Hello everyone,
We want to share with you a blog post and a report (longer version) on a
technical workshop series conducted as part of the Small wiki toolkits
(SWT) initiative in June for the Indic community.
The blog post summarizes the planning that went into designing the workshop
series, key
For better or worse, it seems clear that the cat is out of the bag.
Identity detection through stylometry is now an established technology and
you can easily find code on GitHub or elsewhere (e.g.
https://github.com/jabraunlin/reddit-user-id) to accomplish it (if you have
the time and energy to bui
Thanks Amir for having this conversation here.
On Nathan's point: outside the Wikimedia projects, we of the free
culture movement tend to argue for full transparency on the functioning
of "automated decision making", "algorithmic tools" , "forensic
software" and so on, typically ensured by open da
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki
1.35.0-rc.1, the second release candidate for 1.35.x, the next LTS version
to replace 1.31 which is due to go end of life in June 2021. Download links
at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git.
Please note th
As others, I see several problems
1. If the code is public, someone can duplicate it and bypass our internal
'safekeeping', because it uses public data.
2. Risk of misuse by either incompetence or malice
3. Risk of accidentally exposing legitimate sockpuppets even in the most closed
off situation
