Read ➡️ Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales talks with TechInformed about content moderation, AI, and the principles of the open internet. techinformed.com/the-jimmy-wale…

Yearly reminder that your old passwords are less safe.

Anyone can write Wikipedia articles, but that does not mean they can write anything they want. Take a minute to learn how thousands of volunteers ensure that information on the site is accurate and comes from verifiable sources. #AWikiMinute ⬇️

Hablon User Group of Wikimedians in the Philippines meetup

Two dozen scientific, cultural, and historical organizations ... Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, and crossbench peers ... And +700 members of the public ... Call to exempt public interest projects from the #OnlineSafetyBill. Please read and retweet #forfreeknowledge!

“While estimates of its influence can vary, Wikipedia is probably the most important single source in the training of AI models.” As chatbots become more popular, The New York Times writes about the essential role that Wikipedia plays in training generative AI. ⬇️ nytimes.com/2023/07/18/mag…

Hey Josh Lim, your Bayani Fernando photo is all over the place without properly attributing you. For everyone's info, it is under CC-BY-SA license and the original photo can be seen here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baya… Proper attribution: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:C…

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Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him | Zoe Williams theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Many people visit Wikipedia on a daily basis, but it’s not always obvious what it takes to make that possible. Here are some clarifications on the Wikimedia Foundation: who we are, what we do, and why your donations matter. ⬇️

Wikipedia is not inherently hierarchical because anyone including you Elon have a say on what would be the contents of an article. Subject to concensus of course.

Happy 2024. Mickey Mouse will enter public domain.

"Wikibench: Community-Driven Data Curation for AI Evaluation on Wikipedia" (for e.g. vandalism-detecting models such as ORES) arxiv.org/html/2402.1414… meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

"54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists." pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

"Low-resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding Study" contributors struggle to find resources for low-resourced Wikipedia languages, and language technology support, like translation and spellcheck. (Nigatu et al, 2024) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

Dear young people, please reflect on the wonder of God’s love for us just the way we are, not the way society or we say we should be, but as we are with all our faults and our limitations. Trust in God because He is our Father who loves us. #YouthDay

Hablon Manila Meetup

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The Lord heeds the sinner's prayer, even at the end. By turning to the heart of God, the men and women of every age can find hope for salvation, even if “in the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died” (Wis 3:2).

The Hablon User Group at the 25th anniversary celebration of Wikipedia in Quezon City (with Michael Ong and bel ballesteros)