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rantolo del giorno
#wikipedia veniva criticata per il suo modello aperto che esponeva potenzialmente a manipolazioni e imprecisioni
e questa fondazione fornisce i suoi servizi gratuitamente
adesso affidiamo anima, corpo e affari a sistemi #LLM che forniscono risposte statistiche e determinatamente imprecise
e paghiamo profumatamente queste aziende
Mastodon ist offiziell ein Digital Public Good!
Die @dpgalliance hat #Mastodon in das Register der digitalen öffentlichen Güter eingetragen - wie auch kürzlich #Wikipedia. Wir gratulieren!
Was zeichnet ein digitales öffentliches Gut aus?
- quelloffene Software
- offene Standards
- offene Daten
- offene Inhaltssammlungen
Als offenes, freies, dezentrales und community-basiertes soziales Netzwerk ist Mastodon ein wichtiger Baustein für eine offene digitale Infrastruktur.
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/mastodon
I have been using `site:mybank.com [search terms]` semi-sucessfully, though most of the search engines are increasingly bad.
mojeek.com is increasingly better.
Sadly, en.wikipedia.org is increasingly the best web search engine over-all. Naturally, that is not #Wikipedia's purpose.
A little over a year ago I wrote a #Wikipedia article about the "Goose and the Common", an 18th century poem about the privatization of #commons land during the enclosures in England:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_and_the_Common
My partner just started reading "Sunrise on the Reaping", the second prequel to the #HungerGames trilogy, which quotes the poem. Page views jumped up 3X when the book was published in March, and are still greatly elevated. So I guess the internet is not fully dead yet :)
🪿🪿🪿
I had the dumbest conversation of my entire life.
I told someone how #tariffs work, specifically that they are charged to American companies, and are essentially a tax on them which turns into a tax on the consumer when the company raises prices, and don't make money.
They told me I was wrong, and then I sent them the #wikipedia link which said what I said.
They told me Wikipedia was liberal #propaganda and couldn't be trusted.
I gave up and blocked them
What do folks think about the "Edge Uniques" cookie being proposed for Wikimedia wikis?
There is a write up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edge_Uniques and a blog post at https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/09/using-privacy-engineering-to-enable-modern-usability-testing-and-defend-against-network-attacks/ where you can start exploring the topic if it is new to you.
🚨 AI vs. Wikipedia
Dal 2024 i crawler AI hanno fatto +50% traffico su #Wikipedia rallentando i loro server: https://www.hdblog.it/tecnologia/articoli/n614009/wikipedia-problema-intelligenze-artificiali/
Intanto nel #Fediverso i post vecchi (specie con media) gravano su tutti i server e sono bersaglio di scraper
🛠 potrebbe aiutare cancellare i propri contenuti vecchi su Mastodon: https://mastodon.uno/statuses_cleanup
I server consumano energia e ogni foto può pesare su centinaia di server #mastodon federati
🌍 Ogni byte risparmiato = meno costi e minor impatto ambientale
Why does the collapsed text of {{expand Finnish}} on the English #Wikipedia end up in the #DuckDuckGo snippet?
Today is a good day to contribute to Wikipedia, and the open web.
"The few properly recognized women and black scientists are quickly having their biographies wiped from US records and institutions. Please maintain a record of them."
This afternoon's project: "A self-hosted Wikipedia (and other bits) clone, using kiwix on a Raspberry Pi 4"
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.
The go-to tool for this seems to be kiwix, and that’s what I used, running on a Raspberry Pi.
The hardest part was faffing around with the SSD...
Can we cadge together the internet archives and wikipedia into a real search engine news site?
Can we build self repairing free public utilities?
#wikipedia #intetnetArchives #searchEngine #trith #liars #killers #nazis #Google #techBros
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
The funding goes to programs to expand coverage of underrepresented topics, recruit editors with expertise in neglected subject areas, develop tools to identify and counter coordinated disinformation campaigns, improve article and source reliability, and protect the project and its editors from attempts to censor or restrict access to Wikipedia content.
A commento alla notizia del piano della #HeritageFoundation di doxxare e intimidire gli editor di #Wikipedia, questo mini thread è particolarmente importante secondo me.
Link al thread: https://bsky.app/profile/dsquareddigest.bsky.social/post/3lf6w7mzpds2p
Link allo scoop: https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/
Con la caduta di altre fonti di informazione, l'ostinata indipendenza di Wikipedia diventa più vitale che mai.
Gli attacchi della destra americana non riguardano solo un'enciclopedia online, ma fanno parte di un assalto più ampio a qualsiasi fonte di informazione che si rifiuti di essere controllata.
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/
La Fondazione Heritage, Il think tank conservatore, progetta di “identificare e prendere di mira” i redattori di Wikipedia.
