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by akolbe 4y ago
A Wikipedia admin is an unpaid volunteer (not a staffer) with access to extra functions of the MediaWiki software Wikipedia uses. They typically get these rights through a community vote like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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I agree the title is terrible. Hacker News demands that original titles be used. :/
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Not that it makes much difference, perhaps, but as far as I can tell from looking at archives of the Arabic Wikipedia sysop list, both the jailed Wikipedians (User:OsamaK and User:Ziad) had stopped being administrators around 2017, several
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Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration(arstechnica.com)
185 points by akolbe 4y ago|65 comments
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by akolbe 4y ago
> Use the free market to develop a compelling alternative Mastodon is seen as the main Twitter alternative by many. Lots of people migrating there from Twitter.
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Saudi Arabia: Govt Agents Infiltrate Wikipedia, Independent Admins Put in Prison(dawnmena.org)
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Another report, by DAWN (the org mentioned in the Guardian article): https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra...
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For context see the report on the recent bans of Arabic Wikipedia admins by the Wikimedia Foundation in Wikipedia's community newspaper, the Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost&#x2F
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by akolbe 4y ago
It'll take a while for the dust to settle, I think. For now, it must be said that if it weren't for Musk, we wouldn't have this info. Some people at least will see this as a reason to stay on (or re-join) Twitter. The nice th
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by akolbe 4y ago
I agree that it is a bipartisan problem, but then I thought that was the exact point the article was trying to make: ... many things could change in the years ahead that make the existing status quo more perilous for leftists: Twitter coul
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by akolbe 4y ago
Well, as you say, the Snowden leaks are ten years old. It's good to have some more recent details. The result was a deluge of censorship requests from the FBI. The bureau, Taibbi reports, sent over “lists of hundreds of problem accoun
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by akolbe 4y ago
This is one paragraph that I thought was salient: In other words, the creeping merger of the national security state with Twitter doesn’t just bring up issues of political censorship. It also suggests that the website supposedly meant to b
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Why the Twitter files are in fact a big deal(jacobin.com)
27 points by akolbe 4y ago|24 comments
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Meteorologists will tell you that temperature records are usually broken by fractions – tenths or hundreds – of a degree. To see records broken by multiple degrees, across an entire continent, is unusual. Times article, for reference: &#x2
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Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes(en.wikipedia.org)
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"Submission declined on 13 November 2022". Surprised they tried to get a BLP given the wealth of unflattering press articles.
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Grassy slopes in the Alps? European slopes' snow shortage in record warm winter(latimes.com)
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"Temperatures in Vysokaje, Belarus, would normally hover around zero at this time of year. On Sunday they reached 16.4C, beating the country’s previous record January high by 4.5C.Temperatures in Vysokaje, Belarus, would normally hove
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Mobile Editing(en.wikipedia.org)
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Ken Block: Rally driver and YouTuber killed in snowmobile accident(bbc.co.uk)
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by akolbe 4y ago
FWIW, DeepL gets that one consistently right: Steve Jobs fue despedido de Apple. O Steve Jobs foi despedido da Apple. Steve Jobs a été renvoyé d'Apple. Steve Jobs wurde von Apple gefeuert. Steve Jobs werd ontslagen bij Apple. Google Tr
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by akolbe 4y ago
Which was kind of my point – DeepL knows that (sometimes). In the above case ("mud all over the shop"), it offers you "place" ("Ort") as an alternative translation for "shop". So it seems to have some
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DeepL gives you the following for "There's mud all over the shop": "Der ganze Laden ist voller Schlamm." (German) But if you place the cursor on "Laden" ("shop") it'll offer you alternatives
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What's remarkable is how good machine translation (DeepL, Google Translate) has become at handling idiomatic expressions in recent years. Still not perfect, of course (there's still the odd clanger), but anyone trying to do the sa
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Care to give an example? Otherwise your comment is not very helpful.
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The Wikimedia Foundation has been hiring "Disinformation" staffers over the past year or two. Related discussion (see first section titled "Meetings about misinformation with FBI, CISA, etc.."): https://en.wik
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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins(en.wikipedia.org)
44 points by akolbe 4y ago|13 comments
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Initially at least the idea is to have basic articles, much like the content of Simple English Wikipedia. Here is an example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Examples/...
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For reference, "Abstract Wikipedia" is designed to increase access to Wikipedia information in hitherto poorly served languages (think South Asia, Africa, etc.). The idea is to generate language-independent, structured information
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Wikimedia's Abstract Wikipedia project “at substantial risk of failure”(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by akolbe 4y ago|3 comments

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