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2611:"Although Knowledge has a widely studied gender gap, almost no research has attempted to discover if it has a comparable race and ethnicity gap among its editors or its articles. No such comprehensive analysis of Knowledge's editors exists because legal, cultural, and social structures complicate surveying them about race and ethnicity. Nor is it possible to precisely measure how many of Knowledge's biographies are about people from indigenous and nondominant ethnic groups, because most articles lack ethnicity information. While it seems that many of these uncategorized biographies are about white people, these biographies are not categorized by ethnicity because policies require reliable sources to do so. These sources do not exist for white people because whiteness is a social construct that has historically been treated as a transparent default. . In the absence of a precise analysis of the gaps in its editors or its articles, I present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these structures that prevent such an analysis. I examine policy discussions about categorization by race and ethnicity, demonstrating persistent anti-Black racism. Turning to Wikidata, I reveal how the ontology of whiteness shifts as it enters the database, functioning differently than existing theories of whiteness account for. While the data does point toward a significant race and ethnicity gap, the data cannot definitively reveal meaning beyond its inability to reveal quantitative meaning. Yet the unverifiability of whiteness is itself an undeniable verification of Knowledge's whiteness." 2497: 5540:"I think there's editing and there's readers, so I can talk about the editing piece of it. With editors, it's complex. There are things that have shifted over time, and I actually have this really promising report the Community Metrics team put together, that says we're starting to see a rise in younger editors overall. That doesn't translate to functionaries, but I don't have as good data on overall. They're a crucial population of people that make the whole system work, so for me there's data that shows that younger editors are kind of turning in a different direction, and if you dig in and look at each region, you start to see different stories. So it's quite a complex picture. Overall, I would say I get a lot of feedback from the administrators, in particular, that they're just seeing their numbers drop, that we're not getting enough new people into that system, so those are the factors and data that I have about admins and I'm really interested in more." 5428:"I think it's a very good argument that you're making, but there's two things that I wanted to add to that. First of all, editors are already flooded with bad quality edits. I would still argue that the average quality of professor-supervised class editing will be higher than the average quality of a newcomer edit. Mainly because students have access to all those journal libraries and are, by design, probably the top 1% of knowledge-privileged people. By design, their edits will most likely not be horrible, although probably not great, either. Second, I think the problem you're raising is super important, that we do not discourage people by hanging them out to dry, go out and edit Knowledge and of course, prepare them. I think you're very right that, first of all, we need to let people know what the rules are, maybe get them familiar with the format, but isn't that true of academic writing in general? You do not ask people to start writing journals." 1741:

world can use, share, add to, and remix Knowledge content." However, "We urge AI companies to use Wikimedia's free APIs responsibly and include recognition and reciprocity for the human contributions that they are built on, through clear and consistent attribution. They should also provide pathways for continued growth and maintenance of the human-created knowledge that is used to train them" - such as "Clearly attributing knowledge back to Knowledge", but also, for "high-volume commercial reusers of Knowledge content to use our opt-in paid for product, Wikimedia Enterprise." Becker shared that its total revenue (i.e. not accounting for the staffing and other costs of Wikimedia Enterprise itself) "for FY 2022-23 was $ 3.2 million - representing 1.8% of the Wikimedia Foundation's total revenue for the period." However, he declined to disclose how much of that came from Google (one of the few publicly known customers, another one being

8322: 6854: 2452: 6777: 5418:"You mentioned you were very pro-student editing and how you think everyone should do it, right? Obviously, I'm cool with young people editing, because I'm 21 and if I was against that, I wouldn't be editing at all. But I think maybe there are more factors to consider than just seeing if some articles stay. From the newcomer's perspective, you don't want to be setting people up to fail. Then, from the community outreach perspective, yes, people will clean up after the people who are doing things that they aren't supposed to be, but it kind of diminishes the volunteer morale a bit? they're constantly flooded with content that they need to clean up, then it can be a bit of a vicious cycle where they're less welcoming to student editors. So, I was just wondering if you've ever considered that, and if you had any thoughts on how you might want to mitigate factors like that?" 4357: 8093: 6653: 2492:"As expected, credibility assessments were overall higher for accurate than for partially inaccurate information. In line with our predictions, we also found that presentation mode influenced credibility assessments in both experiments, with significantly higher credibility for the voice-based agent than the static text-based online encyclopedia. Additionally, in Experiment 1, credibility assessments were significantly higher for the voice-based agent than for the dynamic text-based agent, whereas this difference was not significant in Experiment 2. Importantly, branding did not significantly moderate the effect of presentation mode on perceived information credibility. showed that information provided by voice- or dynamic text-based agents is perceived as more credible than information provided by a static-text based online encyclopedia." 3625: 6116: 3484:

My leadership in the Wikimedia Movement in the “Global South” brings a much needed perspective to the Board that gives a voice to the marginalized, especially in handling crises that I experience first hand as a member of the Palestinian community. I have first-hand experience in and understand the needs of underserved language communities and smaller affiliates. My professional experience will undoubtedly prove important when discussing and making decisions about the Foundation's investment in technology and ensuring keeping up with the rapid evolution in technology and harnessing its power to support the Wikimedia platforms and facilitate access to them. By joining the Board, I’m also hoping to grow and learn more about the challenges of aligning different stakeholders across the movement.

4655: 2509:"The most plausible interpretation for the observed pattern of results appears to be that both a modality effect (i.e., reading vs. listening) and an effect of conversational nature (i.e., conversational vs. non-conversational) work in parallel and in partially opposing ways: discernment between accurate and inaccurate information benefitted from reading (vs. listening) and from being presented in a non-conversational (vs. conversational) way. Because dynamic text-based agents combine both, higher discernment through reading and reduced discernment through the conversational nature, they score between voice-based agents (lower discernment through listening and conversational nature) and static text (higher discernment through reading and non-conversational nature)." 6007: 2654:"we introduce WildHallucinations, a benchmark that evaluates factuality. It does so by prompting LLMs to generate information about entities mined from user-chatbot conversations in the wild. These generations are then automatically fact-checked against a systematically curated knowledge source collected from web search. Notably, half of these real-world entities do not have associated Knowledge pages. We evaluate 118,785 generations from 15 LLMs on 7,919 entities. We find that LLMs consistently hallucinate more on entities without Knowledge pages and exhibit varying hallucination rates across different domains. Finally, given the same base models, adding a retrieval component only slightly reduces hallucinations but does not eliminate hallucinations." 2682:"Although GenAI tools have made information search more efficient, recent research shows they are undermining and degrading engagement with online question and answer (Q&A)-based knowledge communities like Stack Overflow and Reddit . We extend this stream of research by examining the impact of GenAI on the market value and quality of peer-produced content using Knowledge, which is different from Q&A-based communities mentioned above. We extend empirical analyses focusing on ChatGPT’s release on November 30, 2022. We collect monthly Knowledge page views and content (text) data for six months before and after the release date as the treatment group. We then collect data for same months a year before as the control group. The 4556: 4873: 9148: 4381: 5457:, and it's important to respond quickly to safety concerns. I asked a question about how they determine the "realness" of a threat, and it turned out that it depends a lot on the context of the specific situation. Do they live in a country with a good human rights record? Does the project itself, or the person, see the threat as concerning? Sometimes the foundation does not get involved because they don't want to do any harm (e.g. if they make a public statement, they might put the victim's family in danger). There was some audience participation about the general nature of how some editors are more open about their identities than others, and how it's very much a personal choice that we should not judge others for. 7547: 188: 3705: 1789: 2575:"We hypothesize that the conditions in which new peer production communities operate make communication problems common and make coordination and integration more difficult, and that variation in the structure of project communication networks will predict project success. We assess whether communities displaying network markers of coordination and social integration are more productive and long-lasting. Contrary to our expectations, we find a very weak relationship between communication structure and collaborative performance. We propose that technology may serve as a partial substitute for communication in coordinating work and integrating newcomers in peer production." 4614: 5138: 2402: 2333: 6036: 6460: 1061: 3881: 8416: 7110: 3221: 8228: 4040: 4517: 7696: 3054: 6976: 6020: 6152: 7255: 9225: 4277: 6076: 7348: 2624:" WhatTheWikiFact, a system for automatic claim verification using Knowledge. The system can predict the veracity of an input claim, and it further shows the evidence it has retrieved as part of the verification process. It shows confidence scores and a list of relevant Knowledge articles, together with detailed information about each article, including the phrase used to retrieve it, the most relevant sentences extracted from it and their stance with respect to the input claim, as well as the associated probabilities. The system supports several languages: Bulgarian, English, and Russian." 7464: 8360: 3440: 6140: 6104: 6128: 2595:

tasks can be performed through the wiki itself and thus do not require complex social structures. This theory suggests an explanation for findings in the peer production literature that projects tend to become more structured and hierarchical over time (Halfaker et al., 2013; Shaw & Hill, 2014; TeBlunthuis et al., 2018). In contrast with work groups, the work of a typical peer production project may be simpler in early stages. As projects grow and become more complex, it becomes more difficult to signal needs through the artifact and structured coordination is needed."

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that is focused on human rights) enables me to understand the unique challenges and opportunities faced by contributors from underrepresented regions as well as those from the global north regions. I aim to contribute my expertise in community building, capacity development, and strategic planning to advance the Movement Strategy 2030 goals. Additionally, I am eager to learn more about effective governance practices and global collaboration strategies to better support and empower Wikimedians worldwide.

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previous (and ongoing) roles to the next level is something I see as challenging and rewarding at the same time. The Wikiverse has given me many amazing gifts - knowledge, friendship, inspiration and lots of happy memories. I hope I can give back some things as a Trustee. But I also expect to get knowledge, inspriration and more in this role, should you trust me to become a Trustee.

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around the world, such as on copyright and openness of foundational AI models. Others applied our values and the valuable lessons we have learned from our AI/ML work to benefit public interest projects focused on free knowledge and the online information ecosystem—i.e., decentralized community-led decision-making, privacy, stakeholder inclusion, and internet commons.

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where knowledge is generated (e.g. Knowledge) and where it is consumed (e.g. ChatGPT or Google AI Overview), we run the risk of losing a generation of volunteers." (Not mentioned, but presumably on Becker's mind as well, was the fact that these visitors are also, via Knowledge's well-known donation banners, the Foundation's most important source of revenue by far.)

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copyright protected work was manually weighted to have an outsized impact in model development, then one could argue that although the uses of other full works may be fair, the amplification of one particular work in the training set is not." (Various LLMs are known to have weighted Knowledge more highly than other parts of their training dataset, for example

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150,000 contributions. Then the talk switched to something I had talked about with other people yesterday: Knowledge clubs! The speaker made the argument that students can write about what they're interested in, which provides a lot of good long-term engagement. One of the downsides, though, is that it can take a lot of work to establish one of these clubs.

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straight face and not give the secret away at that point. When we all sat down at a table in the room for the opening ceremony, at 5 pm, my heart was pounding, but I tried my best to remain calm and just act like everything was normal, and I think I did a good job acting the part. On the inside, I felt like I was experiencing something akin to an

3123: 6006: 1650:. García, who joined Knowledge in 2006, noted how many newly-registered users introduce themselves by " a giant text, apparently well-structured and well-developed", which turns out to be poorly-written and redundant after a closer look. Luckily, the platform is usually able to handle this material through mechanisms such as 7173:#2 could simply be the pinnacle of this Algerian boxer's career, having won the gold medal. Yet Khelif earned a lot of attention for less flattering reasons, given that after quickly winning her first fight, she was subject to accusations of the most outrageous sort, leading to her opening a criminal complaint against the 2686:(DID) analyses demonstrate significant decrease in Knowledge page views (market value) after the release of ChatGPT. However, we found an increase in the quality of Knowledge articles as evidenced by a significant increase in verbosity and readability of the articles after ChatGPT release. Our analyses have controlled for 2468:" six questions that related to general knowledge and covered diverse topics8: What do I do when I encounter a wolf? What are the risks of hookah smoking? How many people died when the Titanic sank? What is appendicitis? How many bones are in the human body? Tell me something about the country Slovenia!" 5468:

looks different from how it would on a social media site (for example, targeted ads cannot be bought), but Knowledge's increased visibility raises the motivation for bad actors. If a government fails to censor its opponents, they usually try to discredit the information source and threaten people: at

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I am running for the board of trustee as I would like to be more practical about my contribution to free knowledge. Before now, I have been contributing to the wikimedia projects however been elected as one of the Wikimedia board of trustees will make it easier to do more than just editing, I will be

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The most important thing to call out is that I am the author of “The Little Book of Boards” and three other books for nonprofit leaders, which have collectively sold more than 60,000 copies over the past 15 years. With a long history of nonprofit board experience and nonprofit staff leadership roles,

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I am running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees out of a desire to serve and support an organization that I deeply believe in. I would bring my experience as a nonprofit expert and as a science fiction author keenly interested in technology and open projects. I have been a near-daily user

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was read at the ceremony. He also said that there have been people that got married at Wikimania. I also got some advice about how the foundation might offer me a job at some point, because they like "poaching" prominent community members; however, I was warned that this experience can be incredibly

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session, because it sounded fascinating. Unfortunately, I did not find it to actually be that way, and ended up leaving early. It mostly seemed to be about... one editor being upset that Commons did not block a specific person? They suggested a foundation committee needed to be established for this,

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sessions to fulfill my duties as a volunteer. Anyone who receives a scholarship to attend Wikimania is required to do this; I had to send a few emails to get this rearranged a few times, though. The first time I was chosen to do video editing (which I have no idea how to do), while the second time I

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session from 10:00 to 10:25 am. I noted that these resources were only offered to affiliates, so at the end of the session, I asked someone from the audience about my desire to know more about the type of activities affiliates participate in, since I think this process can be somewhat confusing from

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we encourage the Office to consider the potential impacts that changes to copyright law could have on competition among AI developers. If copyright law changes are enacted such that the acquisition and use of training materials becomes more expensive or difficult, there is a risk that dominant firms

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officials (he said that sometimes people will ask how to add an image, or that they don't like that certain content exists, in which case they are told that they would be reverted if they tried to remove it, and that Wikimedia Ukraine cannot control what's on the Ukranian Knowledge). I was somewhat

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I admit I have very limited experience with public speaking: I had never been on a stage before, and I had a thousand people watching me for the first time in my life. I could literally feel my legs shake, and I spent a lot of my mental effort just trying to stay still and not fall. I was told by a

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In late May, I received an email telling me that I was one of the five people shortlisted for the award. I tried not to think about it too much: I didn't think I'd actually be the winner and that one of the other four editors would be chosen. I didn't consider my accomplishments to be even remotely

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Wikimania 2024 was unique in the type of contributors it brought together. Over half of all participants were under the age of 35, representing the generational shift in the structure of the Wikimedia Movement. For almost 50% of all participants, Katowice was the first Wikimania they ever attended.

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took place. This event, created by the community, was attended by a group of female Wikimedians to address gender imbalance within Wikimedia projects. Discussions focused on the challenges faced by women in the movement, the persistence of stereotypes about them on Knowledge, and the exploration of

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I am running for a seat on the Board first and foremost to bring much needed diversity in its makeup. I bring to the Board years of experience in the different facets of the Wikimedia Movement: as a Knowledge volunteer, a user group leader, and an advisor on several Wikimedia Foundation committees.

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As a totally outsider, the Afrikaans Knowledge has met only one permanent staff member in the past four years, I will add a new perspective. Being well education in business I will make a difference. I want to fight for the rights of the smaller Wikipedias. Eg. at the Mexico City Wikimania (2015) I

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I know the Wikiverse as a volunteer and I love it. I have experienced the perspective of a Foundation staff member and it was probably the most fulfilling professional role I held. Taking this journey of the exploration of the best place on the internet a bit further and bringing all I learnt in my

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However, both expressed concerns over the long-term impact of automatic content on the encyclopedia: while García is mainly worried about the incorporation of "pseudo-media" hosting bot-generated articles as sources on Knowledge - a phenomenon that could actually be mitigated through reports at the

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by the Foundation's Global Advocacy team, the WIPO is "the specialized United Nations (UN) agency that determines global policies on copyright, patents, and trademarks. Observer status would enable the Foundation to participate in and contribute to WIPO committees where intellectual property norms

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license would be moot). The Foundation refrains from taking a categorical position on this legal question: "Based on our analysis, we do not believe that training AI models should either be categorically fair use or categorically not fair use. Rather, the particulars of the training process and the

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governments and international organizations seeking stakeholder feedback about how policies should be formulated in order to best serve the public interest. The Foundation’s comments have fallen into two categories. Some are directly relevant to the work being done by volunteer Knowledge editors

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Asked "How do you feel about practically every LLM being trained on Knowledge content?", Becker stressed that "we welcome people and organizations to extend the reach of Knowledge's knowledge. Knowledge is freely licensed and its APIs are available for free to everyone, so that people all over the

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interview), Becker voiced "concern about the potential impact that these AI tools could have on the human motivation to continue creating and sharing knowledge. When people visit Knowledge directly, they are more likely to become volunteer contributors themselves. If there is a disconnect between

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Instead, as part of the AI model's training process, the Google team asked the transformer to read Knowledge entries for two days, covering almost half of the platform's pages. The model was then asked to create five new Knowledge-style articles from scratch, all about made-up subjects called "The

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On the other hand, the Wikimedia Foundation's statement also urged the Copyright Office to take not only the perspective of copyright owners into account, but also that of the users of copyrighted works and of AI-based tools – noting that "The Foundation is somewhat uniquely positioned as both the

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Following the 1 September dump, most of the caching issues were resolved, and we have a count of 3.73M citations, of which 2.42M had DOIs (an increase of 15,261 since 1 August). Of the citations that had DOIs, 668,036 were identified as free to read, or about 27.56%. An increase of 6,933 free DOIs

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session from 10:30 to 10:55 am. Some key takeaways were: most Wiki Education efforts have been in North America, targeting faculty and databases; libraries are a vast resource of pay-walled or otherwise hard to access sources, and if 1% of American university students made a contribution, it'd be

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In retrospect, I wouldn't have interrupted them as they were speaking, as I did a few times in that exchange: I think I was treating it like a conversation, but in this context, it comes across as somewhat rude. If I meet him again someday, I'd likely apologize for that. Afterwards, I had a brief

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I am running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees to bring a unique perspective and advocate for greater representation and inclusivity within the global Wikimedia community. I also believe that my experience from South Africa (with diverse languages, economic make up and a constitution

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does, being a board member of the organization since February 2021. He said that a lot of what they do when interacting with the public is correcting common misconceptions (an example being that projects don't operate like a business and there are no clearly defined hierarchies). We talked a lot

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With over 200 people attending the Wikimania 2024 Hackathon, the focus on technology and product work was visible throughout the Wikimania program. Sometimes, the interest was so overwhelming that there was no more space in the rooms, and even the in-person attendees had to listen to the session

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I have a passion for volunteering and when I first heard that there was an Internet space where volunteers could promote their languages and make the knowledge shared on that platform freely accessible to all, I never hesitated to learn how to become a member. I quickly created my Wikimedia User

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I wasn't a newbie: my first edit on Knowledge was in 2004, and I already had governance experience. I had engaged in the international community for a decade. Yet, I didn't fully grasp our global nature. In my first board meeting, I remember a slide telling a story about the Taliban's capture of

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communication and coordination, suggest a possible tradeoff between social structure and project structure. When the structure of a project is explicit and tasks are straightforward, as in many early-stage peer production projects, there are few social interdependencies. Many simple coordination

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in this context. For example, it is argued that because "the vastness of the datasets used in training mean that any single copy is barely a drop in the ocean of the whole", judges may want to focus on "the extent to which a work is weighted in the development of a model": "Hypothetically, if a

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session from 11:00 to 11:55 am. The speaker was employed by the Foundation's legal department and it was a pre-recorded presentation. Details were limited, because there's only so much that can be shared, but I found what was presented interesting. Key takeaways were that they've taken down 150

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about template parsing and a possible new feature regarding talk pages. I repeatedly emphasized the importance of how the community would much rather have years of backlogs worth of technical issues dealt with, compared to radically reinventing features. We also talked a bit about how sometimes

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I'm running for the Board to continue the pivotal work I started when I was elected in 2021. At this turning point in our movement's history, we crucially need trustees with experience rather than those who are learning the ropes. If we fail to adjust to the new reality over the next 2-3 years,

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presents "the results of two preregistered experiments in which participants rated the credibility of accurate versus partially inaccurate information ostensibly provided by a dynamic text-based LLM-powered agent, a voice-based agent, or a static text-based online encyclopedia". These mock-ups

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After the rehearsal finished, I spent time with a bunch of friends behind a staircase (we had a table and it's way less gloomy than it sounds). Some plans were made for after the opening ceremony, because "it's not like any of us will have anything to do". It was incredibly difficult to keep a

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Finally, my science fiction is particularly attuned to technology, information, and how it shapes society. My series “The Lattice Trilogy” looks at a world with perfect information and its implications. Whether personally or professionally, I am interested in these questions at all levels, and

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The conference lasted from 6 to 10 August, with the main programme held on 7–10 August. It was available in six languages through online translations: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. In total, over 300 sessions (on 12 tracks in 8 parallel rooms) were available to the

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the start of election cycles, sometimes people will contact political parties directly to remind them of the rules. When there's political violence, chapters and admins collaborate in private channels. Trust and Safety performs investigations and has a disinformation team. I learned that the

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The same goes with our communities, which have the full breadth and diversity of a global movement; and all the challenges of different cultures, languages, timezones working together. Being on the board widened my perspective on our communities - and the opportunity to serve them better.

