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ble fact it is mostly about wikipedia and at that if it does not fit the english wikipedia community conversations will not bring you much the two biggest revolutions that happened lead to two new projects and apart from their function they did not change english wikipedia it was too expensive to have the same picture on all projects pictures are now stored at commons the english community objected to its policy of only freely licensed pictures so nothing changed as they may still serve licensed materials as an illustration articles on the same subject were linked through interwiki links the process to maintain them was too costly a centralised database was created the links are now stable at wikidata the english community was not bothered because it were nerds mostly from other projects who maintained those interwiki links the decisions to have both commons and wikidata were made by the wikimedia foundation the 25th birthday of wikipedia is celebrated in paris and it has its challenges and opportunities the biggest challenges in my opinion are communities that are aging and decreasing in size and information that is outdated or incomplete opportunities can be found in the sum of all the knowledge that we already have one iterative question for an ai what are the inconsistencies within our wikipedias another is to have abstract wikipedia provide information for all the misses when an article is locally missing why not challenge our public to be part of the solution thanks gerardm ps great tools like scholia should be adopted by the foundation so that it is always available and we could open up our references in a more informed fashion posted by gerardm at 3 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstract wikipedia ai wikimania thursday july 23 2026 signwriting 2025 a response to a wiktionary initiative on diff the aggregator for wikimedia news a case was made to support sign languages particularly for wiktionary sign languages are used to communicate there are many hundreds of sign languages only half the people who know how to sign are deaf there is one writing system signwriting that can be used for all sign languages there are a few misconceptions in the wiktionary proposal with over 300 sign languages there is a potential for over 300 translations for each concept sign languages are not to be linked to countries there are countries with multiple indigenous sign languages all languages have their own iso 639 language code the same ase for instance is the code for american sign language the characters of the signwriting script are included in the same standard that includes all other scripts like cyrillic or devangari the consequence is that as your computer supports unicode your computer will be able to show texts written in signwriting when you have a supporting font at that google may be your friend with its noto sans font and the wikimedia foundation may provision readers of its projects content a decade ago there was a concerted effort from within the signwriting movement to have wikipedias in multiple sign languages much of what transpired can still be read on my blog at the time the wikimedia foundation did not have the bandwidth to support the technical requirements in mediawiki it is why the deaf who express themselves with their sign language have no platform within the wikimedia foundation thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 12 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels iso 639 signwriting unicode wikimedia foundation saturday july 04 2026 growing exposure for wikimedia content the downward trend in the number of readers and editors of wikipedia is a big issue but maintenance is imho as problematic too many articles are out of date need an update or are factually problematic there is not one but there are 250 wikipedias intended to serve the sum of all available knowledge and they all need more readers and editors to amend and append when we go back to first principles references are the basis for every article and item we could serve all known references and add reference material for people to find they could be youtubes scholarly papers articles from newspapers and all that in any language new references are linked to subjects and this makes it easier to contribute to wikipedia articles obviously wikipedia articles commons pictures all are to be included in the search results there is also an opportunity for abstract wikipedia even a one liner in every language is an important result particularly when it expands as more information becomes available in wikidata the objective is more eyeballs for what we have on offer wikifind will expose content from partners like internet archive it may expose content from youtube newspapers whatever when new content is to be exposed it is to be linked to a topic as known in wikidata the objective is to increase our public and i may rain on the parade of many improvements considered for wikipedia but will they improve quality or will they improve exposure improvements are nice to have exposure is a must have thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 10 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstract wikipedia exposure wikifind wikimedia foundation wikipedia saturday june 27 2026 professor commandeur goes to kenia a wikifind perspective at the celebration of 25 years nl wikipedia org there was a game and the objective was to meet and greet fellow wikipedians and learn about their claim to fame i am grateful that i went as i met so many wonderful people that i had not been in contact with for many years monica approached me and as we got acquainted i learned that she was a professor of the wageningen university i expected that she was known to wikidata i was surprised by the negative i attributed two papers to a newly minted wikidata identifier took a picture and added it to commons and hey presto