2025-11-28 13:07:16
#TIL: "Illeismus" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeismus
[via meiner Stiefmama, die "Ille" gerufen wird 🙃]
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration
A Night To Remember (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to_Remember_(1958_film)) is, in every way, a better film than Titanic.
The clincher is when it soo accurately depicts the awfulness of a rubbish cuppa. Brutal.
ChatGPT nutzt Grokipedia – Musks Wikipedia-Konkurrent
Grokipedia ist eine KI-generierte Enzyklopädie, betreut von Elon Musks xAI-Team. ChatGPT greift auf die teils kruden Inhalte zu.
https://www.
edit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1671 nodes and 2861 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
<…
Sur la page Möngönmort de wikipédia francophone
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Möngönmort&wprov=rarw1
On trouve comme page associée DaDal
Videotipp: AI-generated content in Wikipedia - a tale of caution
By Mathias Schindler
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution
Arguing that criticism of Zionism is criticism of all Jewish people is like arguing that criticism of MAGA is criticism of all Americans.
Just like there are a large number of Americans who are MAGA, there are a large number of Jews who are Zionists but no, not all Americans are MAGA and not all Jews are Zionists (rule of thumb, if your argument starts with “All Jews are…”, it’s a fundamentally antisemitic one).
Furthermore, just like not all MAGA are Americans (hello, Nigel Far…
[Uta Briesewitz, Kamera bei 29 Folgen von "The Wire", seither auch bei verschiedenen US-Serien als Regisseurin tätig, von denen Ihr einige gesehen haben könntet, zuletzt "Severance", aktuell "The Pitt"]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uta_Briesewitz
»The origins of the exact dimensions of Letter size paper are lost in tradition and not well documented. The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual papermaking and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms."« 🤡
Source:
Vor genau 20 Jahren wurde der #AKVorrat gegründet, Im Dezember 2005 bei einem Congress des CCC.
Und noch immer und immer wieder wollen Parteien die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung einführen.
Nehmt das nicht hin.
"Wie nutzt ihr BEACONs in 2026 und was sind eure Meinungen und Erfahrungen zum Format?", fragt @… im #metadaten-Forum:
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
Meine bisherige sonntagmorgendliche #Wikipedia-Themenreise:
Konzil von Nicäa II -> Anastasius Bibliothecarius -> Hadrian II. -> Walpurga - Walpurgisnacht -> Brocken.
#TIL: Bibi kommt eigentlich vom Brocken, dem dominantesten Berg Deutschlands.
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"
-- Unberto Eco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism?wprov=sfla1
Browsing around to find obscurities such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9home - who's ever had / used one?
Anyone played with RISC OS?
Blossoms Shanghai | MUBI
Wikipedia:
'Blossoms Shanghai [..] is a Chinese drama television series directed and produced by Wong Kar-wai. It is adapted from the 2013 novel Blossoms written by Jin Yucheng.[1] The series is set in Shanghai in the 1990s and stars Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tiffany Tang, and Xin Zhilei. It is the first television series directed by Wong.[2]'
Essay en interview: Misschien heeft mijn hele leven hiertoe geleid: Wong Kar Wai over Blossoms Shanghai | #MUBI
https://mubi.com/nl/program-notes/my-entire-life-may-have-been-leading-up-to-this-wong-kar-wai-on-blossoms-shanghai
Just learned of the old unit of mass 'slug':
A slug is defined as a mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.
How I got to this from reading the Linux kernel USB HID code...no, weird....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(un
wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115972744331119621
A nice blog post that asks "Are there any open APIs left?" (Spoiler: Many have disappeared, but there're still Wikipedia, Google Books ISBN lookup, Pokémon API , MusicBrainz and others)
There's that song that begins "What can you do with a drunken sailor?"
Well, one may ask what can you do with an ICE agent?
The ancient Greeks may have had an answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparagmos#/media/File:Po…
1930 is going public domain on Jan 1.
