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#Wikipedia needs you
“Everything about Wikipedia is a worship of expertise,” aid its co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with Nature.
That’s the part of the approach that makes it so valuable — and one of the reasons why researchers should take the time to get involved.
As the web gets ever more polarized and swamped with untrustworthy content, "editors who are fair and civil, and who know how to weigh up evidence, are sorely needed.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-026…
Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on
The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.www.nature.com
True, but surprising to see in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦:
"#Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on."
nature.com/articles/d41586-026…
"The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it."
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Oooooooh.
It just hit me.
Wikipedia was born in the US. That's why there is the Wikimedia Foundation which controls the project, keeps everything inside its infrastructure, and is the single point of contact for the project.
OpenStreetMap was born in Europe. By the words of Juri, our DNA is different: we provide the data and do the absolute minimum, allowing hundreds of companies flourish on our data. E.g. there are no official routers or search engines.
#openstreetMap #wikipedia #opendata
Jiří Eischmann (@sesivany@vivaldi.net)
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in.Jiří Eischmann (Vivaldi Social)
Learned today Ancient Greeks thought vision works by beams projecting out of your eyeballs analogous to radar or echolocation. It's called emission theory. Wild.
I've heard before that children might implicitly assume that vision works like this. I don't remember ever thinking that way as a kid. Did you?
🇺🇸 - 🇬🇱 The US military really doesn't have the best track record in #Greenland.
🛬 - 💥 It's shocking how irresponsible the #USA has been with it's nuclear weapons!
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik…
#US #Nuclear #NuclearWeapons #History #Historical #EU #Europe #Military #uspol #uspolitics #america #american #weapons #bombs #nuclearbombs #coldwar #wikipedia #wiki #wikimedia #screenshot #denmark #unitedstates #airplane #crash #militarybase #thuleairbase #PituffikSpaceBase #Pituffik #arms
It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.
There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….
Wikipedia Needs More Women – Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia needs more women is our call for people like you to edit women’s stories, histories, and contexts onto Wikipedia.Wikimedia Foundation
Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!
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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.Wikimedia Foundation
