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Saudi Arabia: Govt Agents Infiltrate Wikipedia, Independent Admins Put in Prison (dawnmena.org)

a year ago | akolbe | dawnmena.org | newest

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Why the Twitter files are in fact a big deal (jacobin.com)

a year ago | akolbe | jacobin.com | frontpage

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Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Grassy slopes in the Alps? European slopes' snow shortage in record warm winter (latimes.com)

a year ago | akolbe | latimes.com | newest

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Mobile Editing (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Ken Block: Rally driver and YouTuber killed in snowmobile accident (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | akolbe | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | best

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Wikimedia's Abstract Wikipedia project “at substantial risk of failure” (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Dark Risk of Large Language Models (wired.com)

a year ago | akolbe | wired.com | newest

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What If Your Mood Depends on the Bacteria in Your Gut? (cccb.org)

a year ago | akolbe | cccb.org | newest

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Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | akolbe | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia (slate.com)

a year ago | akolbe | slate.com | newest

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English Wikipedia editors: “We don't need no stinking banners” (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article (theconversation.com)

a year ago | akolbe | theconversation.com | newest

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The Fake Scorsese Film You Haven’t Seen. Or Have You? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | akolbe | nytimes.com | newest

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‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots? (theguardian.com)

a year ago | akolbe | theguardian.com | newest

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Crows Perform Mental ‘Recursion’ as Well as Kindergarten Kids (haaretz.com)

a year ago | akolbe | haaretz.com | newest

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Cats Trash Theory That They Followed First Farmers to Europe (haaretz.com)

a year ago | akolbe | haaretz.com | newest

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Why did one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges just collapse? (theguardian.com)

a year ago | akolbe | theguardian.com | newest

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Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners (twitter.com/wikiland)

a year ago | akolbe | twitter.com | best

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From Russia with WikiLove (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will help Wikipedia editors? (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | best

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How Quantum Theories Took over TikTok (slate.com)

a year ago | akolbe | slate.com | newest

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Transphobia on Wikipedia, comic book authors are indignant – ActuaBD (kjovi.com)

a year ago | akolbe | kjovi.com | newest

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If you use Wikipedia you've seen pop-ups like this and like me may have donated (threadreaderapp.com)

a year ago | akolbe | threadreaderapp.com | newest

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NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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The ACLU and the NSA may soon square off in the Supreme Court – over Wikipedia (grid.news)

a year ago | akolbe | grid.news | newest

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One of the Best-Preserved Dinosaurs of All Time Found in Canada

a year ago | akolbe | extremetech.com | newest

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Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved

a year ago | akolbe | twitter.com | best

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Tweezers based on a crow's beak can outperform traditional ones

a year ago | akolbe | newscientist.com | frontpage

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Crocodiles in the Sahara Desert: An Update of Distribution, Habitats and Status

a year ago | akolbe | nih.gov | newest

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What scientists have learnt from Covid lockdowns

a year ago | akolbe | nature.com | frontpage

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Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading

a year ago | akolbe | wikimedia.org | best

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Admins wanted on Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted, donations wanted everywhere

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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The dollar value of “official” external links

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Existential Loneliness of the Chicken

a year ago | akolbe | haaretz.com | newest

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Review of English Wikimedia fundraising emails

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Anywhere but here–China now insists the pandemic didn’t start within its borders

a year ago | akolbe | science.org | newest

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A long-running Wikipedia hoax and the problem of circular reporting

a year ago | akolbe | inputmag.com | frontpage

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Wikipedia’s Credibility Is Toast

a year ago | akolbe | wikipediocracy.com | frontpage

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Why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it

a year ago | akolbe | phys.org | frontpage

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How Do Songs Get Picked for TV?

a year ago | akolbe | vice.com | newest

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Surveys commissioned by 16th century Spanish king provide ecological snapshot

a year ago | akolbe | science.org | newest

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Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war – three stories

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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Youth Culture and Notability

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | newest

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First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley–impacts for ecosystem

a year ago | akolbe | science.org | newest

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The “Recession” Affair

a year ago | akolbe | wikipedia.org | best