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Image du 28 septembre :

Le chimiste et microbiologiste Louis Pasteur photographié par Nadar. Célèbre pour ses découvertes scientifiques, il sauva des millions de vies en développant un vaccin contre la rage et la maladie du charbon, ainsi que le processus de la pasteurisation. Il est mort ce jour, il y a 130 ans.

License : Public domain
Artiste : Paul Nadar
Crédits : File:Louis Pasteur, foto av Paul Nadar.jpg

#wikimedia #cpod #fr

Le chimiste et microbiologiste Louis Pasteur photographié par Nadar. Célèbre pour ses découvertes scientifiques, il sauva des millions de vies en développant un vaccin contre la rage et la maladie du charbon, ainsi que le processus de la pasteurisation. Il est mort ce jour, il y a 130 ans.

Image du jour Wiki Commons

@cpod_fr@techhub.social · 2 weeks ago

Image du 28 septembre :

License : Public domain
Artiste : Paul Nadar
Crédits : File:Louis Pasteur, foto av Paul Nadar.jpg

#wikimedia #cpod #fr

Tim Chambers and 1 other boosted

Wikipedia

@wikipedia@wikis.world · 3 weeks ago

Help choose the best image of the year, Vote for your favourites in the #WikimediaCommons Picture of the Year 2024 image competition which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on #Wikimedia Commons.

📸 Pictured is the 2023 Winner, Showing incense sticks being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution and was taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam.

🔗 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024

Incense plays an important role in Vietnamese life. It is considered as a sacred bridge to connect the visible life of human beings and the world of heaven, earth, and gods. Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution. (Trantuanviet, CC BY SA 4.0)

Wikipedia

@wikipedia@wikis.world · 3 weeks ago

📸 Pictured is the 2023 Winner, Showing incense sticks being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution and was taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam.

🔗 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024

der.hans and 1 other boosted

Renate Oude Nijeweme

@Renate@wikis.world · 4 weeks ago

There's only one week left to apply for the position of CEO of Wikimedia Netherlands. Is open knowledge your default, spreek je een aardig woordje Nederlands and do you have the experience we are looking for? Send us a note https://www.wikimedia.nl/directeur/

#vacature #utrecht #wikipedia #wikimedia

Renate Oude Nijeweme

@Renate@wikis.world · 4 weeks ago

#vacature #utrecht #wikipedia #wikimedia

Wikipedia

@wikipedia@wikis.world · last month

👀📱 Work is progressing for the mobile interface routing so you no longer need to see the m. subdomain when visiting #wikimedia projects…

For more information and timelines checkout: https://w.wiki/FHTE

During the training workshop, the students were using their smart phones for translation which have not tried doing before now. (Released by Onwuka Glory under CC0 1.0)

Julio J. boosted

Wikimedistas de Uruguay

@wikimedistasuy@mastodon.uy · 3 months ago

📸 ¿Sabías que muchos artículos de Wikipedia en español y muchos elementos de Wikidata necesitan imágenes que los ilustren? Wikimedistas de Uruguay ha ayudado a disponibilizar en Commons archivos que pueden ser útiles para llenar estos vacíos.

Contribuí agregando fotos, sonidos o videos de Wikimedia Commons a artículos en español y a elementos de Wikidata y ayudá a mejorar la comprensión y ampliar el conocimiento visual sobre diferentes temas. Aquí hay algunas sugerencias de imágenes y páginas que las pueden necesitar: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/WPWP_Uruguay_2025/Recursos

Desde el 1 de julio al 31 de agosto podés participar en la edición uruguaya del concurso internacional Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, aunar esfuerzos con la comunidad global y acceder a reconocimientos.

¡Editá y sumate! 💪

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #WDU #WPWP

Shauna GM

@shauna@social.coop · 2 months ago

Does anyone know how Duckduckgo (or google for that matter) get the summaries that accompany wikipedia articles when they show up in search results? There seem to be hallucinated rape allegations against a person in said summaries, but I don't know if it's hallucinated by AI, a random wikipedia editor, or something else.

(Specifically, what I think the AI/editor is getting wrong is that this person made rape allegations against someone else. She was not the subject of them.)

Nemo_bis 🌈

@nemobis@mamot.fr replied · 2 months ago

@shauna Last time I checked, #DuckDuckGo's "information module" (https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/23/searching-for-wikipedia-duckduckgo-and-the-wikimedia-foundation-share-new-research-on-how-people-use-search-engines-to-get-to-wikipedia/) was (ir)regularly generated from #Wikimedia data dumps.

Both with DDG and Google it can happen that the "wrong version" (e.g. blatant vandalism) gets cached in the previews or other snippets and served to users even long after being removed from the actual article. Search in the history (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:History), optionally with a tool (like https://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php ), to check where the text came from.

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The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org · 3 months ago

#EFF: We Support #Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to #UK’s #OnlineSafetyAct

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/we-support-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-uks-online-safety-act

#privacy #politics

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr · 3 months ago

Now, the #IETF itself: impact of crawlers on the many IETF Web services. The IETF data must be public, so blocking is not an option in most cases.

20 Mbytes (on 277 by month) are sent to bots. (AI crawlers are a minority of these bots.)

#IETF123

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr replied · 3 months ago

Now the testimony for #Wikimedia : the network use increases (+50 % in the last year), partly from bots (not always AI bots).

Bots have broader interests than humans (they don't go to the most popular page of the day) so are less often served from cache. Bots make 35 % of the traffic but 65 % of the expensive [not from caches] traffic.

But like IETF, WIkimedia does not want to block: the goal is to make knowledge available.

Heavy users should download the dumps?

@Milena_Hime

#IETF123

Agaric Tech Collective boosted

Jan Ainali

@ainali@social.coop · 3 months ago

For all #WikimediaCommons people, I wrote a high-level overview of the copyright management on Commons. If you would like to take a look and see if I missed something vital, I would greatly appreciate it: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:CommonsDB_registry/Commons_copyright_managament_summary_for_IVIR
#Wikimedia #copyright

Jan Ainali

@ainali@social.coop · 3 months ago

The New Oil

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org · 3 months ago

#EFF: We Support #Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to #UK’s #OnlineSafetyAct

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/we-support-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-uks-online-safety-act

#privacy #politics

Tim Chambers boosted

Wikidata

@wikidata@wikis.world · 4 months ago

🎉 Exciting news! The #CoolestToolAward returns for its sixth edition!
🛠️ Nominate your favorite (Wikidata or otherwise) tools and celebrate the incredible developers who made them.
Nominate now: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2025].
Top tools to be announced at Wikimania 2025. #wikimedia