Some say Chocolate Chip Cookies started in 1938 ( wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_chip_cookie )
BUT, we have a cook book with from 1930 with a recipe!
#Technologieoffen
Alternativ: Energiepolitik der GroKo.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrische_Dampflokomotive
(via
For any #Wikipedia editors out there who also know something about Internet routing ... earlier this week I significantly updated the "RouteViews" article after discovering to my immense surprise that it was a very short and small article that didn't say much:
There is always a Tyrrell to be found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tyrrell
@… Have you seen this post by @… ? https://www.
I looked up Fuel on Wikipedia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_(hardcore_band)
...and there is a link to the page for Sarah Kirsch (who was trans) and it's not there...
Jullie kennen het verhaal van Hind Rajab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
Ik heb gisteravond haar stem gehoord. De stem van een klein meisje dat drieeneenhalf uur in doodsangst zat, in een auto naast de lijken van haar familie.
Er was vooraf een…
English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
#Wikipedia gilt als selbstverständlich. Genau das ist das Problem. KI-Systeme nutzen sie als Wissensquelle, ohne Gegenleistung. Gleichzeitig geraten Qualität und Deutungshoheit unter Druck. Wir sprechen bei #9vor9 darüber, warum Wikipedia ein Gemeingut ist das aktiv verteidigt werden muss.
Wie ich es prophezeit habe, hat #grokipedia nun auch #bilder (zB in den Artikeln #Wikipedia und Larry
Wie ich es prophezeit habe, hat #grokipedia nun auch #bilder (zB in den Artikeln #Wikipedia und Larry
This Crimbo, I will mostly be hanging out on Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky and Reddit, in that order, while non-stop Stargate SG-1 plays on my telly.
Mood: I am the round red twat in this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon
das älteste tier von dem das alter bestimmt werden konnte war eine muschel namens "ming" die 2006 gefunden wurde
die wurde 507 jahre alt
das konnte man aber nur durch ein durchschneiden der muschel bestimmen
vielleicht sollten wir einfach mal alle tiere durchschneiden um ihr alter zu bestimmen -- vielleicht finden wir dann eins was 508 jahre alt ist oder so
“We’re No Angels” is my favorite Christmas movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We're_No_Angels_(1955_film)
Archive .today verändert Webseiten. Damit kann man es leider nicht mehr für Snapshots verwenden.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-capt…
For some reason have to think of the final scene in The Wave (1981)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
„Das Projekt #ONLYOFFICE wurde von der Firma Ascensio System SIA in Russland entwickelt, der Sitz des IT-Unternehmens befindet sich jedoch in Riga, Lettland, ist aber mehrheitlich in russischer Hand und unterliegt Sanktionen der EU gegen Russland im Zuge des Überfalls auf die Ukraine.“
Oh, ffs!
Searched for the film Big on Duck Duck Go. I pressed "continued on Wikipedia" and ended up on a non-existing page for "Big (film)" on Icelandic Wikipedia.
I went back and noticed that Iceland was checked as my location. I unchecked and tried it again and got the expected English language article.
There are levels of problems here but the most obvious might be the assumption that Icelandic Wikipedia has a page about any topic and that the Icelandic article woul…
This is called genocide denial. It is “an integral part of genocide” and includes “propaganda while the genocide is going on.”
“Denial is considered a genocidal process, the final stage, and a catalyst or indicator of future atrocities.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial
#TIL
Berlin (Massachusetts)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_%28Massachusetts)?wprov=sfla1
Der Ort wurde 1784 gegründet und Berlin genannt, da der erst…
It is one hell of a twist that the Wikipedia page for “Cow Tools”, one of the most niche and controversial single
panel cartoons in history, has now an “Example In real life” section. 😵💫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
@…
Born in 1965. TIL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Dutch Disease
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 40254 nodes and 190279 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…
#heiseshow: Autonomes Fahren, Archive.today, Lieferkettengesetz
In der #heiseshow: BMW bremst beim autonomen Fahren (Level 3), Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today und die EU stutzt ihr Lieferkettengesetz massiv zusammen.
