[Wikimedia-l] Reminder – expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and 2025 (deadline December 16th)

Dear all, Wikimania is an extraordinary event: consider hosting it!! By December 16th express your interest in hosting Wikimania in 2024, 2025 and beyond https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Expressions_of_Interest You d

[Wikimedia-l] ChatGPT and Wikipedia

Is this Ai software using info from Wikipedia directly or indirecly, and if not is it an alternative way of storing knowledge to the wikiway? Anders ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT and Wikipedia

It's trained on Wikipedia. Here's a 2020 paper from the authors. I would argue it's violating the copyright but I'm aware the foundation isn't very interested in defending it. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 10:42 AM Anders Wennersten wrote: > Is this Ai software using i

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Just to remind you, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio is one of the Wikimedia Foundation's unelected trustees. He publicly supported the infamous "monkey" NFTs, widely thought to mirror racist tropes,* and used one as his social media avatar when first appointed to the board. In the last 24 hours a class act

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

I am sincerely interested in your views on the open source movement, the for-profit exploitation of Wikinedia, the role of the Foundation in protecting the intellectual property interests of Wikimedia contributors, and the role of influential technologists in promoting financially and environmental

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

I would like to submit that I personally found SJ's characterizations of other contributors' legitimate concerns and critiques as "light hazing" to be offensively dismissive, but if SJ helps facilitate an honest and respectful attempt by Luis and the board to answer those concerns I will happily ea