2026-02-13 09:35:00
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.
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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.
gender-affirming kinetic bombardment
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 @…
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)
Finde, vor Unterrichtsbeginn sollte hier jetzt immer "Berliner Luft" gesungen werden!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalhymne
"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
TIL: DIN 2137-01:2023-08 aka „Erweiterte Tastaturbelegung 1“ [de-E1].
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung)
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…
@… May there never come such a time of famine that we will need to eat this 😬 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svið
I heard from a colleague that a system was just identified with a y2k bug.
Wait, how is that possible?!
A system was using 2 digits to store and transmit the year. To resolve the initial y2k problem, the system employed the date window technique, where that window ended with 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da…
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
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:/…
"This is a **list of rice dishes** from all over the world".
See also: "Fool's errand". 🙄
#sarcasm #Wikipedia #futility
Mokélé-mbembé — Wikipédia
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mok%A9lé-mbembé
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 …
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
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…
One thing I like to do is to compare the articles in different Wikipedia language editions about the same topic (I know, I'm a nerd). My daughter was watching me, and then she suggested a topic and that we should ask an AI to help.
She suggested YouTuber Technoblade, whose article is available in 35 language editions of Wikipedia, and I chose Gemini since I got a free subscription for its paid-tier service.
Since all are tired of AI dialogs, it is radically edited. Full dialo…
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.
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…
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
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
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
"Am 5. März auf #Wikipedia exzellenter Artikel": das #Zitat
https://de.wikipedia.org/w…
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
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…
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…
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
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://
Fernleihe des Internet Archive (@…) funktioniert
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/252272
Einer der Gründe für hohe Spritpreise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
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
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
And now the White House is full to the brim of PDF files.
See what you did, Adobe? Are you happy with yourself?
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116219534752388271
Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.
Republican "Southern Strategy":
Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]
Ein #Informatiker-Gag aus meiner Studienzeit:
"Du sprichst heute in einer Sprache vom Typ 2."
"Häh?"
"Kontextfrei."
Hint: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky-
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_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://
TIL about Numbered Musical Notation, also called often Chinese Musical Notation, and for melodic stuff, it's really easy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation
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.
Juist Nederland zou zich vanuit de historie gezien kwaad moeten maken over tolheffing in de straat van Hormuz die Trump nu heeft afgesproken. Jetten heeft in ieder geval een onderwerp voor aan tafel bij Trump...
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_liberum
“#AI” translations are ruining #Wikipedia
https://www.osnews.com/story/144567/ai-tra
In Every Language, given ‘music’ to search international WikiPedia, gives all sorts of things from culture to culture, but given ‘Jazz’? You tell me if there isn’t a distinct global international transnational statement given by these results!
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/81084667537
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
#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]
Red is the new black today! I continue to be surprised that Iran has not yet run out of increasingly angrier flags to raise. It's like they read the Wikipedia article on maritime flag etiquette and thought it would be really cool to do something like that with their buildings to reflect how pissed off they are.
I keep looking at logos on cars and not recognizing which brand is which. I’m curious enough that I’m going to have to do a lookup on something like Wikipedia of what all the big car companies have their logos as
Posted without comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_fad
Heute vor 86 Jahren, 09.04.1940: Operation #Weserübung - der deutsche Überfall auf #Dänemark und #Norwegen.
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/116199098987697859
Komt er dan eindelijk meer beweging in de smartphone markt?
Volla op Wikipedia:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volla_(bedrijf)
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 wonder why it has taken me so many decades to learn the way of the T-post?
I have wandered for too long solely in the lands of the weaker U-post.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Tpost1.jpg
I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
When you're at home waiting for someone's plane to take off at the nearby airport, what do you do to occupy yourself while you are waiting?
I know some people doom-scroll social media... some watch a show... some read...
(Me? I... edit #Wikipedia ! 😀 (And I'm *serious*! ))
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_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://
Hey, remember when the W Bushies made that "Most wanted card deck"?
I wonder if the folks in Iran are making a similar deck - but with US faces and names on 'em?
I can guess who is the Ace of Spades, but who comes next? Hogsbreath/Whiskey Pete? JDV? Miller? Jarad K.? ??
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://
"#Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article."
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
This used to be a favorite game at IETF meetings...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)
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…
das hier könnte mein neues hobby werden
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewige_Suppe
Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…
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_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
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…
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_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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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_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
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:/…
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 397635 nodes and 1031378 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
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 3571 nodes and 17046 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, 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…
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…
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
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 52214 nodes and 3623678 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…
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 64347 nodes and 1397072 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/n…