akolbe

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Wikimedia Foundation hired the union busters its own encyclopedia warned about(medium.com)
11 points by akolbe 1mo ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 2mo ago
You can find the Wikimedia expenses breakdown from the 2024/2025 Auditors' Report here: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wiki...
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by akolbe 2mo ago
Yes, that is a good example. I used to be cynical about these uses of money until I met a 70-year-old volunteer who regularly attends international cycling championships to take pictures of the cyclists. She is totally devoted to documentin
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by akolbe 2mo ago
Well, Wikimedia does have an Endowment, currently valued at $169 million. See Form 990: https://wikimediaendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20... This is in addition to assets of around $300 millio
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Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm(en.wikipedia.org)
357 points by akolbe 2mo ago|349 comments
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by akolbe 10mo ago
One good thing is that unlike AI, Wikipedia at least allows you to see how an article grew. Yes, for the most part you only see pseudonyms in the edit history, but they represent individual editors with discernible interests and biases, whe
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Epstein email exchanges planned Wikipedia strategy, edits and reported progress(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by akolbe 10mo ago|2 comments
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AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by akolbe 10mo ago|1 comments
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How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akolbe 1y ago|0 comments
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Heritage Foundation plans to identify and target Wikipedia editors(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia-article-writing AI less "prone to reasoning errors" than human editors(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Storm: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts"(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 2y ago
Hasidic teaching stories are charming. Here is one: When Rabbi Zusha was on his deathbed, his students found him in great distress. They tried to comfort him by telling him that he was almost as wise as Moses, so he was sure to be judged po
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by akolbe 2y ago
Absolutely. Same with the favelas – locals are safer than strangers. Incidentally, the UK government website contains specific warnings about using GPS navigation in Brazil: --------- The security situation in many favelas is unpredictable.
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by akolbe 2y ago
Mm. Google Maps will sometimes confidently suggest roads which without that recommendation would have seemed quite unsuitable. So people put their instincts aside and think Google must know better ... only to regret it later. It would be he
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Wikimedia community ratifies Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation vetoes it(en.wikipedia.org)
38 points by akolbe 2y ago|10 comments
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Internet users debate Wikipedia image policy over Trump raised-fist photo(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer(futurism.com)
2 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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The lore of Kalloor(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022–2023(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 2y ago|0 comments
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Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure(en.wikipedia.org)
48 points by akolbe 2y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by akolbe 2y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia readers see broken pages due to disabled graph extension(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by akolbe 2y ago|1 comments
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Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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How low can the paid editing scammers go?(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian government(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Nice. I think the key thing here is, or was, the mix: the two activities complementing each other. Also, perhaps, the knowledge that both were temporary and meant to lead to other, or better, things.
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by akolbe 3y ago
Right; there is an element of satisfaction that comes from doing a job well that is relatively independent of the kind of job it is. In a way, that kind of enjoyment is actually more important than extrinsic rewards – it actually is your

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