#Kaggle and the #Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.

https://blog.google/technology/developers/kaggle-wikimedia/

Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community for data scientists and machine learning practitioners under Google LLC.

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data

https://blog.google/technology/developers/kaggle-wikimedia/

I just donated to @wikimediafoundation and you should too

Who Owns Free Knowledge?
Last week, digital researchers and free knowledge practitioners came together at the Weizenbaum Institute to examine the power hierarchies embedded in free knowledge today, and to imagine a more just future of the commons. It was a wonderful conference, with @wikimediaDE full of enlightening thoughts and new questions.

Read the full report here: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/who-owns-free-knowledge-report/

OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power #Wikimedia #DigitalSpaces #Commons #Platforms #Culture

Für universitäre Sammlungen spielt das Wikiversum eine immer größere Rolle, z. B. um Daten zu veröffentlichen & zu vernetzen.
Wer einen Einblick bekommen möchte in die Arbeit mit Wiki-Projekten, ist daher herzlich zu unserem Workshop eingeladen!
Arbeit mit Wiki-Projekten: Frauen- & Kolonialgeschichte in Wikimedia Commons sichtbar machen
13. Mai
10-15:30 Uhr
Stadtbibliothek Erlangen
Anmeldung: https://sammlungen.io/termine/workshop-frauen-und-kolonialgeschichte-in-wikimedia
#Wikidata #Sammlungen #SODaZentrum #Wikimedia

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

#bots #crawlers #wikimedia

via #nonostantement

What do folks think about the "Edge Uniques" cookie being proposed for Wikimedia wikis?

There is a write up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edge_Uniques and a blog post at https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/09/using-privacy-engineering-to-enable-modern-usability-testing-and-defend-against-network-attacks/ where you can start exploring the topic if it is new to you.

AI Crawlers Are Harming #Wikimedia, Bringing #OpenSource Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The #OpenWeb At Risk - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/10/ai-crawlers-are-harming-wikimedia-bringing-open-source-sites-to-their-knees-and-putting-the-open-web-at-risk/ more bad stuff from #ai

The old Jewish cemetery near Waibstadt, Germany. The gravestones in this part date from the 19th century; the photo shows a typical section of that part of the cemetery.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waibstadt_-_J%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_-_mittlerer_Teil_-_Ansicht_vom_Hauptweg_1.jpg

How crawlers impact the operations of the #Wikimedia projects
Web crawlers collecting training data for #AI models are overwhelming #Wikipedia's infrastructure, with bot traffic growing exponentially since early 2024, according to the #WikimediaFoundation. According to data released April 1, bandwidth for multimedia content has surged 50% since January, primarily from automated programs scraping #WikimediaCommons' 144 million openly licensed media files.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

La Fondation #Wikimedia, qui héberge #Wikipédia et #Wikidata, compte 700 salariés et contractuels :
- 82 % vivent hors de San Francisco
- près de la moitié habite hors des États-Unis
- ils sont dans 54 pays

#Wikimedia #LGBT+ welcomes its first staff members - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/07/wikimedia-lgbt-welcomes-its-first-staff-members/ #trump will be delighted

Do you support @wikipedia?

Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the #Commons, Conference by #Weizenbaum & #Wikimedia, Berlin, Thursday 10 April. Join me for a barcamp session on the future of public service media in the online age and how it relates to #Fediverse and Wikimedia.
https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/konferenz-who-owns-free-knowledge/

Verkkosivustoilla on uusi ongelma: tekoälyfirmojen botit kahlaavat suosittuja verkkosivustoja läpi jatkuvasti, eivätkä ne kunnioita mitään sääntöjä

Tämä nostaa verkkosivustojen ylläpidon kuluja merkittävästi. Jopa Wikipedia on pulassa bottiarmeijoiden kanssa - ne haukkaavat nyt jopa 65% kaikesta Wikipedian palvelinkapasiteetista.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/06/verkkosivustot-hukkuvat-tekoalybottien-liikenteeseen

"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."

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects – Diff

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

Vi siete mai chiesti quale impatto hanno i crawler dei #LLM sulle infrastrutture di rete e su chi pubblica contenuti?

Un interessante articolo, e probabile primo capitolo di una nuova storia destinata a fornire esempio è quello pubblicato dalla #Wikimedia Foundation qui:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

CPOD from 2021/01/26

Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) in the environmental protection area of the Tietê River in São Paulo state, Brazil.

Artist: Clodomiro Esteves Junior; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work

See explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capivara(Hydrochoerus_hydrochaeris).jpg

Image du 4 avril :

Le Dôme du Rocher sur le mont du Temple à Jérusalem.

License : GFDL 1.2
Artiste : Ralf Roletschek
Crédits : Own work

I just saw that I have exceeded half a million total edits on all #Wikimedia projects! (I started contributing in late 2002.)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Seav

Granted, 95% of these are on #WikimediaCommons and #Wikidata where I use tools like QuickStatements (by @magnusmanske) and Cat-a-lot that let users quickly rack up edits. But I think my nearly 20000 edits on the English #Wikipedia is respectable.