new blog post: Migrating my tools to the Toolforge Build Service
https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/07/29/migrating-tools-to-buildservice/
new blog post: Migrating my tools to the Toolforge Build Service
https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/07/29/migrating-tools-to-buildservice/
Wikipedia on haastanut Britannian valtion oikeuteen
Wikipediaa operoiva Wikimedia Foundation vaatii muutoksia Britannian varsin jyrkkään Online Safety Act -lakiin. Nykymuodossaan laki asettaa Wikipedian kirjoittajat riskiin, jopa kuolemanvaaraan.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/07/28/wikipedia-haastoi-britannian-oikeuteen-online-safety-act-laki
This journey was rewarding. It also involved its share of me receiving hate and abuse -- some of which is publicly documented, the abusive posts still standing behind a "disturbing/ offensive language" warning. https://mastodon.social/@rohini/114924928826746857
That is also a story worth telling.
The fact remains that nobody can take this away from me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rohini
17 years. Proud Wikimedian. Much to reflect on. My Wiki CV is open for all to see (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rohini). All of the things in it have stories behind them, some documented, some undocumented, and some documented but obscure. I hope I can get around to writing them down soon.
(More detailed Wiki CV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rohini/Wiki_things)
I am a bit confused about the recent (last couple of months) inflow in open source projects of accounts new to the projects asking to assign issues to them. At first, I thought it was a GitHub exclusive issue, but now I have seen it in #Wikimedia Phabricator too, that comment even with quotation marks around it. Does anyone have any idea why this happens now?
#opensource
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
Globe & Mail: Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wikipedia-page-editors/
Heute Fotos von Kunst im öffentlichen Raum gemacht, aber ich "darf" sie nicht bearbeiten/hochladen, weil ich sie im Oktober für geplante Vorträge "Die Trilogie der #Wikimedia-Projekte" brauche: @wikicon (noch nicht bestätigt) & der "Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kunstwissenschaften + Wikipedia" https://w.wiki/ErPW
Foto: Sneak-Preview
la #WikiConvention est mentionnée dans le Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France #BBF https://a2s1g.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHTac9KnddoKsSUk1l/TsmgLAEdHCfs #Bibliothèques #Wikimedia
Maak het jezelf gemakkelijk als je even iets niet weet bij het werken op een Wikimediaproject zoals Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons of Wikidata!
Vind je antwoord op het Wikimedia Kennisplatform https://kennisplatform.wikimedia.nl
Results of the project briefly described. Conversion of a scanned text to structured data ( #Wikidata ), using #HTR ( #eScriptorim ) and #text2text #transformers
Funded by #Wikimedia.
#CzechAcademyOfSciences
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_versus_traditional_biographical_encyclopedias
Image du 24 juillet :
Composite image of Ganymede, the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter, taken by the Juno spacecraft on this day in 2021.
License : CC BY 2.0
Artiste : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Crédits : Ganymede - Perijove 34 Composite
Wir wollten heute eigentlich in die #Siebdruck-Werkstatt im K4 beim Hauptbahnhof #Nürnberg gehen, aber irgendwie war keiner da. Also haben wir stattdessen ein Café gesucht und uns Motive überlegt und ich hab sie gleich am iPad umgesetzt.
Die Neffen haben einen #AirbusA380 bestellt und dann sind wir irgendwie auf #Rochen oder #Oktopusse gekommen und am Ende hatten wir sehr viel Spaß mit der #SeeMonster Seite von #Wikimedia!
Jetzt wissen wir nicht, was wir zuerst drucken sollen!
Now the testimony for #Wikimedia : the network use increases (+50 % in the last year), partly from bots (not always AI bots).
Bots have broader interests than humans (they don't go to the most popular page of the day) so are less often served from cache. Bots make 35 % of the traffic but 65 % of the expensive [not from caches] traffic.
But like IETF, WIkimedia does not want to block: the goal is to make knowledge available.
Heavy users should download the dumps?
For all #WikimediaCommons people, I wrote a high-level overview of the copyright management on Commons. If you would like to take a look and see if I missed something vital, I would greatly appreciate it: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:CommonsDB_registry/Commons_copyright_managament_summary_for_IVIR
#Wikimedia #copyright
It’s 2025 and:
- There is still no vertical text site mode for #Wikimedia in any language using vertical text.
- #Wikipedia still forces “simplified” Chinese on browsers.
- There is still no true IDS or CangJie composition matrix for characters in #Unicode.
- SignWriting still has no proper #Unicode inclusion, no IDS analogue, no inventory of signs, and is still mostly written by mouse drag and drop in a mishmash of SVG and HTML.
- There is no proper SignWriting IME, such as a Rime schema.
To say this state of affairs is cultural propaganda by mass technic inertia would be an understatement. Infotech is functional colonialism. Thats really all there is to say.
Filed under #崇洋媚外
We Support #Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act
#uk
#EFF: We Support #Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to #UK’s #OnlineSafetyAct
[Recrutement] L’année 2026 sera marquée par deux moments forts chez Wikimédia France :
-Les 25 ans de Wikipédia : de janvier à juin 2026.
- Wikimania Paris 2026 : du 21 au 25 juillet.
Pour accompagner cette dynamique, nous recrutons un·e chargé·e de mission événementielle qui épaulera la responsable des projets Wikipédia 25 et Wikimania Paris et l’ensemble de l’équipe salariée. Candidature jusqu'au 20 août 2025
https://www.wikimedia.fr/lassociation/emploi-wikimedia-france/charge%c2%b7e-de-mission-evenementielle/
#Wikimedia #recrutement #événements #emploi
Het Wikimedia Kennisplatform groeit!
Meer dan 1.000 mensen vonden dit jaar al praktische tips om bij te dragen aan Wikipedia.
Nieuw: nu ook beschikbaar in Papiamento!
Ontdek de populairste artikelen:
https://www.wikimedia.nl/actueel/nieuws/wikimedia-kennisplatform-steeds-populairder/
Image du 17 juillet :
Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus), Kruger National Park, South Africa. Identified as Tatiana, female, six years old.
License : CC BY-SA 4.0
Artiste : Charles J. Sharp
Crédits : Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk