I don’t get the hype for AI when you have Wiki. When they don’t know something, my students are like “let’s ask chat GPT” and I’m always “No, let’s look at Wikipedia”. Truly the greatest website and the proof that we could do anything if we decided to work together.
The LLMs are often paraphrasing Wikipedia in my experience, to the extent the Wiki Foundation is begging AI companies to top scraping and use the API to help bear some of the costs, because the machines are starting to represent a big hosting strain on them. Wikipedia is also rather unusual among top websites in still hosting stuff themselves on servers they own, rather than contract out to AWS or another middle man.
Donated again today - give them a buck if you have one to spare. The internet would be worse without Wikipedia.
I donate monthly. The world would be worse without Wikipedia.
They also sell merch!
Oh? Do they have a mascot I can get a plushy of? 😮
In addition to donating: if you find a Wikipedia page on a topic that you’re well versed in and you see that there may be an old mistake or new knowledge on this topic, go ahead and make an edit to the page. You don’t need to make an account, editing is fairly straightforward, and it helps keep Wikipedia an accurate source of knowledge for any topic.
Fun fact: There is a Scottish Wikipedia and you can read it with some effort even if you don’t know Scottish.
Wikipedia.
Bikibebia
Vickypedia!
Bogos binted
May it hold through these trying times 🙏
Can you imagine going back to ancient times, finding Pythagoras (or any of the other braniacs) and explaining how we have a repository of human knowledge that can be accessed and edited by anyone
they would nut so hard
I’m surprised the page title hasn’t been edited to include (The Greatest Website in History).
I’ll drink to that
