In this course of researching his work this week, I noticed that Shmul Lehman (folklorist, 1886ā1941) didn't have an English #wikipedia biography, only Polish. something within my ability to fix at least. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Lā¦
"Every month, Wikipediaās 64 million articles in more than 300 languages receive 15 billion visits. At the time of writing, it is the ninth-most visited website in the world."
Worth defending it against the Sangers and Musks of this world...
The internet is typically defined by conflict. Yet a crowdsourced encyclopedia, open for anyone to edit, has transformed into one of the world's most essential knowledge hubs
UGH. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse. After my self-diagnosis at age 67 in late 2024, I thought I'd taken the measure of the depth of prejudice against #autistics when I learned that #filicide was an issue in my new-found community. But just now I learned, from a "Because you read" list in the #Wikipedia app, that some potential #AutismMoms aren't even willing to risk the possibility of one of us being born ā or to wait for it to happen. Apparently "Prenatal screening for autism" is a thing. I haven't yet read this article; I just now discovered that it existed. But skimming the first paragraphs, it appears that the concept is too much even for Simon #BaronCohen; he has apparently denounced the practice as a form of #eugenics:
Links: bemanning van de MS van Linschoten vangt een haai uit de Indische Oceaan. Rechts: kapitein van het schip navigeert de Straat Malakka, Ed van der Elsken, 1959
Ich weiĆ zu wenig Ć¼ber Deutschland, Ćsterreich und die Schweiz (D-A-CH). Das geht so nicht weiter! Also such ich mir jetzt einfach jeden Tag random einen Wikipedia-Artikel, der Landschaften, Orte, historische Events und Besonderheiten dieser drei LƤnder bespricht von denen ich bisher noch nicht oder zu wenig wusste.
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āEverything about Wikipedia is a worship of expertise,ā aid its co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with Nature.
Thatās the part of the approach that makes it so valuable ā and one of the reasons why researchers should take the time to get involved.
As the web gets ever more polarized and swamped with untrustworthy content, "editors who are fair and civil, and who know how to weigh up evidence, are sorely needed.ā
I've been reading more #Wikipedia articles on #autism-related topics. I'm currently in the middle of the article on "Theory of mind". I've criticized the "theory of mind deficit" theory before, as both misleading and demeaning. But I was still unprepared for one revelation from the Wiki: the "theory of mind deficit" theory wasn't even developed as a way of understanding #autistics. It was introduced by Premack and Woodruff as a way of understanding CHIMPANZEES, and adapted by Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith to apply to us! Apparently it didn't occur to them that it might be problematic to use the term "theory" so broadly as to refer to any mental structure used to comprehend other minds — however lacking it might be in the explicitness and logical structure implied by that term. Or that it might be MORE problematic to do so in reference to autistics than in reference to chimpanzees. Thus it was that the scie
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I've been reading more #Wikipedia articles on #autism-related topics. I'm currently in the middle of the article on "Theory of mind". I've criticized the "theory of mind deficit" theory before, as both misleading and demeaning. But I was still unprepared for one revelation from the Wiki: the "theory of mind deficit" theory wasn't even developed as a way of understanding #autistics. It was introduced by Premack and Woodruff as a way of understanding CHIMPANZEES, and adapted by Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith to apply to us! Apparently it didn't occur to them that it might be problematic to use the term "theory" so broadly as to refer to any mental structure used to comprehend other minds ā however lacking it might be in the explicitness and logical structure implied by that term. Or that it might be MORE problematic to do so in reference to autistics than in reference to chimpanzees. Thus it was that the science of autism lent credibility to a confusion between our comparative lack of INTUITIVE understanding of other minds, and our supposed inability even to understand the CONCEPT of other minds.
Premack D, Woodruff G (December 1978). "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1 (4): 515ā526. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00076512.
Baron-Cohen S, Leslie AM, Frith U (October 1985). "Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"?" (PDF). Cognition. 21 (1): 37ā46. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8. PMID 2934210. S2CID 14955234. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2017.
@davidculley Iāve never seen this before and was not aware #perplexity āthe #gazagenocide denying chatbot āfact checkedā for Ben Shapiroā¦ not surprising theyāre desperate to create their own #Wikipedia
> Itās pretty clear that Wikipedia is biased. Iām happy to support anyone who wants to build an alternative to it thatās more neutral and unbiased using Perplexity APIs. Itās a long project that needs serious commitment. So, please ping if you want to do it. > > ā Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) [January 14, 2025](twitter.com/AravSrinivas/statuā¦)
This is also a major issue on Wikipedia at the moment: Russian trolls have been trying to change the birthplaces of Baltic figures to Estonian/Latvian/Lithuanian SSR ā which, if successful, means that Wikipedia is recognising an occupation as legitimate (which major Western nations, including the US, did not even do at the time).
Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday this month. Given the centrality of Wikipedia to so much activity online, it is hard to remember (or to imagine, for those who are younger) a time without Wikipedia.
