the occasional right-wing excess. This said, there are frequent media stories about the left-wing bias as well. A Google search for Wikipedia "lef
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by akolbe 4y ago
I think they were referring to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44627129 When Poland made it a criminal offence this year to accuse it of complicity in Nazi war crimes, there was an outcry in Europe, Isra
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by akolbe 4y ago
There's another discussion here currently, concerning another academic study concluding that Wikipedia has a "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34744696 Basi
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by akolbe 4y ago
The Hungarian Wikipedia being overrun by neonazis is news to me. Are you sure you didn't mean the Croatian one? In the Croatian case, the Wikimedia Foundation commissioned a study (a "Disinformation Assessment") that did inde
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by akolbe 4y ago
This is incorrect. The paper is about Polish editors editing the English Wikipedia.
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by akolbe 4y ago
An additional factor here is that now chatbots like ChatGPT are trained on Wikipedia as well, in addition to search engines' knowledge graph panels and voice assistants bringing up Wikipedia texts in response to queries. It does make

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