there was a start of a scholia for monica a m commandeur we talked about vermiculture about african worms they have appendages a trip to kenya about orcid her identifier was not public and about youtube wikidata did not know about vermiculture it was thought to be the same as vermicompost and then i find an item without an english label african worms and their feet google is not my friend monica will travel to kenya we discussed why orcid is important it resulted in her opening up her orcid identifier the registration on youtube of a seminar has been made public now for me to find them in a previous post i proposed a new wikimedia project wikifind with a little effort professor commandeur has expandeded the presence for her work when organisations like orcid wmf crossref name them all collaborate on making freely available information findable we would do so much better in sharing the sum of all the knowledge available to us thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 3 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels orcid wikifind wikipedia friday june 19 2026 retracted and outdated sources from a wikimedia perspective a recent article related to the quality of wikipedia references indicates that when a paper is retracted the median time for a correction is 3 68 years there is a bot for that the retractionbot updated in 2024 the problem is that people have to use it and expecting wikipedia editors to continuously monitor every citation for new retractions is unrealistic however retracted papers are hardly our only problem information is often superseded in later publications this does not mean that earlier works are retracted it means that the information our articles are based on is stale there is no bot for that and expecting wikipedia editors to continuously monitoring for new information is unrealistic also as our existing content needs maintenance our public is diminishing and all our communities of volunteer contributors have their own objectives we have a problem what to do why not flip the script why not provide a search engine that includes all our references our articles and items we enrich it with information from retraction watch crossref orcid and obviously the internet archive as the new wikifind community adds new information items it links them to articles and items and builds a field with potential new references the objective of the wikifind search engine is to be informative and provide a structure that brings our projects together and present all of this to a new public the implementation should be similar to how we started commons at the time erik möller started a new wiki and only later did it serve images to wikipedia articles maybe a challenge this time thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 3 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels references retractions search wikifind wikimedia foundation thursday june 18 2026 ziyad al aly clinical epidemiologist from a wikimedia perspective ars technica featured an article heart protection from covid shots remains amid updates study finds the article refers to multiple studies and mentions ziyad al aly one of the authors of several of the studies when you consider dr al aly as a wikimedia consumer then his scholia produces the most entries into the wikimedia rabbit hole like publications co authors and topics drilling down a wikipedia article informs about his education and awards as a wikimedia contributor there is so much that can be done attributing articles adding missing articles thanks to the orcid scraper adding co authors to papers and then there is the deep dive adding for instance the awards known to the wikipedia for instance now for the wikimedia perspective it is losing its audience without an audience what motivates people to contribute without contributors who maintains our content its main perspective for the future should be how will we reach a public for the sum of all the knowledge we have on offer the essence of all that knowledge is in known references the ars technica article could obviously serve as a reference for wikimedia content when the wikimedia foundation were to offer references and sources in a search engine traditional wikimedia content is available for a deep dive when these sources are associated with topics that have a wikipedia article it also serves as a tool to update these articles a wmf search engine based on sources and references is not commercial would provide a distinct service and will entice renewed interest in its projects thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 1 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels orcid references search sources wikimedia foundation friday june 12 2026 about screw worms and the plague with a wikimedia angle screw worms and the plague are indigenous to the usa when left untreated they are deadly they appear regularly as key in the youtubes the algorithm presents me consequently i often add data on wikidata recently i did some work on kenneth l gage he is was with the cdc given the amount of papers to his name he has had a distinguished career mr cage has had many co authors many of them work worked at the cdc they are the ones who protect protected the usa against the plague at wikidata we know about mr gage his papers his expertise we could know about his career at the cdc and the careers of his co authors given that these are facts that you do not easily find anywhere else it easily gives the wmf a platform with established facts not necessarily neutral from a political point of view but verifiably true with a platform where youtubes get connected to wikimedia sources we could provide information that the usa press no longer offers they are bought and verifiably no longer bring the news all the news thanks gerardm posted by gerardm at 6 58 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to 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