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Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.
It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
Y a donc un journaliste du Point qui tranquillou décide d’outer un contributeur #Wikipedia dans la presse et à son employeur, parce qu’il a fait des modifications qui lui plaisent pas https://w.wiki/D6eR
On this day in 2000, Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, and predecessor of Wikipedia, was launched.
"Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias."
Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.
"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
What a nice surprise to discover ⁂ featured on the #wikipedia article for the #fediverse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
#FediverseSymbol