2026-03-31 12:42:13
"Mining the commons: AI extraction, Wikipedia, and the case for a multi-stakeholder settlement"
https://policyreview.info/articles/news/commons-ai-extraction-wikipedia/2089
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"Mining the commons: AI extraction, Wikipedia, and the case for a multi-stakeholder settlement"
https://policyreview.info/articles/news/commons-ai-extraction-wikipedia/2089
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Ist Politik Bikeshedding¹?
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¹see #pol
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 83392 nodes and 1553757 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wikipedia verbietet KI-generierte Artikel, KI darf nur noch unterstützen
The studio recording and music video of the song "Moonbeam" by Ronald Carlson about Robert #Goddard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFfThH0v-w (the references in the chorus are to the cherry tree dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#Cherry_tree_dream and the fate of the farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Rocket_Launching_Site where the first rocket was launched).
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned https://www.404media.co/an-ai-agent-was-banned-from-creating-wikipedia-articles-then-wrote-angry-blogs-about-being-banned/…
I just saw that the Duke of Gloucester is visiting Berwick tomorrow so I looked him up and I can only conclude that giving Andrew the old heave ho has meant that they have had to give the bottom of the barrel a bit of a scrape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Richard,_…
#TIL that there is this viral AI-generated video series called Fruit Love Island, and it’s apparently so viral that numerous outlets have written about it thereby making it nominally notable to have its own #Wikipedia article. 😳
How can one not admire history’s exquisite dark sense of humor?
As part of a “delegation” of sanctioned Russian State Duma deputies visiting the United States,
there was none other than the actual grandson of USSR's Vyacheslav Molotov, there to discuss a Trump–Putin pact.
-- Sally Luxmoore€
@sallyl.bsky.social€
·
Sadly, this point may be lost on many people.
So:👇🏽
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Wikipedia
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…
I'm very uneasy about this 'FTA' - none of the other recently touted 'FTAs' is actually 'free trade' in any meaningful way. The secrecy around the terms is reprehensible. The fact that so many organisations were locked out of the process is unjustifiable. The fact that Stephen Jacobi supports it, and Todd MacLay and Phil Goff as well, makes me very suspicious. I think that our chief 'negotiator' (
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Hieronder een paar links voor verdere info.
Opvallend daarbij is dat sommige voorlichting al niet meer beschikbaar is (website is weg) of dat het enige en laatste nieuws uit 2020 😉
Slimme verkeerslichten: hoe werken ze?
#TalkingTraffic #iVRI #verkeer
If you're going to doom scroll, maybe you should learn something in the process.
This is an experimental interface for Wikipedia that resembles X.
I have become addicted.
https://xikipedia.org
Ik blijf me erover verbazen dat een volksvertegenwoordiger in de TK zo overduidelijk met deze drogreden kan komen zonder dat iemand interrumpeert en zegt: hee dit is de verzonken kosten drogreden.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verzonken_kosten
Alguien que nos explique por qué España no estš en GMT como Portugal, Irlanda, Reino Unido o Marruecos y en su lugar estamos en el huso de Polonia, Alemania o Macedonia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huso_horario#/media/Archivo:World_Time_Zones_Map.svg
I was in Donegal Town recently, and was impressed with the audacity of this business name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_homo
For no particular reason, I'm thinking of how many people with all sorts of political affiliations and personal motivations tried to kill Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/901461/wikipedia-ai-generated-article-ban
I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf
i just learned that "naturalistic fallacy" is not just a synonym the appeal-to-nature fallacy but is also used to discredit the attempt of defining goodness/badness in terms of natural terms (as opposed to supernatural, metaphysical, etc).
that just seems to define moral naturalism as fallacious, but i guess moral naturalism was just much less accepted when G.E. Moore identified that supposed fallacy.
"Learning from mistakes" as individuals is hard if those lessons are not (or can not be) percolated up or are even rejected by larger groups or society in general, if the behaviors one might consider a mistake on a personal/ethical level are actually rewarded and encouraged (or imposed) by those larger social structures.
So many people have tried so hard for so long to share their knowledge and tools, trying to teach & inspire others, to build communities to help make the…
Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.
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 52560 nodes and 1241806 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…
Yet again, days without being reminded not to donate to #wikipedia a dime: 0.
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
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/901461/wikipedia-ai-generated-article-ban
Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in air (1848–1849) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau%27s_measurement_of_the_speed_of_light_in_air
RE: #StarTrek episode broadcast on German TV ... and I still remember that day, despite being only 7 1/2 years old that day.
Is there already a gallery of the most well-known memes of our age? Not some funny inside-jokes but more like the archetypes of Commedia dell'arte, where people of the time would immediately see a character's mask and know what he was supposed to represent?
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comm
#Technologieoffen
Alternativ: Energiepolitik der GroKo.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrische_Dampflokomotive
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Denne artikel er på mange måder, et sindbillede på problemet med den danske Wikipedia. Artiklen omhandler en kvinde, der har gjort en stor indsats på et vigtigt område og artiklen findes på alle vores nabosprog, men altså ikke på dansk. #wikipedia htt…
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:
I finished reading a novel, Playground, by Richard Powers. It came recommended by Markus Krötzsch. I have to admit I rarely read novels, and this one was a good one to make an exception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playground_(novel)
Indeed, movie 🎥 for #ThickTrunkTuesday, a Gingko tree stars in three stories.
