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Ah, #Wikipedia, the place where history professors go to cry 😢 and conspiracy theorists go to edit ✏️. Dive into the thrilling world of #mercantilism, where economic policies are as outdated as your grandma's fax machine 📠. Spoiler alert: It's just countries hoarding gold like it's a Fortnite game 🪙.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercanti #EconomicHistory #ConspiracyTheories #GoldHoarding #HackerNews #ngated

en.wikipedia.orgMercantilism - Wikipedia
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"we must consider the networks of links and hyperlinks between articles that affect the visibility of biographies. Specifically, if women’s articles are poorly connected to other articles, they become more challenging to find. It is essential to clarify that creating links is a complex skill that involves identifying related pages and adding hyperlinks to them, which has significant implications for information retrieval and visibility on the Web."
#wikipedia

"Epistemic violence remains pervasive in much of the moderated content online, yet its extent is challenging to measure. This paper introduces a novel approach to address this gap by proposing an Epistemic Violence Index applied to #Wikipedia biographies of Latin American women scientists and writers...constructing a graph representation of the Wikipedia network connections for leading female figures in science and literature from the 19th and 20th centuries"

ceur-ws.org/Vol-3946/DARLI-AP-

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident ✧

A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for aircraft supplyin...

#FalklandsWar #ArmyAirCorps #FalklandIslands #BritishArmy #EastFalkland #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Bri

#LGBTQ #Ukrainian #Wikipedia deletion alert

Не могли б ви зберегти цю статтю #української Вікіпедії, пов’язану з ЛГБТК, від видалення?

Енні Мерфі (uk)
Annie Murphy (en)

uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D

uk.wikipedia.orgЕнні Мерфі — Вікіпедія

Steile These zum Wochenede:

"Die #Wikipedia-Oberfläche muss so bleiben, wie ich sie kenne! Dass die alte für Neulinge unübersichtlich, weniger barrierefrei und technisch veraltet ist, ist mir egal!"

"Mein Alltag muss so bleiben, wie ich ihn kenne! Dass meine Lebensweise dazu beiträgt, dass das gesamte Ökosystem zusammenbrechen könnte, ist mir egal!"

Same vibe. Neu ist böse. Alt ist gut. Es darf sich nichts verändern.

Und besonders in Deutschland ist diese Einstellung unheimlich verbreitet.

#Wikipedia: In einer Welt in der Autokraten und die, die welche werden wollen, Bildungseinrichtungen angreifen, Menschen von Teilhabe ausschließen, Geschichte verdrehen und Fakten zu Meinungen erklären, ist eine frei zugängliche Wissensdatenbank eine der kostbarsten Ressourcen, die wir haben.
Wer noch nicht weiß, wie kostbar, denen empfieht sich der geniale Podcast #Sockenpuppenzoo.

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ red panda ✧

The red panda is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has dense reddish-brown fur with a black belly and legs, and a ringed tail. It has a head-to-body length of 51–63.5 cm (20–25 in) and a 28–48.5 cm (11–19 in) tail, and it weighs between 3.2 and 15 kg (7 and 33 lb). It is genetically close to raccoons, weasels and skunks. Solitary...

#China #Himalayas #IUCNRedList #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda