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Wer hat eigentlich den #Wikipedia-Artikel vom Neonazi-Schlägertrupp BFC Dynamo schön-retuschiert? Laut Wikipedia ist die Fangruppe "Gegengerade" angeblich "linksgerichtet" – die aber schreiben auf ihrer Website: "Aber uns alle eint die Verehrung von Adolf […] und die Liebe zum ruhmreichen BFC Dynamo!"

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@Data_is Wait? Woher kommt die Befürchtigung, dass #Wikipedia verschwinden könnte.

Ich verstehe die Idee, die Hashes zu sichern, um Manipulation nachzuweisen, aber wäre es nicht klüger den Inhalt zu sichern. Die englische Wikipedia schlägt wohl mit 24GB zu Buche: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

Ein vollständiger Mirror mit Versionsgeschichte böte echte Resilienz

en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:Size of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

Après la tornade du mois de mars, nos activités du mois d'avril seront un peu moins nombreuses. Inscrivez-vous et rejoignez-nous, c'est gratuit et vous découvrirez une formidable communauté pour vous accompagner dans la réduction du biais de genre sur @wikipedia_fr !

Avec Librairie Violette and Co , Médiathèque Marguerite Yourcenar , Photo Elysée , @ledeuxiemetexte , @Wikimedia_Fr , @WikimediaCH

Toutes les infos sur : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:L

#Wikipedia #BiaisDeGenre #Féminisme

🚨 AI vs. Wikipedia

Dal 2024 i crawler AI hanno fatto +50% traffico su #Wikipedia rallentando i loro server: hdblog.it/tecnologia/articoli/

Intanto nel #Fediverso i post vecchi (specie con media) gravano su tutti i server e sono bersaglio di scraper

🛠 potrebbe aiutare cancellare i propri contenuti vecchi su Mastodon: mastodon.uno/statuses_cleanup

I server consumano energia e ogni foto può pesare su centinaia di server #mastodon federati

🌍 Ogni byte risparmiato = meno costi e minor impatto ambientale

Here's a little script I wrote for working with #Wikipedia data dumps. Use this to:

1. Get information about the dump (specifically the total size of all files that are part of a dump).
2. Download all files in the dump, and verify the checksums.

For both use cases, the script currently *only* supports the dumps with the complete edit history.

github.com/KBNLresearch/wikipe

Utility scripts for working with Wikipedia data dumps - KBNLresearch/wikipedia-utils
GitHubGitHub - KBNLresearch/wikipedia-utils: Utility scripts for working with Wikipedia data dumpsUtility scripts for working with Wikipedia data dumps - KBNLresearch/wikipedia-utils

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Aston Martin Vanquish ✧

The 2012 Aston Martin Vanquish was the second generation of the Vanquish, a grand touring car. It was produced between 2012 and 2018 by the British carmaker Aston Martin. It succeeded the DBS, resurrected the name of the 2001–2007 model, and was available as both a coupe and a convertible, the latter known as the Volante. The V...

#DBS #England #Gaydon #Warwickshire #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Ma

65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."

diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/

Diff · How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projectsSince the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

If you're fluent in Hungarian and want a low-risk, long-term-useful open-knowledge-based way to contribute to organising resistance against authoritarianism in Hungary, consider starting the Hungarian language #Wikipedia [1] article about the Hungarian legal system. Currently it looks like there are only en, fr, and uk language versions [2][3].

#OpenKnowledge #HuWikipedia #HuLaw

[1] hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezd%C5%
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_H
[3] wikidata.org/wiki/Q16630110

hu.wikipedia.orgWikipédia, a szabad enciklopédia