RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115901357070406663
Imma go out on a limb & say that Wikipedia just lost almost all of their editors & are about to find out who REALLY creates the actual value...
These motherfuckers, man. The stupidity, the greed, the duplicity. 🤬
The @wikipedia infoboxes have been iconic for a while, but this is a new level for a bunch of reasons.
Wondering about the copyright status of that image.
Can we use the that image on the page?
I just discovered this #nigerian #library #wikidata thing: https://nlnsnar.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
It looks like #wikimediaDE is bootstrapping Nigerian library authority control to enable better coverage of Nigerian culture and literature in #Wikipedia.
It could be great!
It could be also be v colonial.
Any Nigerians around care to chime in on this?
I just discovered this #nigerian #library #wikidata thing: https://nlnsnar.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
It looks like #wikimediaDE is bootstrapping Nigerian library authority control to enable better coverage of Nigerian culture and literature in #Wikipedia.
It could be great!
It could be also be v colonial.
Any Nigerians around care to chime in on this?
"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."
Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.
#AI #genai #LLM #wikipedia #internet #tech #news
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
Looks like the english #Wikipedia article for "Clanker" has been semi-protected until January 2026 due to vandalism (indicated by a lock symbol at the top right).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker
"Clanker is a slur for robots and [AI] software.[...]In 2025, the term became widely used to discuss distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models."
Aww, don't you like some backlash against your holy technology, lil' #AI tech bros!?
AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:
Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:
And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure
AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:
Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:
And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure
The things I see being planned for #Wikipedia25 fail to inspire me. I'll admit that I'm not in the stated target audience of the campaign.
We need a #25Edits campaign to encourage people to make 25 edits on a wiki.
Or #5on5wiki25 --- five edits on each of five wikis for the twenty fifth anniversary.
Or celebrate 25 of our wonderful diverse editors.
The things I see being planned for #Wikipedia25 fail to inspire me. I'll admit that I'm not in the stated target audience of the campaign.
We need a #25Edits campaign to encourage people to make 25 edits on a wiki.
Or #5on5wiki25 --- five edits on each of five wikis for the twenty fifth anniversary.
Or celebrate 25 of our wonderful diverse editors.
fixed that for you
