2026-01-15 06:04:01
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.
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.
Ein anderes Internet ist möglich
#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25
https://netzpol…
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:/…
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
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Today, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
Just learned from @… 's presentation (https://videolectures.net/videos/iswc2025_nara_vrandecic_wikipedia_future) that there is a
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
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TIL dass in Deutschland die Dezitonne (10 dt = 1t) eine gesetzliche Einheit ist.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne_(Einheit)
The recording of my @… keynote is available online:
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web -- 20 years of co-development, and the future
Drawing on the roots of @… and the Semantic Web, how they influenced each other during t…
Here's a GREAT and fascinating history Wikipedia page (431 references at the bottom).
Follow all its links. THAT will have you reading for a good while!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women_in_science
A short sci-fi story for the news of these few weeks (aka about the stupid attack on Iran) ...
"Superiority" by A. C. Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
To celebrate Wikipedia's 25 years (today!), I'm reading the article on the Nuremberg trials.
No reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
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.
@… May there never come such a time of famine that we will need to eat this 😬 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svið
Del hilo que acabo de retootear, no conocía la "Guerra del Whisky" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
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…
"This is a **list of rice dishes** from all over the world".
See also: "Fool's errand". 🙄
#sarcasm #Wikipedia #futility
Wikipedia at 25 -
"Wikipedia isn’t too big to fail. If volunteers keep dropping off, if people only complain about Wikipedia without once trying to edit it, then donations alone won’t move the needle."
if you are not already an editor, think about doing it!
…
gender-affirming kinetic bombardment
The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip
1965
The illustration is by Boris Artzybasheff who was a prolific artist, especially for commercial art.
Back when tech companies paid artists to make amazing artworks and didn't just steal their work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Artzybasheff
TIL about ncdu, a command line utility for checking disk usage that allows browsing folders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu This is great for me, as I always had to look up du parameters again and again when checking disk usage. HT @…
You've heard of James Joyce. You've heard of Samuel Beckett. You've heard of Carl Jung.
Have you heard of Lucia Joyce?
I had not, until this morning, when her life (and her FIFTY YEARS incarcerated in psychiatric institutions) was brought to my attention by an (of course) female friend.
If this story does not make you an all-men-are-bastards #feminist, you have no…
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 10285 nodes and 180916 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…
Ich lese in der Fachliteratur etwas von "Parosmia" und "Phantosmia" und frage die Wikipedia nach dem deutschen Begriff.
Wikipedia: "Parosmie" und "Phantosmie".
Danke. 🤡
In about 10 minutes, at 16:00 UTC, you can join the #Wikipedia 25th virtual birthday part live at https://www.youtube.com/live/C5rPmv27YzY
"Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
Which #Wikipedia of the future are you?
https://wikipedia25.org/en/which-wikipedia-of-the-future-are-you
TIL: DIN 2137-01:2023-08 aka „Erweiterte Tastaturbelegung 1“ [de-E1].
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung)
Remember when Joe McCarthy waved his "list" of communists? It was utter rubbish but a lot of people believed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip
Lars von #Capulcu definiert generative »KI« als Bullshit-Generatoren, wobei er Bullshit im Sinne von Harry G. Frankfurt versteht: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Vol…
Weiß jemand von einem #Reliefglobus mit Durchmesser mit mehreren Metern in Mitteleuropa?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus#Weitere_Globusarten
Ich würde gerne eine …
Meta Platforms acquired Moltbook on March 10, 2026. And the Competition authorities are having a very nice nap, isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltbook
Happy birthday @…
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifun
Expressions relatives au service militaire.
pour moi c'est assez complet, ça mérite sa place dans l'encyclopédie
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_militaire_en_France#Expressions_relatives_au_service
RE: #TIL A purposefully Scottish, private expedition studied Antarctica in parallel with Scott's Discovery expedition, establishing a manned meteorological Observatory that is still in operation.
And tried the musical taste of a penguin.
#wikipedia #Scotland
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.
25 Jahre Wikipedia: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz die Online-Enzyklopädie bedroht (vom Podcast „KI verstehen“). Mit @…
und @…
"Am 5. März auf #Wikipedia exzellenter Artikel": das #Zitat
https://de.wikipedia.org/w…
Sehr interessantes Unternehmen:
Gegründet um Feuerwaffen herzustellen, nach dem 1. Weltkrieg dann Fahrräder, seit 1969 eine Genossenschaft.
Erfolgreich. 🙂
Hoffe dass Duralex auch zu solch einem Beispiel für demokratisch gesteuerte Unternehmen wird.
