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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver

This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, and Vancouver-related articles. The importance of these articles for new users, research, education, and the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the Member's Page.

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

homepages.news — News Homepages documentation

An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages

Wikipedia - Lemmy.World

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia. Rules: - Only links to Wikipedia permitted (an exception is made for news about Wikipedia, where outside news sources are permitted) - Please stick to the format “Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)” - Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails - On Casual Tuesdays, we allow submissions from wikis other than Wikipedia. Recommended: - Use the search box to see if someone has previously submitted an article. Some apps will also notify you if you are resubmitting an article previously shared on Lemmy.

Wikidata

the free knowledge base with 120,900,955 data entities that anyone can edit.

Wikidata

the free knowledge base with 120,900,955 data entities that anyone can edit.

Wikipedia:Database download

Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content to interested users. These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance). All text content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC-BY-SA), and most is additionally licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images and other files are available under different terms, as detailed on their description pages. For our advice about complying with these licenses, see Wikipedia:Copyrights.

Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup

Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup, a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of poorly written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.

Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.

I Built a Knowledge Base That Writes Itself. Here Is What Andrej Karpathy Got Right.

Andrej Karpathy posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases. I took his workflow, wired it into my Obsidian vault with Claude Code, and within an hour had 21 cross-linked wiki articles compiled from YouTube transcripts. Here is how it works and why it matters.