The crying "History" button at the top right sends its regards. Yes, the World Jewish Congress has published a report that demands Wikipedia add a feature to view the history of articles, see what actions were performed by whom, and "host forums and discussions within the Wikipedia community to address concerns about neutrality...
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
Since Bill Ackman and his followers have so many questions about how Wikipedia works now that his wife has been accused of plagiarizing from it, I figured I'd help him out.
Have you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.
He bought #Twitter and has steadily gutted it. The goal is to destroy it because it gave regular people power to organize for change.
Now he’s attacking #Wikipedia because it contains facts and education, which are antithetical to the goals of him and his type.
He might be an idiot in a lot of ways. But he is absolutely doing this with purpose. I worry it’s dangerous to view his actions through any other lens.
C'est marrant quand même mais cette histoire de "trouver un consensus sur #Wikipedia" n'a pas l'air de super bien fonctionner.
Si on regarde la page de discussion française sur Chelsea Manning, ça fait 10 ans que le sujet de son genre est sur la table. 10 ans sur l'accord à utiliser.
10 ans sur un sujet futile.
Quel projet peut survivre avec des règles qui autorisent les pigeons à chier sur la table avec autant de facilité?
of tariffs, imports and customs. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning....
french wikipedia admins are now perma-banning #lgbtq contributors with years of experience who dared voicing some opposition to the "how shall we deadname trans people" poll.
this is ridiculous and revolting. how can an open-source project of this size lack a proper CoC and measures for its enforcement ?
If tech bros funded by VC tech bros had started wikipedia ( @wikipedia ), the past few years would’ve been the same, but now they’d be pivoting to charge for Verified Editor Badges :deifirev: and introducing a scrollable feed of video shorts for Historical Figures Gone Goblin Mode
Bon, c'est tranché : première sortie de route en 19 ans d'inscription, première sanction : le blocage indéfini.
Fini dès lors pour moi de contribuer en quoi que ce soit à #WikipediaFR.
Le contributeur connu sous le pseudo de "Chouette bougonne" qui a multiplié en discussion les messages irrespectueux et dénigrants sur moi, la communauté #trans/#LGBT et les contributeurices en général, s'en sortira probablement avec un administrateur qui lui fera les gros yeux avant de l'inviter à aller boire une pinte, et ce en dépit des multiples remarques et du blocage temporaire qu'il a déjà subis ces deux dernières années, soit à peu près l'âge de son compte.
Il n'était pas le seul, mais c'était clairement le plus acharné du lot.
#Wikipedia n'est pas une encyclopédie libre et collaborative.
C'est une encyclopédie privée, largement financée hors des contributions du public, qui a bénéficié de collaborations ouvertes de la part de personnes qui se sont cooptées pour garder leur petit pouvoir pendant plus de 20 ans, et dont un des administrateurs m'a dit pas plus tard que la semaine dernière qu'il ne s'agissait pas non plus d'une "démocratie", et qu'après tout ce temps, ils "tâtonnent" toujours au niveau de la gouvernance de leur bastringue.
Ne perdez pas votre temps et votre énergie. Ces gens ne changeront jamais à moins d'être débarqués de l'extérieur.
Navrée pour vous si vous croyez encore en un monde meilleur : il ne passera pas par eux.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which serves as the non-profit host for #Wikipedia, @wikidata, @mediawiki, and other free knowledge projects, has joined the Fediverse as @wikimediafoundation - welcome!!
"Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that French police officer Alphonse Bertillon standardized the process."
New Year new #Wikipedia list. Reebee Garofalo was one of the original people who put together Rock Against Racism Massachusetts but you may know him as the snare player for the Good Trouble Brass Band playing in the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands. He was cited in a ton of other Wikipedia articles and made that Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart you may have seen in an Edward Tufte book. A good guy to get to know, deserves a longer article but this is good for now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebee_Garofalo
I'd better say this in English too. As a university researcher and teacher I absolutely love Wikipedia, I use it all the time, and I teach my students how to use it.
I rarely edit on the English site, but I do edit from time to time on the Danish site; sometimes extensively. And yes, those are hours well spent for a researcher and teacher.
19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles (signpost.news)
The crying "History" button at the top right sends its regards. Yes, the World Jewish Congress has published a report that demands Wikipedia add a feature to view the history of articles, see what actions were performed by whom, and "host forums and discussions within the Wikipedia community to address concerns about neutrality...
Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia (wikimediafoundation.org)
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
TIL in 1893, the US Supreme Court held 9–0 that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit in Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304, for purposes (en.wikipedia.org)
of tariffs, imports and customs. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning....