@nataschastrobl.bsky.social erinnere ich mich falsch, oder war schon Teile der Diskussion zu Star Wars Episode VIII nicht auch als eine absichtliche Kampagne aufgezogen, und das wurde dann auch belegt? Wie ein Trainingsraum, quasi.
Well, it's really tight on the other side of the picture, left of Zuck
"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful.
#linguistics #translation #engdeu
@vrandecic.bsky.social founder of Wikidata shares the history of Wikipedia and Semantic Web. @iswc-conf.bsky.social
This example from early days a nod to his beautiful HR
Ilse Falls in the Harz National Park, Germany. Text says: Wikidata is now the second Wikimedia project recognized as a digital public good.
Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) 🎉
Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...
That's not what I read. The failure comes from using the worldly success to dominate instead of using it to serve.
"it is essential that LLMs allow their mediating function to prevail over unfounded claims of authority, and develop an ethic of self-denial, consciously sought vulnerability, and service."
A great article on Wikipedia and some of the big problems it is facing these days, also within the context of former events. If you hear about Wikipedia being biased, this article offers a great discussion about that.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Imagine a world in which everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge. I am thankful to the Wikimedia Movement for this amazing vision, and to be able to work on this. And thankful to the MacArthur Foundation for choosing us as one of the finalists for their incredible 100&Change grant.
Entering my "academic publishing is broken, so why don't we all just edit Wikipedia" era
Haven't heard of such a trial
I am only 35 minutes into watching this but the things he has been saying for the last five minutes are such a stinging rebuke to the entire USCCB that I am now even more certain that schism that's been brewing for a while will happen in the next decade
Had a wonderful conversation with Larry, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, knowledge, and language barriers. Larry, thank you for having me over!
It seems that chatting with AIs can either cause or trigger psychotic episodes
Please be careful. If you're using AI frequently, I suggest to tell someone you trust, ask them to keep an eye on you, and even allow them to access your chat log.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Thank you!
Abstract Wikipedia was selected as a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition.
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/30/a...
On the latest episode of "Between the Brackets", Yaron Koren hosts me for a chat about Wikifunctions, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, AI, and much more. I hope you enjoy the episode. Thank you, Yaron, for hosting!
betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-180-...
"Knowledge in the Age of AI" - recording of a talk at King's College London
youtu.be/2oFrs86xtco?...
Thank you!
I am honored to be a visiting professor at King's College London. Thank you for the opportunity, and I'm looking forward to our work together!
Today is the 30th anniversary of launching the first wiki by Ward Cunningham. A page that anyone could edit. Generally seen as a bad idea.
Originally to support software design patterns, wikis were used for many other goals (even an encyclopedia!)
Thank you, Ward!
wikiindex.org/w/30th_WikiB...
h/t Dav Pilkey, "Dog Man: Big Jim begins" h/t my daughter
"My feathered friend, your cage
must drive you to rage sometimes…
To think that you have aged
staring at nothing but beige walls
She says "you know, our lives
aren't so different as you would believe.
All are in prisons of some kind,
tethered by the stories that we weave."
Halie Loren: Yellow Bird
Listen to experts @vrandecic.bsky.social and @esimperl.bsky.social as they discuss large language models, knowledge graphs, and how we can use these novel and complementing technologies.
#Data #AI
Just to sketch one approach, based on Germany's VG Wort:
They collect money for copy machines and other ways text is copied, and distribute it to copyright owners. Why not put a fee on chips used for training models and distribute the money to copyright owners? Simple approach. And just one idea.
Same week:
OpenAI announces model "good at creative writing"
OpenAI says it needs for national security copyrighted texts for free and without restrictions
Project Stargate involving OpenAI was announced with $500 billion
Entire US book market revenue is $28 billion
OpenAI could pay.
Great talk by @vrandecic.bsky.social at the #Informatics departmental seminar today on #knowledge in the age of #ai @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Wikifunctions - Wikipedia's newest sister project
Wikifunctions is a collaboratively maintained library of functions that anyone can use and contribute to. This talk will introduce the project.
Where: Newspeak.House, London
When: 10 March @ 7pm.
lu.ma/4rtmw5ch
There's this one guy who works for Wikipedia. He leads some truly amazing work, all open, even the tech stack. Even the team's task board is all open. I think the name is Chris too. And then he does some great explainers for all kind of AI concepts, as a community service. I learned a lot from them.
media in category "heart shaped potatoes". 15 homemade photos from commons
wikimedia commons