Andreas Kolbe

In the new Signpost: * Court orders redaction of Caesar DePaço article * Most-translated article revealed as single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history * Mass use of checkuser tool by WMF employee triggers investigation, policy changes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

@EllieAsksWhy Interesting. The article lasted only three weeks at that title before being merged into #Group-based_child_sexual_exploitation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex… Meanwhile, an article has been created on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_… which is now also a candidate for merging.

Details freilich-magazin.com/gesellschaft/g…

"Grooming gang moral panic in the UK" is Wikipedia description. Attributes UK crisis to falsehoods spread by far-right ... sigh, this is shameful. Article title was "Muslim grooming gangs in the UK" until Oct 2024 cc @Wikiland

German Wikipedia articles – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says 20% are outdated, and a similar number contain errors of fact archive.md/U1UpS

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A new Signpost is out! * Saudi Wikipedian released from prison * Wikimedia Foundation launches review of Wikipedias' NPoV (Neutral Point of View) policies * Wikipedia probably not among the victims of Google's "AI Overviews" and more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Different languages, different images, different realities: German: de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti… Spanish: es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti… English: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti… (X can't handle the links for Arabic and Hebrew; these can be accessed from the English article via the left sidebar.)

The War of Images. The German and Hebrew Wikipedias share the dubious distinction of showing no pictures of Palestinian suffering in their articles on the Gaza war. (The Arabic Wikipedia, conversely, shows no pictures of Israeli suffering.)

@ALQST_En @Wikipedia For background see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

🕊️ Ziyad al-Sufiani has been released after over four and a half years of arbitrary imprisonment. He was an Arabic @Wikipedia administrator, arrested for editing pages like that of Saudi WHRD Loujain al-Hathloul. His fellow Wikipedian Osama Khalid (see below) remains in prison.

Osama Khalid, a medical doctor and @Wikipedia administrator, worked to make well-sourced knowledge freely available on the site. He is currently serving a 32-year prison term on trumped up charges including of “swaying public opinion”. Saudi authorities must release him now.

@MariaMelonello Deinen Fall werde ich ebenfalls mit dem Support-Koordinator zur Sprache bringen. Die Support-Message, die du erhalten hast (anke für die Dokumentation), finde ich nicht in Ordnung. (Du kannst mir auch gerne eine DM schicken.) Gruß

Wie entsperrt man ein Wikipedia-Konto? Haltet Euch fest! Es wird eklig. Die falschen Gründe, die zu meiner Sperrung führten, findet Ihr unten. Bei Interesse könnt Ihr hier anschauen, wie eine Sperrprüfung beantragt wird, also normalerweise. 1/🧵 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

@MariaMelonello Hallo Maria, ein Kollege hat ein Schiedsgericht-Verfahren für Benutzer:Stemplritter beantragt. Siehe laufende Diskussion: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia… Weißt du, wie man diese/n Benutzer/in erreichen kann, um sie auf die Anfrage aufmerksam zu machen?

A powerful conservative think tank is targeting one of the last good things on the internet. slate.trib.al/lxqWc7Z

@EllieAsksWhy There is also a new round of grantees for the Knowledge Equity Fund: @lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LJOB7P23SKIUEHWHL5LYCQTIKGGVVHKR/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis… Haven't looked at details yet.

@EllieAsksWhy Thanks, I hadn't seen that one. It mentions the $20M loss that the WMF divulged after enquiries on Jimbo's talk. It was covered in The Signpost at the time. At some point (last year?) the Endowment funds were moved to a standalone 501(c)3. Tides' next 990 should show details.

@Wikiland This is from ProPublica for Wikimedia (foundation not endowment) in 2023. 44.5% of all expenses ($77 million) were 'other wages'?! Contributions were $173.5 million projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…

@EllieAsksWhy They do have several million dollars in payroll taxes. See page 10, Part IX, line item 10. This is included in line item 15 on the page 1 overview (which sums the amounts in "Part IX, column (A), lines 5-10)". 😉

@Wikiland It is a 501(c)(3) so no taxes. You're correct; it is understated. You can see all the documents that were filed with the IRS for 2023 in first tweet URL. $96.8M was for 2022. This is the same chart for 2022. Kathleen Maher $789K vs Marie Iskander $512K 👀

Stephen Harrison is always worth reading on Wikipedia: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Renewed discussions of Wikimedia fundraising banner and email texts. #Community-established_limits_on_banner_language" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Wikimedia Foundation asked community to come up with a "movement charter" in order to share money and power more equitably. Volunteers invest literally years of work. Outcome? Wikimedia Foundation decides it didn't really want to share power THAT way. @lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LGIJGANBXJ47OWLTYRCXRTMLO7TARZ7C/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…