Any others?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Friend
am 9.5. kommt der #wikipedia-#bus von @wikimediaDE@wikimedia.de nach #münster:
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…
Remember Jaiku?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku
„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!
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 2511 nodes and 7745 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
Gem from Wikipedia: "The value of forward secrecy is that it protects past communication."
Of course, the name makes sense when you look at current communication being protected against a future compromise 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
LombardoGraphia: Automatic Classification of Lombard Orthography Variants
Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychl\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28418
arXiv:2603.28418v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Lombard, an underresourced language variety spoken by approximately 3.8 million people in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland, lacks a unified orthographic standard. Multiple orthographic systems exist, creating challenges for NLP resource development and model training. This paper presents the first study of automatic Lombard orthography classification and LombardoGraphia, a curated corpus of 11,186 Lombard Wikipedia samples tagged across 9 orthographic variants, and models for automatic orthography classification. We curate the dataset, processing and filtering raw Wikipedia content to ensure text suitable for orthographic analysis. We train 24 traditional and neural classification models with various features and encoding levels. Our best models achieve 96.06% and 85.78% overall and average class accuracy, though performance on minority classes remains challenging due to data imbalance. Our work provides crucial infrastructure for building variety-aware NLP resources for Lombard.
toXiv_bot_toot
Tissue-pack marketing in Japan, history and decline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue-pack_marketing
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
I’d like to welcome the Adams County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office to the Wikipedia Streisand Effect page. Congratulations on your well-deserved infamy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Streisand_effect&diff=prev&oldid=1344455735
@…
Born in 1965. TIL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Dutch Disease
A lot of people in my TL are speculating that the shooting was staged, and…I doubt that, but surely the right-wing •reaction• was. That’s why I say the story of the OP deserves attention.
People are saying “doing a Reichstag,” and…there’s a long-running debate, but historical consensus leans pretty strongly toward the Reichstag fire itself being a case of fascist opportunism and not fascist premeditation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire#Dispute_about_Van_der_Lubbe's_role
Luis Villa (@…): „Even things that a few years ago I would have taken as utter gospel, like "#Wikipedia is the most important thing humanity has ever built together", are somewhat in question: Wikipedia may soon be important in the same way newspaper…
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: #blackmirror?
It seems that we're near
Any presentation that I can somehow tie back to Claude Elwood Shannon is going to be a good presentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
One of the sidewalk gardens on my block has something coming up with Oxalis leaves that seem too big to be the bad Oxalis (Bermuda buttercup). I hope it's somehow redwood sorrel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_oregana
but I don't know how that could be …
@… Article on Thomas Pynchon, the novelist, mostly because it's often hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon
Nei Paesi Bassi un centro sociale ex occupato prevede di comprare l'edificio (dal comune) per 1,7 M€.
#Milano il
Just learned from @… 's presentation (https://videolectures.net/videos/iswc2025_nara_vrandecic_wikipedia_future) that there is a
Someday soon, all the names of all the things will be taken by LLMs. Do you want to talk to the north wind? Ask Mistral. Have you wondered if there's life out there? Ask Galactica. Fancy amazons? Download Amazon Nova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_model…
Jemand hat eine Stadt aus Wikipedia-Artikeln gebaut und ihr könnt dort durchfliegen:
#wikipedia
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
Enjoy this 2019 remake of Freestyler by the Bombfunk MCs featuring a new heroine, updated technology and a familiar cast.
I didn't know this existed and the video is a really great homage. More than just a remake (but unfortunately also basically an ad according to wikipedia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLH2zNdXsmA
For some reason have to think of the final scene in The Wave (1981)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
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…
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/…
Morgen (Samstag 18. April) kommt der #Wikipedia25 Bus von @… nach #Stuttgart an die @…
#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.
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…
"Norris gehört der evangelikal geprägten christlichen Rechten in den USA an. Er ist Anhänger des Kreationismus und hält die Evolutionstheorie für falsch."
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
Not every number is okay. Some are even ILLEGAL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_numbers
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Hunderttausende Links: Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today nach Cyberangriff
dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph
liebes tagebuch, in #england heißt luisa angela.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_ist_hier &
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
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…
On March 3 there will be a total Lunar Eclipse, visible from the western US!
Attached my photos from an eclipse in 2022.
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2026_lunar_eclipse
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
The fact that so many - including Wikipedia - rely on a shady website that (unsurprisingly?) is doing some really shady stuff recently shines a light on major shortcomings of newspaper websites: they want your data to share it with 900 "partners", are nevertheless full of ads and every redesign breaks deep links to their articles.
Like Napster/Limewire before, archive.today provides a service that solves an actual need of many Internet users.
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…
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.
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_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:/…
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…
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
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…
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…
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:/…
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 960 nodes and 1308 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps