Let's do this.
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That's the real crazy making for me right now. You can teach people things if you explain things to them.
But there is no desire to teach things. There is no desire to arrive at the truth. There is no desire to reckon with the mistakes of the past.
That makes me very uneasy.
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Today, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of @wikipedia.org, which for a quarter of a century has been collaboratively built by unpaid strangers on the internet.
Unfortunately, search on Wikipedia is only really good on the larger language wikis. For smaller language wikis, making search good turns into a massive undertaking per language, and there’s 300+ supported languages and only like 1.5 people working full time on this problem.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Congratulations!
Every time @hankgreen.bsky.social mentions Wikipedia I feel a little proud, but man I was not expecting a full on video about it
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The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25
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All the love for Richard and Andrew for averting a tragedy. I was there when it happened and Richard just casually walked up from behind and grabbed the dude. Respect.
This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The escalating attacks on Wikipedia from Elon Musk and other powerful figures on the American right follow a familiar pattern. First come the claims of bias, supported by cherry-picked or misrepresented examples. Then the demands for “balance”, which in practice mean giving equal weight to fringe views or demonstrably false claims. When these demands are refused, the attacks shift to the platform's legitimacy itself: its funding, its governance, its leaders, and its very right to exist as an independent entity. We've seen this playbook deployed against traditional media, with Trump labeling unfavorable coverage “fake news” while promoting outlets that parrot his claims. We've seen it in academia, where “viewpoint diversity” is weaponized to demand equal time for climate change denial or historical revisionism. And we've seen it in social media, where Musk himself spent $44 billion to seize control of Twitter after claiming it was biased against conservative views.
Wikipedia’s resilience to these tactics makes it both a model and a target. The very features that Musk and others criticize — its decentralized editing model, rigorous sourcing requirements, and nonprofit status — are what have allowed it to remain one of the internet’s most trusted resources. But these same features make it an obstacle to those who seek to control the narrative. Wikipedia faces real challenges: its relatively small editing community and difficulties attracting new editors, threats from AI-generated content,m and regulatory proposals that could restrict its functioning or threaten members of its editing community. m. Among them: decaying sourcing, the introduction of poor quality LLM-generated content into articles, and the reduced visibility of Wikipedia as people use LLMs trained on the site instead of the site itself. But as other information sources fall to acquisition, intimidation, or other pressure, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.
Attacks on Wikipedia from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.
Keeping Wikipedia available in hundreds of languages at no cost is not an easy feat.
It requires a sophisticated technological backbone and ongoing support from volunteers, readers, donors, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
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What a wild story. I'm glad you're still with us. Also, you failed highschool because you were addicted to editing Wikipedia? Absolutely gilded in my book. I currently work there and yeah we still have a lot of things that started off as like single git commit code dumps by drive-by volunteers
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not
I shared the link with my team internally :) Great job!
Wow! I'm one of the maintainers of the wiki eventstreams service that the game uses. I can the see sudden spike in connections to it on our metrics dashboard when this was posted 😆
If you want to host a database dump mirror that would be great!! Unsure about how you'd go about mirroring the actual website though, unless I guess you only do one language
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the cool thing about wikipedia is that elon musk can't just hire a whole team to rewrite the article about him
I remember when I was a kid feeling the fear and shame of sitting through lunch without having any food. But it was scarier to go to an adult for help so I just hid. Never want any child to go through that shame
I once sat in on an intro to python class which is a course only available to CS majors at that university. The professor had to repeatedly explain how to save a file.
