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This paper demonstrates that a small coordinated Wikipedia editing campaign can measurably shape how language models handle topics, using animal welfare as a case study.
Wikipedia workers in Britain are seeking union recognition for the first time globally, requesting representation by the United Tech and Allied Workers section of the Communication Workers Union.
UK-based staff at the Wikimedia Foundation are seeking voluntary union recognition from management, citing concerns over transparency and direction after recent tensions including the disbanding of a key team.
Workers at the Wikimedia Foundation in the UK are seeking union recognition through the United Tech and Allied Workers, marking a global first for Wikipedia employees.
The article details the investigation into the origin of the name 'Zork' for the classic text adventure game, tracing Wikipedia edits and uncovering conflicting sources about whether 'zork' was a jargon word for unfinished programs or simply a nonsense word.
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Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike after the Wikimedia Foundation laid off its Community Tech team, leading to concerns about union-busting and diminished support for volunteers.
The article reports that the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the Community Tech team, both actions targeting union organizers, prompting Wikipedia editors to threaten a strike in solidarity while the Foundation holds substantial financial reserves.
The author investigates the conflicting origins of the word 'zork' as a jargon term for unfinished programs at MIT, uncovering discrepancies in Wikipedia's sources and correcting their own earlier claims.
TailedTS is a large-scale benchmark dataset derived from Wikipedia hourly page views, designed for evaluating time series models under heavy-tailed and non-Gaussian conditions. It includes a periodicity quantification framework and standardized prediction benchmarks using robust loss functions.
A web tool that lets you browse Wikipedia using a Windows XP desktop interface, offering a nostalgic experience.
Andrew Ng discusses the nuanced impact of AI on the job market, noting that while widespread layoffs are overhyped, AI skills are becoming crucial. The newsletter also covers news about OpenClaw, Kimi's open model, Ministral distilled, and Wikipedia's partners.
OpenAI researchers present a novel approach to entity disambiguation using type discovery, where a system predicts entity types from a pre-chosen category set to resolve ambiguous references. The method achieves state-of-the-art results on entity disambiguation datasets and enables efficient O(N) runtime entity ranking through type-based weighting.