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🚨 AI vs. Wikipedia

Dal 2024 i crawler AI hanno fatto +50% traffico su rallentando i loro server: https://www.hdblog.it/tecnologia/articoli/n614009/wikipedia-problema-intelligenze-artificiali/

Intanto nel 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 federati

🌍 Ogni byte risparmiato = meno costi e minor impatto ambientale

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...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/02/a-self-hosted-wikipedia-and-other-bits-clone-using-kiwix-on-a-raspberry-pi-4/

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.

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.

@internet

If you think it's time for the Wikimedia Foundation to complete , then you can:
* Subscribe to (pretty inactive) @wikimediafoundation
* Challenge clearly the rationals to stay on "the hostile network" at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Social_media

I feel like is giving free advertising to with this message.

If you don't want to donate to Jimbo, consider responding with a donation to the or , as he's effectively threatening to target independent media here, and these are the groups which will be on the front-line against him when he takes control of the regulatory system...

Kiwix 2.4 for Windows & GNU/Linux has been released!

18 months of dev. work, more than a dozen of developers, almost 250 issues fixed have been necessary!

Most important improvements:
* Revamping of the internal Library
* Robuster download manager
* Far better portable version
* New table of content
* Revamped search box
... here is the complete changelog https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/releases/tag/2.4.0

Enjoy it!
https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

... and all the best to ;)