Hi! I'm Damian, a Product Manager on the Future Audiences team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future_Audiences> at WMF. We concentrate on running experiments to learn how to bring in new audiences that otherwise might not be readers of and contributors to Wikipedia. It's great to see conversations about bringing Wikipedia to social media and other platforms! We've explored both fact-checking <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:Citation_Needed#> and social media <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Generated_Video>--I've added the MetaWiki links here if you'd be curious about learning more. I'd welcome any suggestions for new directions and experiments we can run to learn more about how we can bring Wikipedia and free knowledge to more people--feel free to shoot me an email or write on our talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_Audiences>!
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM ventolinmono--- via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Projects like this are very much needed if Wikipedia doesn't want to > lose its precarious position against social media and new AI based > search engines, possibly making it eventually redundant and obsolete. > New ways are needed in bringing not only more editors but also more > visitors and embedding Wikipedia in social media may be one of them. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Fredric Gorin <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: > > Bcc: > > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:02:15 -0800 > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could assist social media platforms > > Social media is a mixed blessing as it pertains to informational > content. On the positive side it democratizes access and informational > transmission to a much larger number of individuals who can report and > discuss information on an individual or tribal level. > > > > This strength is also the weakness of all social media platforms and > frankly threatening US democracy. Without being grounded by some > incontrovertible facts, , discussion of opinions morph into “alternative > facts”- “the scientific data on smoking causing cancer is still up for > debate”, “global warming from carbon dioxide emissions has not been > conclusively proven”, “the US lunar landing was faked”. Etc. > > > > Wikimedia could provide Wkipedia links during a social media discussion > upon the request of a participant (example “type Wkimedia’s version of > Chatgpt” or “ask Alexa”). > > > > The Wkipedia subject links would provide access on to peer-edited > information about a topic without Wikimedia offering a declaration of > “facts”. Wikipedia should preface the links by explaining how the > information is provided and curated. ‘Asking about the origins of Covid > virus” would expose social media participants to two points of view and > educate them that information is continually being refined toward a common > objective of veracity and not to provide “alternative truths”. Wikipedia > thus serves as a real time educational tool. > > > > A democracy only functions when its populace is educated to accept some > factual underpinnings “ozone layer was being destroyed by > fluorohydrocarbons” and corrective measures has permitted majorly recovery > of the ozone layer. > > > > The US political system is entering rocky waters as a semi-democracy > (see Economist magazine criteria) and the abilty to call a “WkikChatGPT” by > a participant from any platform in the middle of any discussion provides > informational grounding that is peer-reviewed and updated. It would > desirable when data is refuted (“the January 6 storming of the Capitol was > peaceful”) to provide a Wiki moderator (also ChatGPT) query about the facts > and assumptions underlying data refutation. > > > > Let me know if I can be helpful or why is not a useful endeavor. > WikipediaChatGPT will be summoned from outside ant social media platform > The AI will need to recognize that many questions are rhetorical and to > identify them as such. > > > > Let me know how I can be helpful or why this proposal is flawed > > > > Thanks > > > > Fredric Gorin MD PhD > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/3FTPTKYC5MEVILVVHDWZA2ICCBN32BG3/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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