Und dass dann weitere folgen.
https://de.wikipedia.…
After the Trump regime has been defeated, the people could perhaps subject their crimes to trials in an appropriate place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg,_Pennsylvania?wprov=sfti1
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…
Taking so many people in as wikipedia pages you feel anxious about becoming that defined
Revisit the project management triangle in the context of #AI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
So the basic idea is that quality is essentially co…
Some guy was like "Name one place where Socialism has worked?"
And someone else answered: "How about in Milwaukee you fucking dunce!"
Yup, Milwaukee is the home of Sewer Socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_socialism
Schwurbel tötet.
"Van Der Beek is stated to have attempted alternative, holistic options to treat the cancer before utilizing standard medicine."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Der_Beek
In case you wonder what #theology is like in 2026 AD ... this is the final (!) slide of the lecture "The Fate of Religions if #Aliens Arrived" - #FermiParadoxon.
Einer der Gründe für hohe Spritpreise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
Half of AI is radioactive toothpaste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad_Radioactive_Toothpaste
When radioactivity was first discovered, people went mad for it. Started putting it in everything with no understanding of the dangers. Now, radioactivity is real…
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…
Ah... what better way to start a Saturday morning at 5:20am then getting into a discussion of the capitalization of "Internet" on a #Wikipedia Talk page! 🤣
https://en.wik…
Happy U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day!
Oh the irony as the U.S. builds and fills concentration camps.
😳😐
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Hostage_and_Wrongful_Detainee_Day
In 1961, Sweden saw the world's first and only accident between a car and a submarine. Nobody was hurt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_between_a_car_and_a_submarine
¿Os acordšis de esto? No se puede usar o citar la wikipedia porque no es fiable blah blah (cuando tenía mšs información que cualquier enciclopedia).
Ahora: HAY que usar la IA, es el futuro. No aprendes, falla, alucina… pero todo eso se irš solucionando. ¡Úsalo! 👍
Qué curioso
It's a Velben good - intended for conspicious consumption to demonstrate to those who care that you are so rich the cost doesn't matter (or you are faking it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
In class today I discussed the Abilene Paradox but in my (very good) Texan drawl, and I can tell you that my students were NOT PREPARED FOR IT. (If they came to office hours, they'd know I have a cowboy hat, and a TX license plate hanging on my wall.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_p…
Ein #Informatiker-Gag aus meiner Studienzeit:
"Du sprichst heute in einer Sprache vom Typ 2."
"Häh?"
"Kontextfrei."
Hint: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky-
Biased review now I've returned the library book: you don't learn much about Putin or his mentality; you do learn about defence ministers vs. generals & who has power; there's many lists with numbers of troops in various brigades & divisions; brief summaries of various wars which are helpful only in combination with Wikipedia; you don't learn much about the Russian or Ukrainian peoples' reaction to wars, aside from the occasional anecdote which rather centres the author
Ich kann mich nicht an die allgemeine Empörung erinnern, als Ingrid van Bergen #Dschungelkönigin wurde (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_van_Bergen).
#PiDay
ln( 640320^3 744 )/(163)^0.5 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279...
till that last 9 it works, but then it continues with
72661...
rather than 50288... as π does. Nice hoax by Martin Gardner in 1975 [1]
wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
“#AI” translations are ruining #Wikipedia
https://www.osnews.com/story/144567/ai-tra
Mokélé-mbembé — Wikipédia
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mok%A9lé-mbembé
Do you know about the AI company who sold large-scale human behavior simulations and predictions to the military and government?
IN THE 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulmatics_Corporation
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
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:/…
Doing further research into the origins of the Abrahamic religions following my essay on The Claimants to the Tortured Land, I learn that by a supreme irony, #Israel itself is named after...
Drumroll....
A CANAANITE DEITY.
Yes, that's right. The name 'Israel' honours not יהוה, but El.
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://
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://
So I became lost in the depths of Wikipedia yesterday and read an article about a terrorist attack Vienna in the 1970s and the terrorists used…
…public transport (specifically, a tram) to go where they wanted to go.
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:/…
I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
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
Kommende Woche, am Freitag, den 20. März, bin ich in einer meiner absoluten Lieblingsstädte (Wien) in einem meiner absoluten Lieblingshackspaces (#Metalab) und darf etwas erzählen. Nämlich zu einem meiner absoluten Lieblingsthemen: #Wikipedia und
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_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_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
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
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…
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
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
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_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 85076 nodes and 861498 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps