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- Sun May 26, 2024 4:28 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
- Replies: 2
- Views: 59
Re: AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
The irony being how much WP has been used to train LLMs Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart The funniest part is that by vetting the...
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:33 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
- Replies: 2
- Views: 59
AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
The irony being how much WP has been used to train LLMs
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ ... edia-apartVolunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Ohnoitsjamie
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1920
Re: Ohnoitsjamie
Thanks for the reply. There is no need for me to edit the english wikipedia and i don't want to hide my ip address. I want to show that Ohnoitsjamie made a mistake because he is confusing me with someone else and i want to prevent others getting blocked because of those wrong decisions. Good luck w...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Link Rot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 110
Re: Link Rot
Given the state of copyrights these days blindly replacing millions of dead links with internet scrappings could create a legal minefield for better or worse Despite endless struggle, WP still contains millions of "possible or fringe" copyright problems. Commons contains million of images scraped f...
- Thu May 23, 2024 3:32 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Link Rot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 110
Re: Link Rot
Given the state of copyrights these days blindly replacing millions of dead links with internet scrappings could create a legal minefield for better or worse
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Ohnoitsjamie
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1920
Re: Ohnoitsjamie
Hey guys, i have a problem with Ohnoitsjamie and found this thread about him. I'm a german user and recently i made an edit on the english wikipedia (my first and only one). shortly after that, Ohnoitsjamie blocked my account because he thinks i'm someone else. i tried to understand and to explain,...
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 125
- Views: 2189
Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
preempt another sudden ban which it sounded might be imminent. Knock on wood. Too late :flamingbanana: Well damn. We have two people sniping at one another but one is the site admin so it's like Bambi meets Godzilla. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-rbzcEM8A I'm quite sure Crow will be fine .. ma...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 125
- Views: 2189
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
- Replies: 125
- Views: 2189
Re: Around the Administrators in 80 days....
has kraken given up? :cry: Yes. I carried on offline for a few days, got as far as Carlosguitar, but without an audience, while the basic information is there, the colourful commentary is not. And try as I might, with suckadmin sending me threats via intermediaries, I just don't think anyone here d...
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Common names invented on Wikipedia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 273
Re: Common names invented on Wikipedia
So the point is; someone invents a name for a fish species and posts it on the WP article, it ends up on a "WP mirror" called inaturalist, and no one noticed for TWO YEARS? When someone does notice, "indefinite block for vandalism"? As far as I can tell, most of Alomomola's "common names" were prop...