[Wikimedia-l] Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

2022-12-11 Thread reybueno1--- via Wikimedia-l
This just up in /r/trueunpopularopinion and YCombinator: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/zieyyf/wikipedia_is_not_so_great_and_is_overrated/ Quoted below because it was explicitly released under public domain: You all have heard by now that Elon Musk said that Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: How to recruit native speakers for a small language Wikipedia: Yoruba Wikimedians approaches

2022-12-11 Thread Mikaeel Sodiq
Hello James, We are interested in collaborating with Wiki Project Med on this translations effort. Could you please, send me an email with further information? Thank you. Mikaeel On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, 6:59 pm James Heilman, wrote: > Hey Mikaeel > > Let me know if you are interested in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: How to recruit native speakers for a small language Wikipedia: Yoruba Wikimedians approaches

2022-12-11 Thread James Heilman
Hey Mikaeel Let me know if you are interested in collaborating around the translation of health content. We at Wiki Project Med are working on easier to translate material on MDWiki and have built tools to facilitate, track, and document the impact of these efforts. Tool is HERE

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2022-12-11 Thread The Cunctator
He tweeted in praise of BAYC but has recently taken his tweets private without explanation. On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 10:40 AM effe iets anders wrote: > I'm probably missing some context. I've seen earlier references to this > NFT in light of his appointment. What I somehow missed (sorry if I >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2022-12-11 Thread effe iets anders
I'm probably missing some context. I've seen earlier references to this NFT in light of his appointment. What I somehow missed (sorry if I overlooked it) is a clear indication how he would have supported this NFT, and especially whether he supported problematic aspects of it specifically. Also:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT and Wikipedia

2022-12-11 Thread Anders Wennersten
I perceive we have a good dialogue with Google, and where Google show respect and also acknowledge Wikipedia role in their fact box etc ChatGPT is now making headlines more or less every day  and I perceive them to try to position themself  av the "next" google. But what about our dialogue

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT and Wikipedia

2022-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning via Wikimedia-l
Hello Cuncutator, I think there's several lines of thought on this. On what theory would you argue that ChatGPT is violating Wiki[p|m]edia copyright? (If you've already posted reasoning elsewhere, or if someone else has posted an opinion you happen to agree with; I'd be happy to read a link as

[Wikimedia-l] How to recruit native speakers for a small language Wikipedia: Yoruba Wikimedians approaches

2022-12-11 Thread Mikaeel Sodiq
Hello colleagues and Wikimedians, we are glad to share with you a significant amount of work Yoruba Wikimedians User Group has done to recruit native speakers for Yoruba Wikipedia and a number of pragmatic approaches we have engaged in that could serve as a model for other small language