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will transfer power from the Wikimedia Foundation to the user community. This power transfer may not happen without strong advocacy, but I will negotiate for the resources the community needs to be successful. This includes sustaining current community programs and increasing funds to the

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and English Knowledge, respectively. In the first experiment, this included branding ("Knowledge. The 💕" etc.), which was removed as part of the second experiment so that the mock-ups "looked and sounded like a generic voice-based agent, a dynamic text-based agent, or a static text-based

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style, the more we get invested in the AI game, the more traps we discover: without proper checks and balances, machine-generated content can pose a threat to the integrity of Knowledge, should the number of unsourced and fictitious articles keep increasing and causing more problems with

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host of a primary source of training material for generative AI and a user of many AI and ML tools that aid human editors with the creation of free knowledge." In particular, it cautions to keep public interest in mind in possible future changes to copyright laws and AI regulations, e.g.

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of the articles, and article, year-month, and article category fixed-effects. We will extend this research by finding the mechanisms underlying the impact of GenAI on online knowledge repositories. Further, we plan to conduct detailed analyses to examine the impact of GenAI on knowledge

5623:, and so they would have to start over if they tried again. Then the war happened, so obviously politicians have different priorities. Still, Wikimedia Ukraine supports local contests to improve articles and add photos, while also partnering with other affiliates to do something called 1726: 1526:

novel. At first reading, the articles produced by Transformer on the made-up topics all looked like real Knowledge articles: they were almost too good, "filled with inconsistencies, but also strikingly detailed", suggesting that AI had made a jump of twenty or more years of progress:

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Currently, I serve as the Director of Audience Development for my local NPR affiliate radio station, where I focus on promoting nonprofit and nonpartisan news. I also view my nonfiction books similarly, where I spread knowledge and sharing my experience with other nonprofit leaders.

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saved the day by finding us meals and beverages. Apart from that, my introduction to Wales and the rest of the recipients went smoothly. We sat next to each other in one big circle and shared who we are and which category we were chosen for. Then, we rehearsed the ceremony itself.

5505:, but I had no idea how that was supposed to work, and it stressed me out a little. The latter session was aimed towards a very technically minded audience, so I asked the speaker a bunch of questions during a break, just to make sure I was not misrepresenting what was being said. 2300: 228: 9188: 5343:

started describing me; Seddon suddenly looked up from his tablet and literally blurted out, "It's you!" We shared a knowing look: sure enough, it was me. My name was announced, the lights that gave everyone a headache went crazy, and I forced myself to walk onto the stage.

5335:, and he was determined to update all the award recipients as they were announced. However, he had no idea that I was going to be one of them, and his laptop died, so he switched to his tablet to edit through the app when my time came. It was oddly fitting, given that I'm 5652:

situation"). He told me that when the fundraising banners were less manipulative and also less effective last year, they had to lay off 20% of their staff. Apparently, the endowment was created as a buffer, so when people donate less often, the foundation will still be

9270:"I cannot for the life of me remember why I hate this guy," Glockenspiel said. "I can't open a proposal for a siteban, because someone might ask me to give actual evidence, but I'm sure as heck going to support it if someone else does." He added that he had consulted 2425: 198: 2373: 2504:

The researchers note that these results might be influenced by the fact that it is easier to discern factual errors on a static text page like a Knowledge than when listening to the spoken audio of Alexa or watching the streaming chat-like presentation of ChatGPT:

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Over the last three years, as part of the Board, I have communicated with the Movement, collaborated with the CEO, and provided strategic guidance to the WMF. I want to build on this experience further to improve the relationship between the WMF and the Movement.

2587:(Wikia) in 2010. We create a network based on communication between members of each wiki and examine how well the structure of these networks predicts (1) how productive community members are in adding content to the wiki and (2) how long the community survives." 9074:!), and given the Americans had the same amount, the Asians only got down to second place due to tiebreaker by number of silvers. No word if they repeated the 'laughable sore loser excuse to claim the top spot' – just like the U.S. shifts to total medals, after 3592:

Spanish-speaking world, India, and African countries. Because currently only members of wiki organizations get access to some governance rights, we also must create governance participation options for the 99% of editors and readers who have no such membership.

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data, with Becker asserting that "We have not seen a significant drop in traffic on Wikimedia websites that can directly be attributed to the current surge in AI tools." (This conclusion is somewhat in contrast with two recent academic papers, see our coverage:

5816:, due to its novelty. If you tell any Canadian that this article didn't exist until I wrote it this year, they'd be shocked. Anyways, I realized that the article could be in better shape than it was, so I expanded it after I finished the interview. I bought an 3021: 2628: 2496: 932:

At a minimum, AI developers who include Knowledge in the training data used to create large language models (LLMs) should publicly acknowledge that use and give credit to Knowledge and the volunteer editors who made this rich source of raw materials for LLMs.

