Wikipediocracy

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TikTok, which is owned by Bytedance, incorporated musical.ly a couple of years ago and is gaining a foothold in the Western part of world. All of that data is now going to China!
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/tiktok-statistics

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It's just that people have accepted (or don't care about) the current reality of privacy not existing anymore, and they don't really care about verifying data that is being tossed at them through websites. They can use a smartphone which feeds them with pre-selected news, without even needing to go ...

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panty_line

Completely unexpectable, right?

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I've heard that Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain on Mars, however I'm surprised to see a mountain exactly 1337 feet tall. It would be kind of leet, or l33t if you prefer. Does the ESA have any source to back that up?

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I don't think decentralizing the web would be a terrible idea, but what are the requirements for carrying out such a thing?

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Now that revenge porn laws have been approved in some countries, what's going to happen? All things regarding copyrighted images still aren't very clear. Who owns the copyright on a photograph or video? And if they are published first on a platform such as Wikipedia, which implies publishing under a...

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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/26/tech/eu-copyright-article-13/index.html https://www.alphr.com/politics/1009470/article-13-EU-what-is-it-copyright https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-vote-article-17 Rapporteur Axel Voss, a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, said the dir...

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All school librarians should know this. Take it out of schools.

You can take it out of schools if you want, but you're still going to have a problem, because people have all accepted it on their smartphones.

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Quick, prepare Nero (the software, not that old arsonist guy in Rome) and start producing DVD-ROMs of the Spanish language Wikipedia to sell in Venezuela! ¡Vamonos compadres! ... Oh wait, that actually means that no Venezuelan will have access to vandalized pages containing incorrect information. Th...

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In short, he has taken the wheel, and reinvented it... as a wheel. Reinventing the wheel in the field of technology (or telecommunications) appears to be a futile effort, because most of the time the problem is between the chair and the keyboard (or the shoes and the smartphone... :banana: ). You'd...

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Just do what I've been doing for years. Add 'facts' that aren't easily verified. Source them. Cite them. Write fake facts well. Squish them between lots of other facts. Change wording in such a way that it obscures something, becomes unclear. Be patient. Use different IP addresses. Eventually, it e...

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When Wikipedia was started, it was difficult to get free web hosting, the sites were of poor quality, and search engines didn't work very well. Today there are many options, and we do not need Wikipedia at all. Back in 2005 Wikipedia was ranked as the 35th most visited site in the world according t...

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Reading that you might wonder, "Why do we waste our time on Wikipedia?" Or writing about Wikipedia. There are so many better things to do. In a week or less we could be dead too. The waste of time is clearly justified by the will of people on this forum to inform other people, possibly around other...

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You need to be an FT subscriber to read that link. But I just clicked that link while it was being returned on the page for Google search results, and it didn't ask for any subscription. In any case: https://www.seeker.com/artificial-intelligence/this-new-ai-system-can-create-convincing-deep-fake-v...

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https://www.ft.com/content/8e63b372-8f19-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421 If you didn't think children running wild with various apps and free access to Youtube was a somewhat concerning thing, here's more! About 4 years after the Gamergate controversy, and approximately 2 years after the coinage of the term ...

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And that is why I use paper maps!

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Not impressed with the design, I am impressed that the WMF somehow managed to get a rap artist to sponsor their gear. The Hydraulic Press Channel on Youtube has put a few Fortnite ads at the start of their videos. What channels do you think would agree with putting Wikipedia ads before their videos?

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Deleting all those images is a lot of work! Will they be using a bot to delete all of them?

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ISyiTcA6RIw https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-passed-meme-war https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/eu-lawmakers-pass-controversial-digital-copyright-law.html It's finally September, and the EU has passed Article 13, its controversial "meme-killing" law, with very few amendments. The main poi...

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People have moved towards video blogging and are now less inclined to read information on sites primarily based on text, therefore most problems related to defamation and slandering happen through videos now!

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See also: Gregor Fučka!

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The reforms will now be delayed by some time as they are debated by the European Commision, no doubt they will be toned down a tad and then sent back to another vote later this year. Of course! In the meantime, a nice black banner will be put on top of every page to remind people about this whole b...

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The Italian language Wikipedia is now completely blocked and can't be browsed. In addition, there's a banner at the top of every page asking people to phone the European Parliament; what's more, clicking that button will take you to a page where people are again asked to phone people in the Parliame...

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But it's not going to work very well because most of the world is beyond the EU's jurisdiction. Are they going to block every website that's outside the EU? And how will that work for photos that are licensed under CC? These can of course be re-used subject to the minimal CC restrictions. And if so...

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive ...

