Der große #Wikipedia Zukunftskongress hat heute begonnen! Dieses Wochenende wird in Nürnberg diskutiert, wie die Wikipedia der Zukunft aussieht! Nach Eröffnung durch die deutschen Wikimedia-Vorstände @chumborg und @FranziskaHeine sowie Claudia Gerád, Vorständin von Wikimedia Österreich, wurden von dem KI-Entwickler Richard Socher neue Möglichkeiten im Bereich der LLMs vorgestellt, um den Teilnehmenden ein paar Impulse mit auf den Weg zu geben! Wir sind gespannt auf die kommenden Tage!
En juin comme tous les ans nos activités tournent majoritairement autour du #MoisDesFiertés ! Rejoignez-nous en France, en Belgique ou en Suisse pour apprendre à réduire le #BiaisDeGenre sur @wikipedia_fr 😊 Bien sûr nous sommes comme toujours disponibles en ligne !
Supprimer : C'est un petit groupe local. Aucune notoriété au niveau national.
Supprimer : Absence de sources attestant d'une notoriété suffisante.
Supprimer : autopromo pour un groupe anecdotique.
Ok !
Supprimer, don annuel à #Wikipedia : J'en ai marre des trous'd'balles façon académie Française !
C'est toi qui est anecdotique gros étron ! 🤬
As mentioned before I’m actually reading „The #expanse“ (I’m half way through book 2).
The series has a weird effect on me (*): first I try to read up on all solar system related facts in #Wikipedia that are mentioned in the books. During my book triggered deep dives I regularly get hard episodes of wanderlust where I’d die to be able to experience the locations first hand.
*) this is not the only books that trigger that. 2001/2010 had the same effect...
When you see some of what WMF has to deal with in terms of massive scraping of not only Wikipedia, but also the gigantic codebase and ticketing system and many of the other services, you start to understand why GitHub killed off unauthenticated search.
Commercial and non-considerate activity, really is grinding the open Internet to a standstill at times.
Diesen Donnerstag ist wieder "Jugend editiert" im lokalen #Wikipedia-Raum „WikiBär“ in Berlin.
Die Veranstaltungsreihe wird durchgeführt von den Jungwikipedianer*innen. Das ist eine Community, in der man sich für Freies Wissen engagieren und lernen kann, Wikipedia-Artikel zu bearbeiten und zu erstellen und dazu auch neue Leute kennenlernen kann. Komm gern vorbei! Die Treffen finden an jedem ersten Donnerstag im Monat statt.
Letztes Jahr habe ich jeden Tag etwas zu #QueerJoy geschrieben. Dieses Jahr erzähle ich euch einfach hier und da von ein paar Bits und Pieces wo #Queerness in meiner Arbeit und meiner Freizeit auftaucht.
Dieses Semester betreuen eine Kollegin und ich Studi-Projekte zu #BannedBooks. Studis schauen sich Bücher aus der PEN-America-Liste an, schauen ob/wie sie in dt. Bibliotheken stehen und wie sie in #Wikipedia diskutiert werden. Was das mit #Queerness zu tun hat?
"And everywhere, it is the books that have long fought for a place on the shelf that are being targeted. Books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, by women. Books about racism, sexuality, gender, history."
Huge debates on Donald Trump’s #Wikipedia article whether to include “convicted felon” in its opening sentence.
Why does it matter? Wikipedia is among the most important training data for AI models. Expect lots of “anti-woke” grifters to demand that it be kept out of models.
I called it a banjo, and someone corrected me saying it was a ukulele. Since it had a drum head, that seemed enough to call it a banjo. #Wikipedia calls it a banjo ukulele or a banjolele
« Une pomme est un fruit » est la première version de l’article Wikipédia sur la pomme, lors de sa création le 20 novembre 2002.
Par la suite, cette phrase est devenue le symbole de l'évolution des articles sur Wikipédia 😉 . #LeSaviezVous#wikipédia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89volution_de_l%27article_Pomme.ogv
A nerd nostalgia thread of possible #RetroComputing interest:
From 1993-1994, I was a “technical assistant” in the RF Engineering department of #Comcast#Cellular. Back then, Comcast was a scrappy regional cable #TV operator making its first foray into #mobile telephony, not the multinational #telecommunications and media behemoth we know today. (1/6)
IIRC, any given AMPS antenna could only handle about 400 #mobile phone calls at once, and there were usually three antennae spanning the 360º around a #cellular tower. Busy areas often dropped phone calls as users were handed off between antennae.
Hmm, the #Wikipedia inverse Erlang-B #VisualBasic function bears a striking resemblance to my 1994 code… (5/6)
So, #wikipedia friends: my notability is somewhat borderline, and my article is bad, both of which evidenced by my article having had {{update}} since 2016. (The article's existence predates my time with WMF, and survived one RFD during my time at WMF.) Thoughts on next steps?
I could self-nom for deletion, or provide some citations for relevant updates, or...? In any case the current state seems bad for everyone—for me, and for the wiki. So thoughts welcome.
For #WIPWednesday, some #tatting underway. I'm currently on a kick to do denim doilies, and have done 3 in #BobbinLace so far. But now I want another style.
Using the wonderful hand-dyed thread from @yarnplayer called Blue Skies.
Pattern is by Anne Orr. I recently discovered what a #TextileHistory rock star she was--art editor, writer, entrepreneur, pattern designer... and no #Wikipedia page. I'll be fixing that eventually.
On/around 27th May 2024, the traffic from Azerbaijan to www.bbc.com & www.bbc.co.uk reduced by over 80%.
Looking at our data, I can see that the vast majority of traffic in Azerbaijan comes from AS29049 (Delta Telecom) which is their majority ISP according to Wikipedia.
OONI says tests were passing as recently as 28th May from AS29049 but there's definitely something going on...Unsure exactly what.
(the gap in AS29049 is a GeoIP data migration) #Azerbaijan#Censorship#InfoSec