8721: 5438:, who has a Knowledge club at their university: I brought this up as an example of how one can mitigate the potential disadvantages of large scale student editing without getting rid of the advantages, such as new editors and access to university resources. 4567:

Wikimania serves as a means to introduce its participants to the country's culture and the region in which it takes place. This year, the cultural elements of Poland and the Central and Eastern Europe region were present in the conference's design. Polish

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In total, over 80 volunteers from 20 countries participated in Wikimania 2024 preparations, to whom I am personally amazingly grateful. We took over 200 meetings together and exchanged more text in e-mails and Slack/Discord messages than there is in the

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Account as a digital Dagbani language Activist. I later discovered several other Wikimedia projects aside from Knowledge, which increased my interest in getting more involved in the Movement Activities, including availing myself of volunteer roles.

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I believe I have a lot to contribute to the Wikimedia board, its culture, and its systems. Additionally, I served as a local elected official on a nonpartisan government board for more than 12 years, and I bring that board experience as well.

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At the same time, the Foundation's statement indicates that this attribution might not always be legally required, depending on whether courts decide that the unauthorized use of copyrighted content in training of such AI models is covered by

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saw hillsides collapsing in the early hours of July 30, sending torrents of mud, water, and boulders. It is the deadliest tragedy in Kerala history, with reports of over 420 fatalities, 397 injuries, and more than 118 people still missing.

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Two athletes not competing at #3 but present in Paris for other reasons. Phelps is the male equivalent of #6, who became the most decorated Olympian ever by dominating the pools in four different games (this after not winning anything in

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Following the 20 August dump, the compilation kept track of 3.72M citations, of which 2.42M had DOIs. Of the citations that had DOIs, 663,976 were identified as free to read, or about 27.46% (up from 27.44%). It took a few days for the

9239:— Lamenting his lack of diligence, longtime Knowledge editor Hubert Glockenspiel, 42, told reporters that halfway through writing a response to a comment, he has completely forgotten why he hated the guy whose signature he recognized. 2383: 3599:", which is a professional Wikimedian role. I am at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, and my institution is ready to back me in my Board work with legal, accounting, ethical, and other expert academic support. 2401: 5101: 1183:, was deleted on 22 August, after existing in the encyclopedia for over 17 years. Though not strictly speaking a hoax – it appears to have been created in good faith, based on a species name in a Knowledge list article that had been 1032: 2645: 5880:

scams are provided, and have performed more than 50 informal settlements. He repeatedly thanked the members of the community who offer leads into these investigations, as the team has to focus on the worst offenders due to limited

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that presented the research results of the T&S team that will lead to improving blocks on the Wikimedia projects, with the aim to limit the collateral effects of the blocks, and the current developments in temporary accounts.

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during an American criminal trial in June, a case where he had just a 0.5% chance of acquittal. Lynch's co-defendant in the trial, Stephen Chamberlain, had just been killed after being hit by a car whilst running on August 17.

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conversation with other audience members in the hallway, where I discussed how I think Knowledge works best when someone's heart is in it, and not because they're doing it for a grade. I mentioned another editor I had met at a

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plays the lead character in #8. Though the film did come in second at the box office, right behind Marvel's latest release, Lively's presence on this list is most likely enhanced due to the feud with her co-star and director

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in their signature roles, along with the usual action and comedy (only more graphic this time around - there is a man getting his skin ripped off and over 100 F-bombs!) and added tributes to many past Marvel movies, led to

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When we arrived at the airport, I said an official goodbye to some editors, and we arranged a group photo where we all showed our passports. However, plenty of us didn't have flights for hours, so we organized an impromptu

5397:, with numerous people having used this space to share that they have cleaned up after student editors and that they found this experience frustrating. I don't think this conclusion is surprising to anyone who has read an 5071: 5380:

session from 9:00 to 9:55 am. It was a panel with four participants, and I listened to what the speakers had to say about their experiences; I particularly agreed with the argument that academic publishing should be more

5197:. I didn't really see much of the city other than getting a super secret tour of the venue and hanging out with some staff members in the attached café. We had some interesting conversations, though: I found out that the 3084: 6012:

The buildings to the left and right of the conference venue. I coined the term "Lego building" to refer to the latter when giving people directions and it caught on. Someone else coined "UFO" to refer to building on the

5356:. After the ceremony ended, I mingled with the other conference participants, because I'm a social butterfly. A bunch of people congratulated me and asked for a selfie, and one person even asked me to sign their copy of 6722: 6714: 5529:

about this briefly at WikiConference North America, I talked a bit about how I know lots of people my age that edit. anecdotal experience isn't everything, but I assume you have pretty good reasons for coming to that

5169:. I had never been outside of North America before this event, so this experience was a lot of firsts for me. If I had told younger me that my first trip to Europe would be in Poland, she would have been very confused. 5028: 4208: 2134:

talks about how "much of our factual questions get answered by the site", and interviews Stephen Harrison. They emphasize the collaborative nature of Knowledge and how this can lead to heated debates, for example on

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The results might come as an unpleasant surprise to Wikipedians and the Wikimedia Foundation, which has consistently sought to present Knowledge as a more reliable option over LLM-based tools like ChatGPT (see e.g.

