@seav@en.osm.town2026-07-06 14:34:43
Hmmm. This is a pretty decent take on the current state of #Wikipedia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html
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@seav@en.osm.town2026-07-06 14:34:43
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-06-26 09:18:21
Am 26. Juni auf #Wikipedia exzellenter Artikel: Anonymes Werk.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Feedobjekt/featured/20260626000000/de
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-04-17 08:45:55
Morgen (Samstag 18. April) kommt der #Wikipedia25 Bus von @… nach #Stuttgart an die @…
@puhuri@mastodon.social2026-05-26 16:06:53
Tämän päivän #wikipedia`löytö oli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number jolle ei ollut suomenkielistä sivua.
Nuorena elektroniikkarakentajana tuli ihmeteltyä esimerkiksi vast…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-07-06 02:28:44
It’s a good way to end a day when I stumble upon a #Wikipedia article that I can easily update to have more current info! 🎉
(The moment of reading an article and realizing “hey, I have seen something more recent that isn’t here!” And then going and finding some reliable sources and adding content…)
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-07-12 07:15:40
There is no article about Winfried Bruns on #Wikipedia ??
He is mentioned in many pages, e.g. the one on depth: #math
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-06-27 13:58:56
Since the beginning of this week – following hard work by volunteers and the approval by the Wikimedia language committee – there’s now a #Wikipedia in the Interslavic (medžuslovjansky / меджусловјанскы) language.
https://isv.w…
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-04-25 15:59:04
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…
@seav@en.osm.town2026-05-03 20:01:35
Say what you want about #SpiritAirlines and their recent closure, but they apparently have never had a crash in their 33-year history according to #Wikipedia:
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-04-27 16:52:14
am 9.5. kommt der #wikipedia-#bus von @wikimediaDE@wikimedia.de nach #münster:
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-07-12 07:08:19
Searched #Wikipedia for my name and found that there was a Thomas Kahle on Danmarks Næste Topmodel Season 6. He made it to Episode 9!
But in the comments below it says:
Thomas Kahle did not modeling after the show. (sic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmarks_Næste_Topmodel_season_6
@seav@en.osm.town2026-05-28 08:31:33
Yeesh. I tried to do an article merge on the Spanish #Wikipedia because it somehow ended up with duplicate articles on the same subject.
Obviously this is pretty hard to do because I barely understand #Spanish and I did the mistake of turning one page into a redirect which is apparently a no-no judg…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-05-31 14:22:47
Dariusz Jemielniak, "#Wikipedia at 25: The Encyclopedia That Might Not Last" in Computer, vol. 59, no. 05, pp. 124-128, May 2026
https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2026.3667927 CC-By Attribution 4.…
@Carwil@mastodon.online2026-05-15 17:18:47
One typical use of AI coding assistants in my work right now: generating locator maps for Bolivian municipalities on #Wikipedia with Posit AI, R, sf package, and public data.
The process was not fast, but now I'm enjoying the power of code to churn out all 339 of these.
![A text-heavy screen from an RStudio IDE showing progress towards uploading. There are 44 lines like this:
[ 2/320] OK Azurduy muni locator map.svg (ETA 30 min)
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[ 44/320] OK Colomi muni locator map.svg (ETA 52 min)](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/579/689/965/681/564/original/7d73d3b314cbf56a.png)
@seav@en.osm.town2026-06-19 04:42:37
Oh boy. The #Wikipedia article on the Iran war lists “Iranian victory” as the war’s result on the article infobox. (But this is tagged as disputed and there’s a lively discussion on the article’s talk page.)
I’m sure this will not help with the very dim view of Wikipedia already held by conservative, MAGA, and Israel-allied sections in the United States and Israel. 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-04-24 22:53:31
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…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-06-19 01:43:17
RE: #Wikipedia Talk …
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-05-25 19:21:46
"Glitches, Leaks, and Traces: #Wikipedia’s Accidental Queer Archive" by Jae Kim @ *The iJournal*
https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v11i2.47513
@pre@boing.world2026-05-27 11:51:31
No more donations to Wikipedia until their entire staff is unionized then. Ideally also the management fired.
#wikipedia #unions
@seav@en.osm.town2026-06-27 07:51:11
I have a couple of images promoted to featured picture status on the English #Wikipedia. But I had not explored similar processes on #WikimediaCommons.
Well, I tried nominating my photo of a historical marker for the quality images guidelines and it just got promoted! 🎉
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-06-17 09:20:47
New roommate #wikipedia #babyglobe
@seav@en.osm.town2026-06-24 06:13:47
RE: #Wikipedia’s founding and its early years in this piece is pretty good, a…