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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.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/07/28/wik

AfterDawn · Wikipedia vaatii oikeusteitse muutoksia brittien Online Safety Act -lakiinBy Petteri Pyyny

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

theglobeandmail.com/canada/art

The Globe and Mail · Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places onlineBy Samantha Edwards

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!

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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?

@Milena_Hime

meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

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

meta.wikimedia.orgSearch results for "Vertical writing" - Meta

[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
👉wikimedia.fr/lassociation/empl
#Wikimedia #recrutement #événements #emploi