Notices tagged with wikimedia, page 2

Can someone on #wikimedia help me? My account works on wikipedia.org and login.wikimedia.org but not on commons.wikimedia.org and I have this really nice praying mantis photo I took and that I want to turn from restricted copyright into the free world... https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/310/723/583/634/436/original/43fe68d5050d5a74.jpg

wikimedia:

UNLIMITED WIKIPEDIA SIPHONING STARTING 100K USD PER YEAR. AND BRO, TRAIN WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH IT IT'S FREE CULTURE! LOL. CHECK OUR COLLAB WITH HUGGING FACE MY DUDES. AI4LYFE!

https://enterprise.wikimedia.com

also wikimedia:

oh noooes... nasty ai generated content is littering our commons, who has time on the weekend to volunteer and clean up wikipedia pages? *sniffle*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

what. a. circus.

#wikipedia #wikimedia #creativecommons #circleoflife

Es gibt das Rhein-Neckar-Wiki nun als Projekt für die #wirschaffenwas Freiwilligen-Woche: https://www.wir-schaffen-was.de/engagementboerse/projektdetails/regionales-wissen-erhalten.html

#rnwiki #freiwillig #ehrenamt #mithelfen #mitarbeit #wissen #regionales #wiki #wikipedia #wikimedia #rheinneckarwiki #stadtwiki #regiowiki

@BeAware @wikimediafoundation the more voices in the open knowledge world, the better. The Wikimedia movement has great projects read by millions each year, so I think they have an important role here and it is very aligned with their values. In a decentralized world, we don't need one single leadership.

I'm glad there are great organizations like W3C working on that. The more, the merrier.

#decentralization #wikimedia #leadership #W3C #activitypub

Couldn't @wikimediafoundation take the lead when it comes to social media decentralization?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Social_media#Couldn't_Wikimedia_take_the_lead_when_it_comes_to_social_media_decentralization

@eloquence @mathias

#decentralization #Mastodon #Fediverse #Wikimedia #X #disinformation #SocialMedia #Wikipedia #activitypub #opensource

Fun fact: Wikidata has now existed for the majority of Wikipedia’s lifetime. https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23%20How%20long%20Wikipedia%20has%20existed%20without%20and%20with%20Wikidata%2C%20and%20the%20date%20where%20both%20were%20equal.%0ASELECT%20%3FwikipediaStart%20%3FwikidataStart%20%3FwikipediaWithoutWikidata%20%3FwikipediaWithWikidata%20%3FdateWhereDaysWithoutEqualsDaysWith%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ52%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FwikipediaStart.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ2013%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FwikidataStart.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FwikidataStart%20-%20%3FwikipediaStart%20AS%20%3FwikipediaWithoutWikidata%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%3FwikidataStart%29%20AS%20%3FwikipediaWithWikidata%29%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FwikidataStart%20%2B%20STRDT%28CONCAT%28%22P%22%2C%20xsd%3Astring%28xsd%3Ainteger%28%3FwikipediaWithoutWikidata%29%29%2C%20%22D%22%29%2C%20xsd%3Aduration%29%20AS%20%3FdateWhereDaysWithoutEqualsDaysWith%29%0A%7D

#Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikimedia

New blog post: "Building a less terrible URL shortener" (for #Wikimedia projects)

https://blog.legoktm.com/2024/07/23/building-a-less-terrible-url-shortener.html

I started writing this blog post back in 2016 and never finished, so here it is, the basic principles behind the w.wiki URL shortener.

#XMPP #community sprint comes to an end

Developers of #Dino @dino, #Kaidan @kaidan, #Libervia @Goffi, #Monal @Monal, #Prose @prose, #Renga (#HaikuOS) and even #Debian and #ejabberd met in #Berlin to work on e.g. "#XEP-0394: #MessageMarkup", #OMEMO, and A/V calls.

Thanks to the #XSF @xmpp for sponsoring yesterday's dinner and very big thanks to #Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. @wikimediaDE for hosting us! 🙏

#Jabber #freeSoftware #digitalSovereignty

«Help us bring Internet to all»

Useful as well as educational information can be found on @wikipedia, among others. However, depending on the situation, even in the EU and USA, for example, you cannot access them offline. In this regard, you can use the free @kiwix tool developed by @WikimediaCH.

🐦⬛ https://kiwix.org

#freetoolfriday #freetools #wiki #offline #wikimedia #information #infomobil #infrastructure #internet #kiwix #mobile

Wikipedia mentions that it's Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the English version's main page, but to create an account on there and many of the Wikimedia Foundation's other projects you have to complete an inaccessible captcha. They offer an option for someone to create an account for you if you can't fill it in, but that's not good enough.
There's been a ticket open about this since 2006 according to the date stamp and nothing's been done.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845
#GAAD #Wikipedia #Wikimedia

With the encouraging keynote ”Science communication and Wikipedia: potentials and pitfalls“ Leonhard Dobusch @leonido today kicked off the conference
”Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication“.

Full program for the next two days: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/wiki/

#openscicomm #wikipedia #wikimedia #scicomm

A bit late, but the February newsletter is out!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Newsletter/2024-02

#newsletter #SDG #wikimedia

-- Version Française --

Bonjour à toustes,

Au cas où vous ne seriez pas au courant, les wikipédiens francophones sont en train de mettre en place des règles très transphobes pour s'assurer que toutes les biographies de personnes trans incluent leur necronyme même si elles n'étaient pas connues avant leur transition. Ces règles ont été approuvés par très peu de personnes ce qui démontre un entresoi. Toutes les voix n'allant pas dans leur sens ont été réduites au silence à tel point que des contributeurs wikipediens ont été bannis.

Par exemple, c'est le cas d'Andrea Furet (actrice française et concurrente de Miss France) qui n'était pas connue avant sa transition, ils ont exposé son necronyme sur le Wikipédia francophone et refusent de le retirer.

Dans tous les cas, il est très dangereux pour les personnes trans de voir leurs données privées (le fait qu'elles soient trans et leur necronyme sont des informations privées selon la loi Française) exposées sur Internet. Nous ne voulons pas que Wikipédia devienne un site de doxxing ciblant les personnes trans comme l'est Kiwifarms. Nous voulons protéger les personnes trans contre le harcèlement.

A ce jour, ils font également pression pour pouvoir mégenrer les personnes trans dans un futur sondage.

Nous avons essayé de faire comprendre aux Wikipédiens que ce n'était pas acceptable car cela met toutes les personnes trans en danger.
Nous avons échoué.

Nous voulons que la fondation Wikimedia soit informée de la situation et nous avons besoin de vous pour cela.
Nous pensons qu'un seul email ne sera pas suffisant pour que la fondation Wikimedia prenne position contre ce qui se passe dans le Wikipédia francophone.

Nous avons créé un modèle de mail qui peut servir à les interpeller.
Vous pouvez l'utiliser pour envoyer un mail au département juridique de la fondation Wikimedia à l'adresse legal@wikimedia.org

L'email ci-dessous est une suggestion mais vous pouvez le modifier à votre guise.

Aidez-nous à atteindre la fondation Wikimedia afin qu'elle soit bien consciente de la situation.

Merci à toutes les personnes trans et à leurs alliés qui prendront faits et actes contre la transphobie dans Wikipedia.

Le retoots sont tout doux et si vous pouviez diffuser ce message autant que possible (y compris sur d'autres réseaux sociaux) ce serait top !

#AffaireWikipediafr #WikipediaEstTransphobe
#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #Wikipediafr

-- email template follow / email dans le toot suivant --

Introducing Flickypedia, our first tool!

Our tech lead explains this simple (and good-looking) tool that gives users easy way to copy appropriately-licensed photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. It does duplicate checking, license checking, and the project includes a "Backfillr Bot" which goes and adds Flickr IDs to the 10M images from Flickr which are already on Wikimedia Commons.

Read all about it, we think it's really cool.

https://www.flickr.org/introducing-flickypedia/

#wikipedia #photography #wikimedia

#Wikimedia is hiring — https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5651681

NPR got a new CEO from Wikimedia Foundation. Katherine Maher starts at NPR on March 25, 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/katherine-maher-npr.html

#news #journalism #media #NPR #Wikimedia #CEO

Join #primeproduce for our First Annual #newyearseve Shell Drop on W54th St! (And #publicdomainday midnight film festival to follow!)

Doors at 9pm, and a special viewing of last year's marquee public domain film, Metropolis, starting at 10pm.

The descent of our ceremonial illuminated Cosmic Turtle over W54th St will come as the clock strikes twelve, to be followed by a midnight festival of films from 1928 legally entering the public domain on Jan 1! #nyc @internetarchive #wikimedia

I am disheartened to hear (unconfirmed?) reports that #Wikimedia Russia (a regional chapter) is going to be closing down. It appears this was prompted by a member of the board being declared a "foreign agent" by the Russian government.

https://w.wiki/8auh

@wikimediafoundation, @wikidata, @wikiresearch & @selenadeckelmann --> see this thread from @evan on how to integrate ActivtyPub into data on the Wikimedia platform...this is exactly the type of thing we have been chatting over online:

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia

https://indieweb.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/111603337972586683

Just noticed that the user contributions page on the English @wikipedia, #Wikimedia Commons, and other related projects now shows the number of edits and account creation date right at the top. Handy!

(And yes, in five days I'll hit 15 years as an editor on #Wikipedia 😁)