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Doo<p>Très bon passage sur <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnevSipTaY&amp;t=1713s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ynnevSipTa</span><span class="invisible">Y&amp;t=1713s</span></a></p>
Ceryl<p>Muriel Hind 1st woman motorcyclist in England starting c. 1901. Competed in speed trials on 2, 3 &amp; 4 wheels wearing Edwardian hat, veil, boots laced to knee, long coat &amp; skirt. Test rider for Rex, 1910 they created Blue Devil bike for her d <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 3 May 1956 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Hind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_H</span><span class="invisible">ind</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CarveHerName</span></a></span> <br> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a></p>
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RationalizedInsanity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RationalizedInsanity</span></a></span> <br>You probably couldn't have convinced that person anyway, but I think it would be good to have another source besides <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> to explain tariffs. For many years, reasonable people and conservatives alike have been suspicious of WP content because it is publicly editable. It's worthwhile to be cautious, because vandalism occurs there. Sometimes, if I'm in doubt of WP content, I will definitely check the referees mentioned in the articles.</p>
RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸<p>I had the dumbest conversation of my entire life.</p><p>I told someone how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> work, specifically that they are charged to American companies, and are essentially a tax on them which turns into a tax on the consumer when the company raises prices, and don't make money.</p><p>They told me I was wrong, and then I sent them the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> link which said what I said.</p><p>They told me Wikipedia was liberal <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> and couldn't be trusted.</p><p>I gave up and blocked them</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/randomthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>randomthoughts</span></a></p>
ingenium<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> hat die klassischen gedruckten Enzyklopädien schon vor über 10 Jahren vollständig abgelöst.</p><p>Zeitreise zurück... Wann wäre sowas in den klassischen Enzyklopädien enthalten gewesen?!</p>
Jey Dee<p>Ernsthaft jetzt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> ?</p>
Andrew Kuchling<p>The Wikipedian: Wikipedia Got a Letter from the Government the Other Day</p><p>"Last week, Ed Martin, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia, announcing an investigation into whether alleged political bias and foreign influence—claimed but not substantiated—violate the Foundation’s obligations under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. ... There are two ways to read this letter. One is to take it at face value, and respond to it point by point. The other is to examine the political and ideological motivations behind its creation. Because it’s not good enough simply to call it ridiculous—you also have to explain why—The Wikipedian will do both."</p><p><a href="https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/maga-wikipedia-investigation-ed-martin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thewikipedian.net/p/maga-wikip</span><span class="invisible">edia-investigation-ed-martin</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://dmv.community/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikimedia</span></a></p>
Nick @ The Linux Experiment<p>Here is this week's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> News!<br>This time, we have <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> planning some big changes on the desktop, we have <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> adding AI features here and there, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSUSE</span></a> Leap 16 looking like a very strong proposition.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwlK5CqC3H8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=zwlK5CqC3H8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Calishat<p>What’s Going on With Dick York’s Wikipedia&nbsp;Page?</p><p>Wikipedia Hot Topics has handed me a mystery. The site takes one of Wikipedia's daily top 1000 article lists and reorganizes it by recent increases in page views (as opposed to overall page views). The reordered list provides an overview from Wikipedia, page view information, links to date-bounded Google News searches for the page's most-visited pages, and ...</p><p><a href="https://www.calishat.com/2025/05/02/whats-going-on-with-dick-yorks-wikipedia-page/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">calishat.com/2025/05/02/whats-</span><span class="invisible">going-on-with-dick-yorks-wikipedia-page/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/InformationTrapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformationTrapping</span></a></p>
LyleDAL<p>Notable Sandwiches #125: <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Naan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Naan</span></a></p><p>"I’m going to answer your first question right away: is naan, technically, a sandwich? No, it is naat. It is a flatbread."</p><p><a href="https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-125-naan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.com/theswordandthes</span><span class="invisible">andwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-125-naan/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Sandwiches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sandwiches</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ButtonDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ButtonDown</span></a></p>
AK<p>Gaza Freedom Flotilla incident [2025] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Freedom_Flotilla_incident" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Fre</span><span class="invisible">edom_Flotilla_incident</span></a><br>------</p><p>&gt;&gt; In the early Friday morning on May 2, 2025. a vessel from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, carrying 30 international human rights activists and humanitarian aid destined for Gaza, was attacked by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta...</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/FreedomFlotilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomFlotilla</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@lemmy.ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span></p>
jer<p>I have a theory:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> 's protected pages are mainly edited by twelve year olds on school assignments adding random singular <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/factoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>factoids</span></a> that they scraped from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a>. </p><p>Case in point:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Egypt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing</span><span class="invisible">_in_ancient_Egypt</span></a> 🤦‍♂️ <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
heise online<p>Bei Wikipedia zieht KI ein – als Unterstützung</p><p>Autoren und Moderatoren bei Wikipedia bekommen Unterstützung von KI. Wikimedia sagt explizit, KI soll niemanden ersetzen. </p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Bei-Wikipedia-zieht-KI-ein-als-Unterstuetzung-10369511.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/news/Bei-Wikipedia-zi</span><span class="invisible">eht-KI-ein-als-Unterstuetzung-10369511.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/K%C3%BCnstlicheIntelligenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KünstlicheIntelligenz</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Joel VanderWerf 🐧<p>When did google maps stop ilnking to wikipedia?</p><p>When I click on most locations, google gives a list of hotels and a brief paragraph describing the location and its interest to visitors.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Katharina Nocun<p>„Etwa zehn Menschen diskutieren, wie sie die <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> – und sich selbst – vor Angriffen von rechts schützen können. Die Gesichtsausdrücke sind besorgt, die Stimmen verzweifelt. "Was machen wir, wenn wir verhaftet werden?", fragt eine Frau in die Runde. "Wer beschützt uns dann?" Einige nicken.“ <a href="https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-04/wikipedia-donald-trump-elon-musk-angriff-autoren" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-</span><span class="invisible">04/wikipedia-donald-trump-elon-musk-angriff-autoren</span></a></p>
Matt<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/659222/wikipedia-generative-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/ai-artificial-int</span><span class="invisible">elligence/659222/wikipedia-generative-ai</span></a></p><p>Well there goes any remaining dregs of hope for a factual and reality-based internet. Where do you even go online once the single biggest source of cited information starts integrating the stochastic falsehood machine?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a></p>
Day Use X Mockin' Uh<p>In one screenshot, a case study in why ads are wrong.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Bypass Blues 🌻🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.de/@alex_w" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex_w</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tinoeberl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@Schutz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Schutz</span></a></span> <br>Kannte ich auch nicht, aber <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <br><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@aaron.rupar/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aaron.rupar</span></a></span> </p><p>""The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris.""</p><p>And here we are</p><p>This somehow gets lost in the monsoon of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AntiVaxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVaxx</span></a> propaganda, but so much of the opposition comes from the myth that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> are tainted with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AbortedFetuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbortedFetuses</span></a> </p><p>Reading <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> I see:</p><p>"...in the 1950s, scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden propagated a polio virus in fetal cell lines to make into a polio vaccine."</p><p>and</p><p>"Many other vaccines, including those for chicken pox and rubella, are made using cell lines originally derived from fetal tissue from two pregnancies terminated in the 1960s."</p><p>NOTE: not --&gt; aborted fetuses &lt;-- but --&gt; cell lines &lt;--</p><p>It's 2025 where I am</p><p>But for anti-vaxx <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Evangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evangelical</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> it's still the 1960s</p><p>Here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_fetal_tissue_in_vaccine_development" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_f</span><span class="invisible">etal_tissue_in_vaccine_development</span></a></p>
Ygor<p>Which of these organizations do you have a positive opinion of?</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poll</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/PublicGoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicGoods</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/digitalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalRights</span></a></p>
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