404 Media: The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
404 Media: The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes. “A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, ‘a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced,...
View ArticleFast Company: This map-Wikipedia mashup does something Google Maps can’t
Fast Company: This map-Wikipedia mashup does something Google Maps can’t. “Wikipedia doesn’t have a simple map-driven interface option—a way to explore the world of info it offers based on where you...
View ArticleStudy: Wikipedia largely resilient to misinformation surrounding the...
University of Michigan: Study: Wikipedia largely resilient to misinformation surrounding the Russia-Ukraine War. “How did Wikipedia hold up during the first year of the Russia-Ukraine War – a conflict...
View ArticleWikimedia Foundation: Announcing English Wikipedia’s most popular articles of...
Wikimedia Foundation: Announcing English Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2024. “Its content is a reflection of all the people who live on our planet—its story is your story, your interests, your...
View ArticleCalishat: Tracing a Slopline from Wikipedia to YouTube
Calishat: Tracing a Slopline from Wikipedia to YouTube. “Have y’all heard the term “slop” as applied to Internet fare? Hastily-made, usually crappy content (often AI-assisted) meant to make a few bucks...
View ArticleWikipedia and YouTube: A Beautiful Search Mashup (Calishat)
Calishat: Wikipedia and YouTube: A Beautiful Search Mashup. “Earlier this week I tried putting together Wikipedia and YouTube to see if I could trace suddenly-popular Wikipedia topics to AI-generated...
View ArticleCalishat: Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata
Calishat: Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata. “My obsession with YouTube search has entered its second week. This time I’m playing with a way to browse YouTube channels while using Wikidata as...
View ArticleScientific American: Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity
Scientific American: Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity. “In this lexicon, a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics. A hunter, in contrast,...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins University: Finding hidden biases in Wikipedia’s multilingual...
Johns Hopkins University: Finding hidden biases in Wikipedia’s multilingual content. “Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia’s multilingual content, according to a team of...
View ArticleCalishat: Expanding Wikipedia Seismograph Into a Related Concept Explorer
Calishat: Expanding Wikipedia Seismograph Into a Related Concept Explorer. “I’ve been spending the weekend expanding Wikipedia Seismograph. Before it used Wikipedia page view spikes to create...
View ArticleFast Company: This website combines Wikipedia and TikTok to fight doomscrolling
Fast Company: This website combines Wikipedia and TikTok to fight doomscrolling. “If you’re the type to instinctively pull up Wikipedia to fact-check anything and everything, this website is made for...
View ArticleCalishat: SearchTweaks.com Updated – 16 Free Tools for Better Web Search
Calishat: SearchTweaks.com Updated – 16 Free Tools for Better Web Search. “I learned so much overhauling WikiTwister that I immediately came up with several ideas for improving SearchTweaks, my...
View ArticleLifehacker: This Tool Turns Any Wikipedia Topic Into an Interactive Timeline
Lifehacker: This Tool Turns Any Wikipedia Topic Into an Interactive Timeline. “It can be useful, while studying any topic, to get an overview of when major events happened relative to each other....
View ArticleThe Register: Wikipedia’s overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
The Register: Wikipedia’s overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden. “Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online...
View ArticleNow on Kaggle: Wikipedia Structured Contents
Now available on Kaggle: Wikipedia Structured Contents. It’s in early beta. “This dataset contains all articles of the English and French language editions of Wikipedia, pre-parsed and outputted as...
View ArticleExclusive: Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia’s Tax-Exempt Status...
The Free Press: Exclusive: Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia’s Tax-Exempt Status. “Ed Martin, the firebrand Republican activist whom President Donald Trump picked to be the top prosecutor in...
View ArticleTechCrunch: Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers
TechCrunch: Wikipedia says it will use AI, but not to replace human volunteers. “The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not...
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