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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:43:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • Kunal Mehta
   • Julia Angwin

   @legoktm bravo @Julia .

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:43:47 JST Kunal Mehta

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     Julia Angwin describes journalism as having a trust crisis and that Wikipedia, by using citations/references, has built trust with its audience.

     #WikipediaDay

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 00:43:54 JST Kunal Mehta

     • Andrew Lih

     #WikipediaDay in NYC has started with @fuzheado explaining how the Statue of Liberty was also crowdsourced (the stained glass just so happens to be in the other room)

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:36 JST Børge

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     • Kunal Mehta
     • annie rauwerda

     @legoktm @annierau Well, now I feel old

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:37 JST Kunal Mehta

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     • annie rauwerda

     The first version of the "United States" article on #Wikipedia only had 14 states -- @annierau

     #WikipediaDay

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:39 JST Kunal Mehta

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     • annie rauwerda

     lol @annierau skipped introducing herself and referred the audience to the new #Wikipedia article on her

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Rauwerda

     #WikipediaDay

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:27:40 JST Kunal Mehta

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     yikes, "Section 230 is what protects tech companies..." [from what users post / not taking down things]

     No, that's the First Amendment!!

     https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

     (I got annoyed and missed the full original quote)

     #WikipediaDay

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:44:54 JST Kunal Mehta

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     UPenn Libraries has a potential public domain tracker, for serials that didn't renew copyright, and it's cross-linked with Wikidata and Wikipedia

     https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/backfile/wikipedia-serials

     #WikipediaDay #PublicDomain

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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:44:59 JST Kunal Mehta

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     • Harrison

     Interlude from the hacking room: @hdevine825 taking a photo of the inside of a #Framework laptop for the corresponding #Wikipedia article

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Computer

     #WikipediaDay

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 23:45:04 JST Kunal Mehta

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     Lightning talk intro: "I've been editing since 2005, 9k edits, and one block for edit warring, which was totally worth it"

     #WikipediaDay