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kevin, 8 days ago to random

Apparently there is a "Cocked and Loaded" party happening at the rental I'm staying at and no one informed me 😳

kevin, 1 month ago to random

Solar prominences during the #eclipse 🌚

wikipedia, 4 months ago to random

It's Wikipedia's birthday! Here's our baby picture from January 15, 2001

kevin, 4 months ago to random

@annierau (aka Depths of Wikipedia) doing a great deep-dive into Wikipedia for #WikipediaDay 2024 in NYC :wikipedia:

kevin, 4 months ago to random

#WikimediaNYC has the perfect logo for #WikipediaDay 2024

kevin, 4 months ago to random

#WikipediaDay 2024 kicking off in New York City!

Hosted by #WikimediaNYC and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

kevin, 4 months ago to random

this capitalist rat is now in the public domain, repost for good vibes in 2024

MinecraftWikiEN, 8 months ago to Minecraft

We are finishing up our work on our fork wiki! We know a lot of you really want to see refreshed and hopefully better Minecraft Wiki, we are getting really close to it now.

Meanwhile, give Indie Wiki Buddy a try: https://getindie.wiki/, it's a browser extension giving independent wikis more visibility by informing you when visiting their unfriendly equivalent.

If you are confused, see our previous post on what a fork is: https://wikis.world/@MinecraftWikiEN/110810862033280907

#MinecraftWiki #Minecraft #wiki #fork #IndieWeb

kevin, 9 months ago to Hololive

The Verge published an interesting interview with the CEO of #Fandom, Perkins Miller.

Some of the nonsense includes Miller referring to wikis as "blogs" twice, as well as calling Fanatical "the leading online commerce platform if you want to buy an online video game".

https://www.theverge.com/23841327/fandom-wikia-perkins-miller-ads-ai-community-passion

kevin, 9 months ago to random

I have been training my whole life for this moment. #wikimania #wikimania2023

kevin, 9 months ago to Wikipedia

I've recently made some big updates to Cite Unseen, a user script on the English #Wikipedia that adds icons to citations to help indicate their reliability and nature (such as when a source is an advocacy group, government-controlled, opinion piece, etc.)

Th updates include new icons for satirical and sponsored articles, new configuration options for users, more reliable citation detection, improved runtime, and many new domain categorizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen

Cite Unseen was also recently featured on Headbomb's @WikiSignpost article, "Citation tools for dummies!" There are many tools worth checking out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/Tips_and_tricks

Mastodon, 9 months ago to random

To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we are launching a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t-shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/

stefan, 10 months ago to fediverse

There's now quite a lot of options for hosting your own Mastodon/fediverse community.

• https://masto.host
• https://fedi.monster
• https://cloudplane.org/apps
• https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html
• https://communick.com
• https://spacehost.live (early access)

Exciting times!

#fediverse #mastodon #selfhosted #MastoAdmins #FediAdmins

kevin, 10 months ago to Dallas

Photos from today's Dallas mechanical keyboard meetup.

#dallas #mechanicalkeyboard #keyboards #texmech

A table with various colorful mechanical keyboards on display.
A fake grill and food display. There is a brown keyboard built into a cartoonish 3D printed ham with a bone sticking out of it. Surrounding it are various plastic food items.
A crop of a keyboard with light purple and white keycaps. The arrow keys feature a cute bear-like creature. There are also special artisan keycaps; one is a pig wrapped in a blanket, and another is a faceless monitor with hands, feet, and ears.

luis_in_brief, 10 months ago to random

After nearly two decades in the informal-but-awesome @creativecommons community, I’m now taking a formal position by joining the CC board.

I’m hoping to use the role — and this unique moment, driven by machine learning’s fusion of content and functionality — to build more bridges between open source and open culture, and ensure that there’s a role for open, and the commons, in this new moment.

https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons/110667786711180950

kevin, 11 months ago to random

#Miraheze, the go-to free wiki host, is winding down :(

https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement

Will remain operational through the end of August. #wikis

kevin, 1 year ago to random

Late-night thinking about how generative AI might impact the sharing of "new knowledge" online. With chatbots and search engines returning AI, it's bound to reduce traffic to wikis, review sites, blogs, forums, etc. Similar fear that Google's Knowledge Graph introduced - less traffic means less potential contributors.

Will there be a reduction in people updating wikis? Sharing their solutions on Stack Overflow? Will most of our knowledge sharing turn to just feeding the black boxes of AI?

luis_in_brief, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

There used to be (still is?) a tool for @wikipedia editathon organizers where, given the usernames of the editors at the editathon, you could track their edits. Does that still exist? I’m failing to find it. :/ #wikipedia #editathon

[edit: found! https://payravi.xyz/@kevin/110311216727015843]

michael, 1 year ago to fediverse

mastodon_get_replies is now FediFetcher!

FediFetcher is a simple Python script that can help you pull missing responses from other #Fediverse instances into your own #Mastodon instance. It can also backfill profiles of new followers and followings.

It can be run as cron job, container, or even a GitHub action, meaning you don't need any infrastructure at all.

For more information check out

https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher?utm_source=mastodon

#mastoadmin #fediadmin #singleuserinstance #mastoadmins