Martin Poulter

Are You a Knowledge Philanthropist? If Not, Why Not?

And an outstanding one! The term has stuck in my mind since a talk by Jack Herrick of WikiHow: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/guest-b...

So many parallels with cult recruitment!

Likewise great to be in touch with you again, Ken! Hope you're well and thanks for the link.

@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]

Page of text describing the events happening during June and calling for help to choose the most interesting 100 women on English Wikipedia. Also reminding editors to check a name against EnWiki's notability before translating their bio from another language.

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.

Graph of substantial jump in daily views of the three mentioned Wikipedia articles; Georg Cantor getting 3,500 views in one day from a base of below 500 a day.

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

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

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.

“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today. This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request. Note that the list below is the list that exists this morning, but it may grow as the day goes on. DEIA Diversity (in context of DEIA) Equity (“ “) Inclusion (“ “) Accessibility (“ “) MSI Minority Serving Institution Indigenous People EEJ EJ Environmental Justice Underrepresented groups/people Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)”

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!

Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

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...

A photograph of the manuscript showing the musical score and written lyrics and notes, by Granville Sharpe circa 1772–1779

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

#UnmaskingMusk

Infographic created by Jason Evans, showing 10 years of milestones at the National Library of Wales

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

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath · 2h Wikipedia lies. Mainstream media lies. They will contort the truth to make you believe in a bogeyman. In falling for it, you’re giving up your God given ability to think for yourself.

Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire Wikipedia has been ideologically captured for years It's important that this is finally coming to light The most extreme bias is probably against Israel Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!

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.

Jesus "telling the truth" meme. Jesus says "1, i, 0 is a Pythagorean triple." The crowd reply "Shut up". The caption says "They hated Jesus because He told them the truth."

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

Happy birthday @wikipedia.bsky.social !

Effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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