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Save Social Media From Billionaire Capture: freeourfeeds.com?
"But it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app."
I see the executive director and president of Mozilla Foundation as their technical advisors, no surprise. But it surprises me to have the executive director of the Social Web Foundation (@swf) there.
Any thoughts, @evan ?
It also surprised me to see Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, involved.
#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #Mozilla #Wikipedia #VentureCapital #SocialMedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
citationneeded.news/elon-musk-…
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.Molly White (Citation Needed)
Separately, I was planning to launch this project in January, after the holidays. But BECAUSE REASONS it makes sense to launch now.
I'm recruiting #Wikipedia editors for lace pages, and got a grant for it from @wikipedia .
#lace #BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking
Lace In Wikipedia Project Overview
With help from a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, a project to Enhance Lace Content in Wikipedia is underway. This video is an overview of that project, ...YouTube
Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.
It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.
newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-a…
Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.James Bickerton (Newsweek)
People on the EN #Wikipedia keep editing the ill-fated communist leader Musso's name to be "Munawar Musso" or "Musso Munawar". (It's currently the latter.)
In any old newspapers from the 1920s-50s he was only ever Musso. The oldest appearance I can find online of "Munawar Musso" is from the World Marxist Review in English in the 1970s. In recent English and Indonesian books (2010s-2020s) he seems to be now referred to regularly as Munawar Musso.🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musso
As with so many WP articles related to the fediverse, so much crucial information has been pruned out of the article covering StatusNet that it's arguably become misleading;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusne…
Articles seem to comes to the attention of... certain editors. Who know nothing about the subject, and worse, seem to consider accuracy irrelevant to the quality of WP articles. They add nothing, but prune anything not spelled out in the existing references.
(1/2)
There's been a ticket open about this since 2006 according to the date stamp and nothing's been done.
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T684…
#GAAD #Wikipedia #Wikimedia
Not that anyone noticed, but the English #Wikipedia recently crossed the 6,666,666 article mark.
Unofficially, the milestone article was... SatanCon! It's the annual convention of the Satanic Temple.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SatanCon
![English Wikipedia screenshot of the first revision of the "SatanCon" article
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rhododendrites (talk | contribs | block) at 13:28, 9 June 2023 (Holy cow! It's article number 6,666,666! Hail, Wikipedia! :)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
SatanCon is the annual convention of the Satanic Temple, a non-theistic religious organization which uses Satanic imagery to advocate for egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state. The conventions combine traditional conference-style educational panels with social events, arts, and a marketplace.
Background
The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religious organization founded in 2013. It uses Satanic imagery, humor, and legal tactics to advocate for the separation of church and state, critical thinking, reproductive rights, abolishing corporal punishment in schools, and other causes.[1] It does not believe in a supernatural Satan, but uses the idea of Satan and the public's reaction to the concept as a metaphorical or satirical tool to challenge religious authority and advocate against what it views as injustice.[2][3]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/444242 "English Wikipedia screenshot of the first revision of the \"SatanCon\" article
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rhododendrites (talk | contribs | block) at 13:28, 9 June 2023 (Holy cow! It's article number 6,666,666! Hail, Wikipedia! :)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
SatanCon is the annual convention of the Satanic Temple, a non-theistic religious organization which uses Satanic imagery to advocate for egalitarianism, social justice, and the separation of church and state. The conventions combine traditional conference-style educational panels with social events, arts, and a marketplace.
Background
The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religious organization founded in 2013. It uses Satanic imagery, humor, and legal tactics to advocate for the separation of church and state, critical thinking, reproductive rights, abolishing corporal punishment in schools, and other causes.[1] It does not believe in a supernatural Satan, but uses the idea of Satan and the public's reaction to the concept as a metaphorical or satirical tool to challenge religious authority and advocate against what it views as injustice.[2][3]")
Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is so important I find it hard to express.
It is the first big step of integration between the Wikipedian and Fediverse communities, and it has been massively under-noticed and not gotten nearly the attention this deserved.
I'm all for it, want to find ways to help & hope this is the beginning of much more integration to come. 🔥
Hay evento de #wikipedia en #xalapa! que yo ni wa'star pero ahí se los paso por si se quieren rifar una escapada xalapeña.
27, 28 y 29 de abril en la normal veracruzana.
Registro: forms.gle/xBPFCnVQMzBZpwfV6
The Akan #Wikipedia has been closed because...it's not an actual language, it's a language *family*. Instead, efforts have moved to Wikipedias in the #Twi and #Fante languages, the latter of which was just created today!
aharoni.wordpress.com/2023/04/…
diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/20/…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_lan… (
in other languages: w.wiki/6cJy)
Editors are now moving the content from Akan Wikipedia into the Twi and Fante versions accordingly.
I'm assisting a blind student in learning how to navigate the web using a laptop.
NVDA reads out the title first, then properties about the document, then the summary box on the side.
I can't find any way to skip that whole box and move straight to the main content. There is no main content landmark, nor is there a heading, not is it in the Contents section.
Take en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood… as an example. How can I navigate to the first sentence of the main article?
Thanks for any help.
#blind #accessibility