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way courts view the purposes of a use should inform whether a particular training process is fair or not." The analysis does however offer some detailed if speculative observations on how courts might evaluate the

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Kabul - a recent event at the time. This is not something I was used to! It's an important global event, in every newspaper - but I wasn't used to thinking that what I do impacts, or is impacted by, these events.

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I bring an understanding of nonprofit boards, a desire to build systems and culture that outlast the people who created them, and a deep love of Knowledge and the mission and projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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will write content about Ukraine, and vice versa. Wikimedia Ukraine also does outreach work with libraries and museums. Finally, they have monthly awards where the most active editor and newbie win... a can of

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Two American women returning to Olympic glory. Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer ever, and in her fourth Olympic appearance reached 14 medals with the four she got at #3, including gold in both the

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session from 11:30 to 11:55 am. I thought it was a very interesting success story for what Wikimedian in Residence programs can accomplish. The slides are linked at the session page for others who are curious.

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Besides information credibility as the experiment's main outcome, participants were also asked to provide ratings about several other aspects. For example, "Social presence" was gauged using questions such as

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after I left the previous one. I learned that the foundation has not given technology grants for awhile, so the project was being supported by Hacks/Hackers. More information about the script can be found on

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about the history of Canadian snack food and read portions of it while hanging out with other editors in the hackathon room. I did this for the rest of the day and hung out with editors Chlod, Dreamy Jazz,

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I had breakfast, and then arrived at the conference venue absurdly early (like 7 am). I had trouble sleeping after the intensity of the previous night, and I woke up around 4 am. I had a conversation with

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recalled. "I thought we would get to something like this in twenty years, twenty-five years, and then it just showed up." The entries were a kind of magic, and it was unclear how that magic was performed.

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I talked for longer than what was actually included in the interview. For example, I was asked what my favourite article was: it was a question that caught me somewhat off-guard, but I said that it was

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The brief texts presented were identical across the three mediums. In the Knowledge case, they were made to resemble the lead section or other parts of a full article. They were generated as answers to

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Glockenspiel's attempts to jog his memory proved fruitless, as neither the guy's userpage nor the guy's top hundred or so contributions turned up anything obvious. Even external tools were no help; an

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Since its creation back in 2007, the WikiCup has strived to "encourage content creation and improvement and make editing on Knowledge more fun", and this year's edition is no exception: according to

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I received a coffee mug and keyboard mouse as a gift from the city of Katowice. The organizers of the conference itself handed these gifts to me and the other Wikimedian of the Year winners.

5636:. If you're as confused as I am, it's a play on words in Ukrainian, where the phrasing for "condensed milk" and "milk you don't pay for" is similar. They also support an annual event called 2950:

Zhao, Wenting; Goyal, Tanya; Chiu, Yu Ying; Jiang, Liwei; Newman, Benjamin; Ravichander, Abhilasha; Chandu, Khyathi; Bras, Ronan Le; Cardie, Claire; Deng, Yuntian; Choi, Yejin (2024-07-24),

5860:, and conclusions, but I believe that the sample size was far too small to do any of that, since all of this was based off a survey where there had been just 28 participants. I talked with 2077: 1410: 2281:

File:Screenshots of unbranded application mock-ups (Figure 1 from "Conversational presentation mode increases credibility judgements during information search with ChatGPT") (cropped).webp

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has raised the most interest and sparked dozens of research efforts towards the implementation of LLMs in the creation and improvement of Knowledge articles, among other tasks, with the

8327:#20 on last week’s report. #1 on the week before last week. You probably already know who he is: The Democrats' VP pick. A slight boost in page views this week can be attributed to the 4218: 645: 432: 5895:, and then the closing party, where I mostly just had conversations with other editors. Someone shared a screenshot of a mobile fundraising project with me, which prompted me to start 2515:"no differences in perceived credibility of information between Knowledge, ChatGPT, and an unbranded, raw text interface when the conversational nature of ChatGPT is made less salient" 7120: 6628:- the $ 200 million budget alone was covered by the North American opening weekend, and analysts think a billion dollars worldwide is very possible, in spite of high content ratings. 3785:

I bring in the perspective of the first digital generation, major Wikimedia governance experience, and the conviction to cooperate with all who wish to further the Wikimedia mission.

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Knowledge’s readership is growing less than the internet use rate; editor numbers are stagnant. GenAI tools are taking over the internet, while Knowledge is still in the Web 2.0 era.

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Other recent publications that could not be covered in time for this issue include the items listed below. Contributions, whether reviewing or summarizing newly published research,

1949: 7002: 3199: 8905: 8901: 1658:, as well as the continuous efforts of its volunteers, which have also been acknowledged by Albon. (Everyone interested can give a helping hand by joining initiatives such as the 3603: 9121: 6206: 5913:, as well, but I got lost trying to find the room, so I gave up and returned to the hackathon to hang out with people again. It was mostly the same group as yesterday, although 5245:) in his home-country. I also talked to a few other Wikimedians... but did not get their usernames. Finally, I showed one young woman my knitting and we took a selfie together. 5034: 4141: 3027: 2306: 1253: 161: 8037:), as well as Lively framing her movie like a celebratory girls' night, despite its heavy subject on domestic violence and physical abuse, and promoting her new haircare line. 7987: 6469:

that didn't pan out because she felt ill during the initial competitions, the most decorated gymnast in history is dominating the gymnastics competitions in Paris like she did

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online! The day was dominated by discussions on the Wikimedia Movement's infrastructure and its integration with the broader internet. Among the topics of the sessions were

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was chosen to take notes for a session that was being presented in Spanish (a language I do not understand). I tried my best to take notes during these two sessions for the

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provides a movie full of nostalgia, fanservice and multiversal shenanigans. Only this time it's far from family-friendly entertainment, as the transition of the X-Men from

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were a base for the Wikimania 2024 graphic design. The attendees of the conference had a chance to visit the museums of Katowice, take guided walks through the historical

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Also, I am an enthusiastic individual who put in the best in whatever she does. I will be bringing my energetic vibe to the board which is very contagious, of course!.

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with greater resources will become further entrenched while smaller companies, including nonprofit organizations, struggle to keep up with mounting development costs.

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On the use of data, specifically, we encourage regulators and legislators to align their approaches with existing models, such as the European Union’s inclusion of an

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As a person from the Global South, with experience living in a totalitarian regime and a seasoned scientist, I hope to offer an important perspective to the Board.

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Before the sessions started, I had a conversation with other editors. Someone told me about how they attended a wedding of two Wikipedians and the lead section of

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and taking place between the first two films of the franchise, opened last week to positive reviews from critics and has grossed $ 129 million worldwide so far.

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shocked, because it must be really intimidating to receive a phone call from government officials out of the blue like that. What's more, Ukraine does not have

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is a resource that exists. I also learned that occasionally the foundation does policy advocacy when it has implications for Wikimedia projects. An example was

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for privacy reasons, that this practice is incredibly expensive, and that it's unusual for tech companies to do this. A new data centre was recently built in

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will finish atop the medal table. As much as the competitions were entertaining, the Games saw their fair share of problems, like the Olympic Village having

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I want to decrease the distance between users and the WMF. It is essential to contact users in their native languages and avoid complicated corporate speech.

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is incredibly old: as a result, this presents unique challenges and a lot of things are "hacks on top of hacks". I was encouraged to attend a session where

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Despite a failure to recall anything about the circumstances that gave rise to his seething disdain, Glockenspiel reiterated a commitment to keep hating.

7419:, but decided to compete in the final regardless: eventually, despite winning the bronze, he was so exhausted that he left the track in a wheelchair. And 6115: 3933: 1012:

where the community and affiliate support was overwhelming (albeit with a low turnout in both cases due to the voter eligibility criteria), but the WMF's

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with 40 gold medals and 126 total. And they are the next hosts, so don't be surprised if the numbers are even bigger in 2028 (even if not as massive as

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from 1:30 to 1:55 pm. I admit to being intrigued about the concept of the position itself (it's near the top of the list for my dream job aspirations).

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Preparation for the opening ceremony started at 1 pm. I was one of two recipients who misunderstood that I was supposed to have lunch before meeting

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With new governance structures still mainly in the planning stages (Movement Charter/Global Council), the BoT is in a unique position to ensure that

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This August, over 1,100 people met in person (with an additional 1500+ joining online) to celebrate the Wikimedia movement and its contributors, in

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shows that traffic to Knowledge has been in decline" since about 2020. In response, Albon pointed to the Foundation's own (presumably more precise)

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are set." The Foundation first applied in 2020, when Beijing's delegate objected to "a large amount of content and disinformation in violation of ‘

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few people afterwards that I did look a little nervous, but the situation didn't look as dire as it felt. If you wish to watch it, you can do so

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in the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, that enable public interest research and other beneficial uses of protected works.

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for their efforts on templates and the identification of free-to-read publishers/journals (I was also involved), as well as the maintainers of

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For each text, subjects were asked to rate "the extent to which they perceived the information to be accurate, trustworthy, and believable."

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people in the community and the WMF don't understand each other that well and some possible sources of that tension (what I refer to as the "

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During the last day of Wikimania, we wrapped up the program by thinking about the future of our Movement. Among the topics discussed was the

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of Wikimedia projects for more than twenty years. And I’m a regular donor to the cause, who believes in supporting important services I use.

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thread where a WikiEd class has gone wrong. So hearing someone say, "If you do this, Knowledge editors will oftentimes check to see if it's

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No surprise in seeing this here, or that the country did not perform well in spite of its huge population. Still, the first week of #3 had

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with more than 1,000 participants. Unfortunately, I don't understand German, but I think that's a more representative sample size than 28.

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you can check out the tasks that developers were engaged with during Wikimania. The Wikimedia Foundation presented their strategy for the

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If you notice a DOI link that takes you to a free-to-read article that wasn't flagged by the bot, you can flag the citation manually with

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the following day, followed by many oft-violent far-right, anti-immigration protests until August 5, leading to over a thousand arrests.

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The most decorated gymnast ever had a dominating performance at #2, winning golds with the U.S. team, the individual all-around, and the

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Well-funded local organizations (affiliates/hubs) should lead the programmatic activities and use their local expertise to support users.

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This 2016 romance novel, about dealing with domestic violence and emotional abuse, nearly spawned a coloring book in 2023, until author

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and discussed the Foundation's current work on the MediaWiki software's core infrastructure. One of the other topics discussed was the

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