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Charles Matthews interested in the Gobase situation and

gobase.org/studying/art... .

Go-related post. I hear that some content from gobase.org is being migrated to gobasearticles.org. I have many articles at gobase.org/studying/art....

Dutch Go Association: who is handling this?

Start from the premise that the US has 5% of the world's population, even if it has a larger proportion of the world's money. The state of health of 95% of the human race must count for something.

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data American citizens are left vulnerable

The Trump administration is dismantling America’s climate databases, firing expert staff and deleting key reports and analyses. Such actions will make important modelling harder

Have to say that Fergie doesn't belong in the same sentence as "politics" or "class".

Jess Wade started a Wikipedia article for her, in 2018.

Dynastic Egyptians, a Simpsons character, these I can believe.

Dorman baronets The Dorman Baronetcy, of Nunthorpe in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, created on 21 July 1923 for the steel manufacturer Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet. Th...

Depths of Grokipedia #4: grokipedia.com/page/dorman_...

"The coat of arms for the Dorman baronets has not been reliably documented in available sources." That reflects the total reliance of GP on the Web. Try opening a book.

Says more about academia, and the various modes of processing things (itself an academic area), than about what life has to offer.

Ley baronets The Ley baronets refer to the holders of two separate baronetcies created for members of the Ley family in the British honours system. The first, in the Baronetage of England, was granted on 20 July 1...

Depths of Grokipedia #3: grokipedia.com/page/ley_bar...

Where to start? I find it ironic that, while I am engaged in a project to put the various baronetcies sharing a surname on separate pages, GP mimics enWP by making a compound page. With typically sententious editorial.

Would fail at AfC.

Apparently Google Books search is back again. Still gives the bloated "new look" URLs that obstruct using the in-book search. But the suffix &focus=searchwithinbook exists.

To state the obvious, it is a face-saving exercise by Musk. He can afford vanity projects - others not so much.

Another way: custom site search, e.g.

site:books.google.com "Henry VIII"

in google.com .

Can't say. But a search like

www.google.com/search?q=Goo...

does apparently search Google Books for London.

YouTube video by MS NOW Noem's coarse tweet comes back to bite her in blistering ruling on protections for Haitians

youtu.be/Mirkl9YRsU0?...

Arthur Sutton Valpy Arthur Sutton Valpy (28 March 1849 – 15 June 1909) was an English Anglican clergyman renowned for his pastoral service, ecclesiastical benefactions, and role as a canon of Winchester Cathedral from 18...

Depths of Grokipedia #2: grokipedia.com/page/arthur_...

If you look at reference #33, to the ACAD database at venn.lib.cam.ac.uk, suddenly this is "deep web". Bertha Pattinson's details (by David Palfrey) do not have a URL with an ID. You need a URI.

Where from? Most likely, from the enWP article.

Who Can You Trust? Think back, if you can, 25 years ago to January 2001, and what do you remember? To jog your memory, that month saw the inauguration of George W. Bush as U.S. President, the launch of iTunes from Apple, and the appointment of the England football team’s first foreign manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson.   While you sit there thinking how old you feel, this will make you feel even worse: it was also…

25 years ago, Wikipedia was a punchline. Today, it’s one of the most trusted sources online. What changed?

In a world awash with misinformation, trust isn't just earned, it's built. Our latest blog explores what Wikipedia’s evolution can teach the rest of us.
#ScholComm #Research

Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut ...

One in four adults in England do not drink alcohol, survey finds Questionnaire completed by 10,000 people finds sobriety on rise, with women slightly more abstemious than men One in four adults in England do not drink alcohol, with increasing numbers of men and young people deciding to stay sober, according to a survey. The figures, which come from a questionnaire of 10,000 people as part of the Health Survey for England, found that almost a quarter (24%) of adults in England had not drunk alcohol in 2024, an increase from just under a fifth (19%) in 2022. Continue reading...

One in four adults in England do not drink alcohol, survey finds

Bramshill House Bramshill House is a Grade I listed Jacobean prodigy house mansion located in Bramshill, northeastern Hampshire, England, constructed primarily between 1605 and 1612 by Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zo...

So, Grokipedia. The posting

grokipedia.com/page/Bramshi...

is an interesting study. Clearly the system has ingested a large number of HTML pages and online PDFs. If you look at the references, however, you might wonder if a gravel business's website had much to do with early modern topography.

Right. A small pile of retreads could masquerade as the
Michelin man. A shedload of old tyres is definitely a junkyard vibe.

Indeed, the Catcher-in-the-Rye objection to "phoniness" is a surprise. Not because there is a shortage in adolescents, but because putting a teenaged mind in the Oval Office is not what adults should condone. More so when senility is another issue.

Table showing gendered ratios of English-language Wikipedia pages and pages for Classicists

In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki

The new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography login is not impressing. Very keen on logging you out, and intermittently just not allowing library card logins.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.

Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for the people it detains, often using third-party providers to do so.

ICE, however, has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025.

One Year After Texas Measles Outbreak Began, Experts Consider Another Grim Milestone

‘More than 150 children — most of whom were unvaccinated — were hospitalized. Two unvaccinated children and one adult died from measles complications, the first such deaths in the country in a decade’
#trump #republican #rfk #children
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

If for telling porkies, the judges would have a bigger field, but perhaps an easier task.

Wikipédia a 25 ans : une pionnière raconte comment elle a changé le web depuis le fin fond de l’Auvergne Wikipédia, l’encyclopédie libre, fête ses 25 ans. Florence Devouard, une des pionnières françaises, ancienne présidente de la Fondation Wikimédia, revient sur une épopée qui a transformé le web. Elle raconte avec émotion...

👉 bit.ly/Wikipédiaa25ans

Crédit image : Michael Barbereau WMFr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#Wikipedia #WikimediaFrance #Wikipedia25 #WebLibre

I suppose Trump's Greenland lunge may turn out to be his Bay of MCPs.

Why Go is going nowhere Three masters, one game, zero consensus

If only the region got on better, a precious piece of East Asia's shared heritage could gain more purchase abroad