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Cloud storage, wow!

https://www.krollontrack.co.uk/blog/top ... ly-stored/

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Wikipedia's order of biographical importance 1) Sports 2) Entertainment 3) Military (add extra points if participated in genocidal war machine) 4) Businesspeople/doctors/inventors/all the rest But what do average people care about, while doing stuff on the Internet? What do they think of the concep...

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Obviously, the protection that US law gives to the WMF doesn't apply outside the USA. However, enforcing a foreign judgment against the WMF would be very tricky. The importance of this judgment is thus more symbolic than practical. If the Powers That Be really wanted to prevent any problems with da...

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That "new," more visually appealing encyclopedia from a few years ago mixed Wikipedia text and videos from elsewhere to get similar mismatches. Its name escapes me at the moment. The great Cpedia! https://gigaom.com/2010/04/16/cpedia-founder-errors/ http://wikipediareview.com/lofiversion/index.php?...

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It's just a terrible idea. I mean, what will be left, the Simpson characters and Pokemon. Could it be more of a nerdy boy equation? Still not convinced to leave the project? Just wait until someone points out old discussions about underage people "love" and various kinds of advocates for niche caus...

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The only person who can stop me is me.

We are going to see more bad data getting inserted into wiki pages, then!

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The word "ethical" doesn't belong in the same sentence with him.

Put Jimbo Wales, Craig Newmark, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos in a room: who would you think is the least ethical?

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People always seem so shocked when academics and professionals show so little interest in providing their valuable skills/knowledge for free. Knowledge and experts are scarce materials, it's why they get paid! And you can get any bum to edit Wikipedia for free, because they think their stuff has no...

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Wikimedia Commons: the only porn repository approved by even the most prudish pastor

Of course... assuming Snapchat and Kik are mostly used to send pictures of lakes, rivers, trees, and buildings!

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http://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-blo ... cation-law

"Will social networks be subject to the same laws?"

Extending this: will Wikipedia be subject to the same laws?

Is COPPA enforced these days, anyway?

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Speaking of books related to technology and internet skeptics, I've found one titled "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway", printed in 1995. I suppose it contains some things which could be similar to Peter's thoughts on his site. https://medium.com/the-mission/in-1995-this...

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There is no article in English about the thing which inspired Nabokov to write his most famous book.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessio ... nyme_russe

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Do you think Everipedia could be a good alternative for idealists? Wikipedia has become "too big to fail" at this point, but it will not resist the test of obsolescence.

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The payment could at least happen on someone's resume in order to add useful skills, but that's probably not going to happen.

In any case, pay peantus, get monkeys!

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26th of December, 2026! :banana: Their entire model is unsustainable. It should have transitioned to a 2.0 model years ago. 1.0 would have been the crowd-sourcing phase, in which they try to build as much content as possible, while 2.0 would involve hiring a team of actual professional editors, rese...

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Polarization leads to high activity and creation of content. Whether that content is going to be useful or not, it's a matter up for debates!

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I don't know what this means, but it has a certain ring to it. Edits from smartphones are going to bring out some interesting bits of info from Latin America and India for sure! Unintentional vandalism due to poor command of the English language! [spoiler]pame ellnica[/spoiler] I don't know what th...

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And sometimes we split the bill in Italy

And it's called "the Roman way" there.

Idiomatic phrases aren't easily translated!

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Links to the past? In my Wikipedia criticism forum? It's more likely than you think!

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They quite deliberately do not tell anyone what people did to get in that list. We only ever get one sided and thus potentially self-serving accounts.

I'm sure the forum could use more than a few serial copyright violators and pro-something or anti-something people!

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Inclusionist have taken Wikimedia and Wikipedia complete over, kicked and trolled everybody out who did't share there vision, have started to collect knowledge with bot's What would you think about automatically created articles? It would be like the Cpedia idealized by Cuil: take bits and pieces o...

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Good, this means people are starting to lose interest in Wikipedia

And another good question is: what is attracting their interest now?

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But what do you mean? Years ago Eric Barbour and other contributors to this forum created graphs showing that the total number of edits on the English Wikipedia started declining after 2007. The projected edits-per-year get reduced progressively, reaching a total of about 0 edits around year 2026. ...

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The "problem" is that the more he or anyone here analyzes Wikipedia and its inner workings, the less there is to discover about it. So long takes it a wiki to crash, 16-17 years. A pitch drop falls falls sooner. Current calculations place the "crash" around 2026. Wikipedia is now just considered as ...

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I don't need Wikipedia therefore. He is my man! Because he is complete right, avoid Wikipedia like the plague. You don't need it for sure, but what if newspaper writers get most of their info from Wikipedia and then they shove it into printed newspapers you read while you're waiting for that coffee...

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