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Reluctant resisters
[edit]Columbia Journalism Review reports in Wikipedia’s Reluctant Resisters on how New York Wikipedians are holding up under the onslaught of attacks from several right-wing sources against Wikipedia and Wikipedians. The attacking sources mentioned include the Heritage Foundation, the New York Post, and Elon Musk. Musk and Donald Trump are pictured at the top of the article balancing a large Puzzle Globe on top of their heads. The Wikipedians quoted, Molly Stark, Pacita Rudder, Jim Henderson, and Ryan Ng, are generally calm if not nonchalant. "When you choose to become an editor, it's because you're passionate about an issue or you're passionate about making sure that knowledge exists and it's free for people to use. You don’t get paid to do this, and you didn’t sign up to be attacked," said Rudder.
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[edit]The New Yorker reports that Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia. Not much new here Heritage Foundation does admit something about their doxing plan 'Mike Howell, of Heritage, told me that this "investigation" of Wikipedia, which, he said, "is where information is laundered," will be "shared with the appropriate policymakers to help inform a strategic response." ' But who are 'the appropriate policymakers'?
Larry, Elon, and Don; or, will Wikipedia get its very own Executive Order?
[edit]draft only!!!! The Times of India reported on [2 0r three - I think I lost one] tweets Larry Sanger. The first was sent to Elon Musk asking Musk to investigate whether any U.S. federal government, including employees of security agencies, are being paid to edit or monitor Wikipedia. He even suggested closing down this activity (check). Elon took awhile to answer, but replied "Good idea". We'll venture a guess that almost every Wikipedia editor also thinks this is a good idea, at least if the spooks don't follow the Paid editing disclosure policy. A majority of editors might also agree that those who monitor Wikipedia should be defunded, though it likely that other editors might support the idea that everybody deserves the ability to read Wikipedia, and that the C.I.A. employees might learn a lot on the job. (OK, I'll tone this down). Larry's other main tweet went straight to the top, asking Donald J. Trump to issue an executive order to defund federal employees from similar actions.
- NDTV news story 1
- "Wikipedia co-founder calls on Elon Musk to investigate government influence over online encyclopedia" - Fox News (free video, text paywalled)
There will almost certainly be more news stories on this.
Improving the world one headshot at a time
[edit]404 Media, Engadget, and PC Magazine all found out about the WikiPortraits program conducted by volunteers and supported by micro-grants from Wikimedia Foundation. [1][2][3] [4] quotes Kevin Payravi, Commons:WikiPortraits, credentials
lots of bad photos for a gallery
maybe a Gallery article for the good pix
In brief
[edit]- Bloomberg sources anon Wikipedians about PIA edit warring: Needs a summary "Wikipedia roiled with internal strife over page edits about the Middle East" (March 7, via Detroit News) original, paywalled and the New York Post got in the fray with commentary on Bloomberg's commentary [5]. Both sources note the debate that Wikipedians carried out at where are the debates that resulted in a merger of two separate articles with different POVs on the attacks? Post sez "The first Wikipedia page described a June 8 event in the Nuseirat refugee camp as a 'rescue' operation...the other Wiki page called the June 8 event a 'massacre'".
- Performance issues: "China's online commenters seize on drop in F-22 engine performance data" – on Wikipedia! (South China Morning Post) Needs a summary
- Gender gap: "Wikipedia has a huge gender equality problem – here’s why it matters" (The Conversation) Text text text.
- Rolled food recipe: Comic XKCD continues Wikipedia fascination XKCD's Omniroll examines "List of rolled foods" and imagines combining them all. As often happens, the media attention inspires talk page discussion which anyone can join. Bring your favorite cookbooks to cite.
- That May 8 holiday: Efforts connected to International Women's Day noted by The Guardian (Nigeria): https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/on-iwd-wikimedia-foundation-celebrates-contributors-closing-gender-gaps-on-wikipedia/. The article provides three short bios for contributors User:Aimeabibis from Benin, User:Cmwaura from Kenya, and User:Olugold from Nigeria.
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