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Back in autumn of 2020 we had an school assignment to edit #Wikipedia. We were then going to follow what would happen with that edit for a couple days.

Some didn't have enough understanding of what goes into an edit, and got it quickly rolled back either by bots or by humans (and our school's IP very quickly got blocked as they usually end up being on Wikipedia, for those who weren't making the edits at home). I of course knew a bit more and made a good edit to a page adding some info with the necessary references attached to it.

But one classmate of mine had another idea. What if, we embed a little bit of a hoax in an existing page, add some tangentially related references from credible sources to disguise it, and see how long it will last? Our teacher and us two would end up speculating on how long it would stay up before someone took notice.

It ended up surviving the first weeks where it would have been scrutinised by bots and humans lurking the Recent Changes page. And after that point it seems like it would end up remaining there.

We then graduated in 2023 and the edit was still there at that point. Fast forward to today and it is still there, 5 years later...

...Uh, maybe it's time to say something about it by now? I probably should.

Wikipedia @wikimediauk are going to court over the UK Online Safety Act!

Saddling platforms with hefty duties and penalties under the new regime will cause many safe sites to fold.

We can't lose the best of the web due to laws that were meant to tackle the worst of it.

#SaveOurSites

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j2g

BBC NewsWikipedia legally challenges 'flawed' online safety rulesIt argues the regulations could threaten the privacy and safety of Wikipedia's volunteer contributors.

Alors je suis devenu hyper fan de l’application #Wikipedia pour mon téléphone, pour une raison géniale : l’utilisation de la géo-localisation pour identifier et lire des articles sur des lieux proche de soit. Et quand on découvre qu’un lieu proche de chez soit abritait une carrière gauloise et un fort, c’est vraiment trop cool.

Last week in Leiden, Brewster Kahle was presented with the 2024 ProjectUil by the Dutch Wikipedia community. He explained how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has helped fix millions of broken links, ensuring citations on Wikipedia remain valid and accessible across multiple language editions.

🔗 veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #OpenKnowledge #Wikipedia

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It would be wise for these companies to begin prioritizing the ongoing health of the commons. It would also be wise for the rest of us to not rely on AI companies to come to their senses or develop a conscience en masse, and instead force them to engage on creators’ terms.

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The free and open access vision is inspiring, but there are instances in which people who freely license their work go “wait, no, not like that”. People reselling their free works, tech companies profiting off their FOSS code, and AI companies training on their material.