🤔Curious about Wikimedia’s role in research & education? Listen to this episode from the archives of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast with host @nickshepp.bsky.social and guest @mlpoulter.bsky.social.

@funsizesuze.bsky.social I enjoyed your talk on data at QEDcon but noted that you're not on @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social So I created Q136661809 for you: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136661... Wikidata is harvested by lots of things so this should improve your online visibility. Cheers,

1/5 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is out. It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda. He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts. Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin

Breaking: President Trump expresses regret over not being able to release the Epstein files, promises to release the client list of the next pedophilia ring he is associated with.

Six years and 4 months after I requested it, we now have GeoJSON download from WDQS queries! [works best on desktop; mouse over right-hand edge to get menu with download link]

This month at #WomenInRed we are working on bios for women in #LGBTQ+ and those with a name beginning with K or L. We'd love you to join us in addressing the gender bias on English Wikipedia, 20.125% of bios are women. @wmau.bsky.social @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Surge of interest in @wikipedia.org articles on Cantor's Diagonal Argument, Georg Cantor, and Banach-Tarski paradox following the publication of @veritasium.bsky.social video.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

📢 Did You Know ... that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan? 🤝 Read its history on Wikipedia: https://tinyurl.com/4xbnz2aa #DidYouKnow #SamuraiShokai #JapaneseArt #MeijiEra #KhaliliCollections #Wikipedia #KFMission

ICYMI: Trump has dropped investigations and enforcement actions against 89 lawbreaking corporations, including: -42 cases at the CFPB -15 cases at the DOJ -6 cases at the EEOC -7 crypto cases at the SEC It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Musk and Trump despise Zelensky because they know they'll never earn the level of respect he has—and deep down, they realize he is a hundred times the leader they’ll ever be

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

now that Trump is back in office, we have NASA HQ sending directives like this to people who surely have better things to do www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

1/8 Elon Musk is working to ensure far-right parties win elections in Europe. Is the EU going to wait until his interference results in victories for far-right parties—contests they previously had no chance of winning—before taking action to counter his influence? Do something!

NEW reporting from @juddlegum.bsky.social on Elon Musk's takeover of our federal government. Musk’s OPM associates have gained "unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees." www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

Wikipedia's Did You Know section today features the article on 'An African Song or Chant from Barbados', which was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. https://buff.ly/40wJWKs #Africa #music #UNESCO #MemoryoftheWorld

The latest result of my cultural diversity work funded by @khalilifoundation.bsky.social : African/ Caribbean culture on the front page of Wikipedia

Jason Evans has been championing the wiki projects at @librarywales.bsky.social for ten years now! In this blog he reflects on Wikimedia UK's collaboration with the library, and how it's built a sustainable future for Welsh culture online through open access. https://buff.ly/40EkKBY #welsh #GLAM

A #Wikidata query I created last week: Pairs of things, of different types, that smell of the same thing: w.wiki/CrWS

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

We are absolutely living in the worst timeline. www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c...

The difference is, though, Hitler’s cars are still really popular.

I don't often make memes. Maybe that's a good thing. Anyway, here's one.

Happy birthday @wikipedia.bsky.social !

Wikipedia has a new article, 'Effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom', collaboratively created by over 20 researchers from UK universities and health institutes. Facilitated by @adamharangozo.bsky.social and @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3C7KSN4 #climatechange

One year ago, I asked The Royal Collection if they would promptly update their website, removing any claims to copyright on images of out-of-copyright drawings and paintings, in the light of the THJ v Sheridan [2023] ruling. [1/n]

The MSM keeps talking about climate change - if they talk about it at all - like it's something that's coming, slowly. But look west. This is climate change. Look east. This is climate change. It's everywhere, and it's now.

Ten years ago today @stephenfry.bsky.social kindly agreed to my request to record his voice for his Wikipedia article. Then Tweeted about it. It made the news later that month. It was over three weeks before there was a day without a new press story about it. #WikiVIP 1/n

Those of us that work in HE, and especially University libraries, have a duty to learn how to contribute to @wikipedia.bsky.social and support our communities to do so! Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

Do you suppose Musk has gone on the warpath against Wikipedia because he realized that, unlike the U.S. government, Wikipedia can't be bought?

As someone who has long advocated for Wikimedians In Residence in universities, this is great news. Lucy is going to be brilliant.

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Hello knowledge enthusiasts! 👋 We've just launched this account for Wikimedia UK - the national chapter of the global wiki movement. We'd be delighted to connect with any Wikimedians and open knowledge advocates on here! #introduction #opendata #wikipedia

BREAKING: 500+ musicians are now calling on major music labels to drop their suit against @archive.org & make real change. The music industry isn't struggling. Only musicians are. Don't destroy the Archive in their name. Musicians and fans alike can still sign the letter at www.savethearchive.com

Ironically I really hate the way the word ‘mouthfeel’ feels in my brain

A fascinating read, which alerted me to the original article, for the first time. The sheer audaciousness - maybe even mendacity - of organisations fraudulently claiming copyright in reproductions of public domain works beggars belief. Chapeau, @culturedoug.bsky.social !

We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇

Pete Hegseth, nominee for Sec Def: - zero experience - his own mother will not endorse him - not a single reputable member of the military has come forward to support his nomination - has a history of sexual assault, financial mismanagement and being drunk on the job You're all caught up.