You all deserve a break; so for my last #freesoftwareadvent I suggest the game
'Frozen bubble':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Bubble
"Freies Wissen braucht Freiwillige – Verbessert die Wikipedia mit Referenzen"
#Wikipedia
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
Remember Jaiku?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Hunderttausende Links: Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today nach Cyberangriff
Ein anderes Internet ist möglich
#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25
https://netzpol…
I woke up and read trump's words from Davos.
I thought - is trump channeling King Leopold II of Belgium?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
the ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…
In plaats van een krimi vanavond eens een film uit de serie ARD Debüt*. De film werd eerder op 1 december vorig jaar uitgezonden.
Das Meer Ist Der Himmel - Offizieller Kinotrailer
#ARD #SR
#ARDdebüt: #Roadmovie
So.. folks interested in "local-first" software and apps, I could use your help!
I created a Wikipedia article about local-first software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-first_software
A few weeks ago I noticed there wasn't one, so I started doing some…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
@… NB is a common abbreviation of nota bene,
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene>
<
Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861935/wikipedia-25th-anniversary-2026
<…
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
Apropos of nothing
Yesterday, January 20 was the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI in France in 1793.
And January 30 is the anniversary of the execution of Charles I in 1649.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I
Today there’s the virtual birthday 🎁 party 🎉 for the first 25 years of #Wikipedia
You can join!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_25_Virtual_Celebratio…
Naar aanleiding van het nieuwe lijstje langstzittende premiers van @… eens gekeken naar nr3.
Waar iedereen Rutte en Lubbers kent, kent volgens mij niemand Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck. Lijkt me alleen al onterecht aangezien hij nauwelijks demissionair geweest is en een paar pittige 'dossiers' op zn bord kreeg, zoals de Spaanse Griep en de revolutie die door Europa gingen. En later de beurs crash.
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck - Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ruijs_de_Beerenbrouck
wikipedia_link: Wikipedia links (2016)
Networks of hyperlinks among articles on Wikipedia, for all available languages. A directed edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 257226 nodes and 15349731 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/…
The English-language edition of Wikipedia
is blacklisting Archive.today
after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.
In
course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS,
Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages
to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS.
The alterations were apparently…
heise | Wikipedia wird 25: Zwischen Wissensmacht und Existenzkampf
Am 15. Januar 2026 feiert die Wikipedia ihr 25-jähriges Bestehen. Das Jubiläum findet in stürmischen Zeiten statt.
https://www.
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
Deutschsprachige Wikipedia erwägt umfassendes KI-Verbot
In der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia zeichnet sich ein umfassendes KI-Verbot ab. Eine Abstimmung zeigt eine deutliche Mehrheit für ein Verbot.
https://www.
dbpedia_occupation: Person-Occupation Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and occupations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 229307 nodes and 250945 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
Wikipedia: Verträge mit Mistral, Perplexity & Co. für KI-Trainingszugriff
Lange haben KI-Firmen für das KI-Training auf Wikipedia-Inhalte zugegriffen und dort die Serverlast steigen lassen. Nun nutzen immer mehr eine Alternative.
dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 519403 nodes and 6729794 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
wikipedia_link: Wikipedia links (2016)
Networks of hyperlinks among articles on Wikipedia, for all available languages. A directed edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 24913 nodes and 197952 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
wikipedia_link: Wikipedia links (2016)
Networks of hyperlinks among articles on Wikipedia, for all available languages. A directed edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 136014 nodes and 4919249 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
edit_wikinews: Wikipedia news edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about news events. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 8000 nodes and 50296 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…
dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
dbpedia_team: DBpedia athlete-team affiliations
Bipartite network of the affiliations (employment relations) between professional athletes and their teams, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 935627 nodes and 1366466 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://netwo…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…