Quan puc vaig fent menuts #microdonatius... N'he fet a #mastodontcat, a la #WikimediaFoundation i a #signalapp
Quan puc vaig fent menuts #microdonatius... N'he fet a #mastodontcat, a la #WikimediaFoundation i a #signalapp
On passe à Johanna Daniel sur la #bibliotheque #wikipedia, avec l'accès gratuit à des #publications #scientifiques payantes = bouquet de ressources après accord entre les éditeurs et la #wikimediafoundation
Cela comprend par exemple Jstor, Brill, Proquest, #Cairn, Oxford, Cambridge, Newspaper archives, #ancestry, British Online Archives.
C'est accessible à partir de 500 modifications tous projets confondus, être inscrit depuis plus de 6 mois.
Wikipedia Pauses AI Summaries Due To Backlash #ai #artificalintelligence #artificialintelligence #internet #wikimediafoundation #wikipedia
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/355734/wikipedia-pauses-ai-summaries-due-to-backlash/
#Trump-Umfeld bedroht #Enzyklopädie
#Wikipedia:
Der #US-Angriff auf das #freie #Wissen hat begonnen.
Es ist eine Attacke, die sich lange angekündigt hatte – nun könnte es ernst werden. Der #Trump-nahe #US-Staatsanwalt Ed Martin hat ein Schreiben an die freie #Enzyklopädie #Wikipedia geschickt.
Damit will er nach eigenen Angaben feststellen, ob die #Muttergesellschaft der Website, die #WikimediaFoundation, fälschlicherweise den Status der #Gemeinnützigkeit innehat.
"On 8 May, 2025, the @wikimediafoundation, the nonprofit that hosts @wikipedia, announced that it is challenging the lawfulness of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA)’s Categorisation Regulations. We are arguing that they place Wikipedia and its users at unacceptable risk of being subjected to the OSA’s toughest “Category 1” duties, which were originally designed to target some of the UK’s riskiest websites."
Wikipedia Says It Won’t Replace Humans With AI #ai #artificalintelligence #artificialintelligence #wikimediafoundation #wikipedia
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/350211/wikipedia-says-it-wont-replace-humans-with-ai/
Ed Martin, członek administracji Donalda Trumpa, grozi podjęciem kroków prawnych przeciwko Wikipedii z tytułu „manipulacji faktami”
Największa na świecie internetowa encyklopedia pisana przez wolontariuszy znalazła się pod ostrzałem ze strony administracji Donalda Trumpa. Według Eda Martina, członka obecnej administracji USA, Wikipedia „pozwala” na „manipulowanie faktami historycznymi” i „szerzenie obcej propagandy”.
Wikipedia Offers Dataset For AI Training To Deter Bot Scraping #ai #artificalintelligence #artificialintelligence #wikimediafoundation #wikipedia
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/348673/wikipedia-offers-dataset-for-ai-training-to-deter-bot-scraping/
Yesterday I heard #wikipedia may be banned in #India. It's one the biggest countries in #Wikimedia movement, India had the most (remote) participants in the #Wikimania 2024. I guess the banning is related to this: #Wikimediafoundation was asked to reveal an editor who had edited an article about ANI media company.
How crawlers impact the operations of the #Wikimedia projects
Web crawlers collecting training data for #AI models are overwhelming #Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the #WikimediaFoundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged 50% since January, primarily from automated programs scraping #WikimediaCommons' 144 million openly licensed media files.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
Wikipedia Sees A 50 Percent Bandwidth Increase Due To AI Bot Crawlers #artificalintelligence #wikimediafoundation #wikipedia
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% - On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-bandwidth-surges-50/ #wikimediafoundation #machinelearning #wikipedia #biz #ai
Wikimedia Infrastructure is being mass-scraped for AI Usage — the content is free, the infrastructure is not. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/ #AI, #Crawlers, #Infrastructure, #KnowledgeAsAService, #KnowledgeContent, #Operations, #Scraping, #ScrapingBots, #Traffic, #WikimediaFoundation, #WikimediaProjects
(original repost on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/autpsf/how_crawlers_impact_operations)
"Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view" https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/27/strengthening-wikipedias-neutral-point-of-view/ #GlobalTrends2025, #WikimediaFoundation
The December 2024 @wikimediafoundation developer satisfaction survey results have been published!
This survey is used by the #WikimediaFoundation to measure developer satisfaction in the #WikiMedia and #MediaWiki communities, & determine where to invest resources in the future.
Read it, Analyse the Results, Talk about it, And ask questions!: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2025
Ujawniony list do Komisji Europejskiej sugeruje niepewną przyszłość umowy dotyczącej przekazywania danych między UE a USA
Istnieje niepotwierdzone jeszcze ryzyko, że usługi mające swój zarząd w Stanach Zjednoczonych mogą zostać zamknięte w krajach Unii Europejskiej, gdyby Data Privacy Framework w obecnej postaci upadł.
They're not the only ones of course. I also canceled Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation), and the ACLU (years ago).
No more excusing antisemitism for me.
"The rising noise of criticism from Elon Musk and others"
File:Conversation with the Trustees 30 January.webm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conversation_with_the_Trustees_30_January.webm
resolutions:
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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies