Notices tagged with wikipedia
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I hadn't seen this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
#Wikipedia #spending_frenzy
(I note that this is the opinion of one participant, not necessarily objectively true.)
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Just reading an article about #Mozilla's out-of-control administration costs and see some grumbles about #Wikimedia / #Wikipedia there also. http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
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According to @simsa03, #Wikimedia Foundation has USD$111M in the bank. https://pleroma.site/objects/f97dbb44-c697-45ad-842f-e31ba2c3c4ce
Yet, #Wikipedia is constantly begging for more. There's only so much donation money available from the general public. By trying to hog it all for themselves, they're reducing the amount that is available to other causes, some of which may be equally or more worthy of support.
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That's interesting. So far, more than one of the anti-malaria drugs I've read about (on #Wikipedia ... I'm not at the level yet where I could read a study abstract and come away with any kind of high-level overview or feeling of understanding) have a statement to the effect "we don't really know how or why this works". Tonight's reading was http://status.hackerposse.com/url/221…
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Now someone else says it was a #regex issue that brought down #CloudFlare #DNS ... which also happened last year (2019-07-02, according to #Wikipedia). I have not gone looking for an authoritative source, so consider this an unconfirmed rumor.
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@moonman Twenty years ago? #Wikipedia says the #NES launched (US and European general release) in 1986, continuing until 1995. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System #Nintendo
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The #InternetArchive and #Wikipedia: "Weaving Books into the #Web" http://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/
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♻ Silverwizard @HippyWizard: #Wikipedia #deletionists are actively stupid and pro-ignorance, it's the only explanation ¶ via #Twitter, 'cos his #Friendica instance is down https://twitter.com/HippyWizard/status/901572815668826117
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But not on #Wikipedia.
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And, funny thing, I've been a #Wikipedia editor maybe longer than some #deletionists have been alive! Any 15yo with a Del key can play
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@bobjonkman Yeah, #deletionists and the #deletion_wars they spark are one reason a lot of people don't contribute to #Wikipedia. I know they prevent a lot of spam and self-promotion, but they may be too aggressive sometimes.
otability / significance requirements often boil down to "I haven't heard of it before, so it must not be significant."
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@bobjonkman Yeah, #deletionists and the #deletion_wars they spark are one reason a lot of people don't contribute to #Wikipedia. I know they prevent a lot of spam and self-promotion, but they may be too aggressive sometimes.
otability / significance requirements often boil down to "I haven't heard of it before, so it must not be significant."
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Annoyed by #Wikipedia #deletionists. Created article on @KWLinuxfest, tagged "request for *speedy* deletion" in 3 hrs, gone 4 hours later
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Here's a list of groups I'm subscribed to on the #skilledtests server that may need to be picked up by another instance: !fedgroups !snadmins !tzaf !lost !ostatus !friendica !not !peace !grrr !wiki !diaspora !chess !pumpio !redmatrix !twitter !wikipedia !noodles Copying this to the new !Fediverse group...
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@maloki It's a formal description of online "agents" (humans, machines, groups - the name is Friend Of A Friend and is designed to graph social relationships). Based on W3C "RDF" standard etc: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14830 and more on #Wikipedia: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14831 My #FOAF profile document (can be used as a seed to start crawling the !f…
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From today's "Did you know" at #Wikipedia:
»Did you know that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes (pictured), became famous during World War II, selling war bonds and entertaining children?»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tucker_%28squirrel%29
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I was wrong about the end result of the Wounded Knee Incident. http://url.federati.net/PaZnL [ #Wikipedia ] Case was dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct.
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The #Wikipedia #deletionists were the biggest complaint we had during a Q&A session in 2011 with then-Executive Director Sue Gardner. Nothing got changed, a Toronto Wikipedia users chapter was never set up, and shortly afterwards the Wikipedians mailing list was cancelled in favour of (Yahoo or Google) groups. I was never very active on Wikipedia, but after this even less so. https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurelrusswurm/albums/72157650655305999
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