Chris Albon

Hey!

lol I also miss podcasting

You can create it using the api.

Awesome thanks.

For the record I’m personally against GenAI images on Wikipedia. I think they risk introducing misinformation. But I don’t control those policies, the individual volunteer communities (in this case ES and GL) do.

Can I see the articles?

I should get a second PhD

I am interested in it, but right now the focus is on making the lives of editors better

Content translation - MediaWiki

Here is a list of some ideas of what common topics might be: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"GenAI" is already used as part of the Content Translation tool, which has been around for a long time: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content...

Yeah it is a legit concern and worth being very careful about.

When everyone is zigging, we are zagging.

Not too long ago, we were asked when we're going to replace Wikipedia's human-curated knowledge with AI. The answer? We're not. The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success. For nearly 25 years, Wikipedia editors have researched, deliberated, discussed, built consensus, and collaboratively written the largest encyclopedia humankind has ever seen. Their care and commitment to reliable encyclopedic knowledge is something AI cannot replace. That is why our new AI strategy doubles down on the volunteers behind Wikipedia. We will use AI to build features that remove technical barriers to allow the humans at the core of Wikipedia to spend their valuable time on what they want to accomplish, and not on how to technically achieve it. Our investments will be focused on specific areas where generative AI excels, all in the service of creating unique opportunities that will boost Wikipedia’s volunteers:

Wikimedia has a new AI strategy!

A colleague and I spent months working on it. I am so happy that it is out. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04...

Wikimedia

Yeah I did not expect that

Didn’t buy the Costco garlic shrimp meal and then use the extra sauce as garlic bread

Not all of them, but a lot of them

So their one genuinely useful idea is like content butter spread over too much bread.

“You should do the hardest thing first” becomes a 300 page book called “The Morning Advantage” with an over-complicated framework for morning self-actualization or something.

The idea only requires 2-3 blog posts max. But they want to build a newsletter or sell a book off this idea. So they try to turn that one idea into a 300 page book or 200 newsletter posts by making the idea as far more complex or nuanced than it really is.

bubbles representing wikipedia edits

Need a break from doomscrolling? Need to remember there is still good out there? Listen to Wikipedia being edited live -- by real people just like you. listen.hatnote.com

Sadly yes

Instafollow.

YES.

Inshallah

Now it’s like 5am sigh

“ He killed Ranuccio Tommasoni in a brawl, which led to a death sentence for murder and forced him to flee to Naples. There he again established himself as one of the most prominent Italian painters of his generation.” from wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carava...

Laundry, fold clothes, pick up floor, clean dishes.

Hard mode

Working on Wikipedia for almost five years has prepared me for when my kid flipped opened an international calendar and started asking me what every single holiday meant.

Damn you for having a good ides

Brown bananas

“I should make banana bread”

I can’t find who originally wrote it, but someone had this great blog post about how scientists don’t replicate other scientist’s work (new method, new theory, etc) to check if it is correct, they replicate it because it is useful to their own work.

I think about that a lot.