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.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Creepy Wikipedia - Lemmy.World
#### A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust image [https://i.imgur.com/82WfIgF.png] ##### Guidelines: 1. Follow the Code of Conduct [https://legal.lemmy.world/] 2. Do NOT report posts YOU don’t consider creepy 3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only 4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis 5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails. 6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it’s in the original article’s title). ##### Mandatory: If you didn’t find an article “creepy,” you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn’t find it creepy image [https://i.imgur.com/WWq2agj.gif]
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.
Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
The Internet has so many cesspools, it's surprising to see what happens behind the scenes at Wikipedia.
List of Wikipedia controversies
Wikipedia has had many controversies since its inception in 2001. Wikipedia's open-editing model, which allows any user to edit its encyclopedic pages, has led to concerns such as the quality of writing, the amount of vandalism, and the accuracy of information on the project. Media have covered controversial events related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Common subjects of coverage include false information, public figures, corporations for which they have a conflict of interest, paid Wikipedia editing, and interactions between Wikipedia users and public figures.
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Text generated by large language models (LLMs)[a] often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited,[b] save for these two exceptions:
Research, Attention, and Manipulation
Questionable articles can quietly move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice.
Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday – Wikimedia Foundation
Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who make the backbone of knowledge on the internet what it is today.
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.
homepages.news — News Homepages documentation
An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages
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.
Today is the official launch of lichen.wiki in the @atmosphere.community !! It’s an open source collaborative website built on @atproto.com, the decentralized protocol behind Bluesky You can create wikis, add markdown notes, and link them together with internal links!
Lichen
lichen.wikisome of the editing I've been doing for @wikipedia.org got covered by in Everything in Moderation, a newsletter by @benwhitelaw.bsky.social! There is still a lot to do, and if there's one thing wiki and atproto have taught me: WE CAN JUST DO THINGS! everythinginmoderation.co/trust-safety-wikipedia-thon/
Why T&S needs a Wikipedia-thon
www.everythinginmoderation.coToday is the official launch of lichen.wiki in the @atmosphere.community !! It’s an open source collaborative website built on @atproto.com, the decentralized protocol behind Bluesky You can create wikis, add markdown notes, and link them together with internal links!
Lichen
lichen.wiki
