"Imagine a world in which every single person on the pl…
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.
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, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
The Depths of Wikipedians—Asterisk
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
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.
How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)
The Wikimedia Foundation’s chief technology and product officer explains how she helps manage one of the most visited sites in the world in the age of generative AI.
Research, Attention, and Manipulation
Questionable articles can quietly move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice.
How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising
Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.
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.
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.
Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence
Over the past decade, the rise of the Internet has enabled the emergence of surprising new forms of collective intelligence. Examples include Google, Wikipedia,
The Cloister Web: Reshaping the Political Maidan
The advent of the "Cloister Web," a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound shift in our intellectual and political landscapes.
Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize
TJ
In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.
