Have you ever wondered who is behind Wikipedia? Lots of passionate and dedicated volunteers who often go unseen. Until now. 🧵⬇️ (1/4) - ThreadSky

wikipedia.org • 1 day ago

Have you ever wondered who is behind Wikipedia?

Lots of passionate and dedicated volunteers who often go unseen.

Until now. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

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iridescentaudio.bsky.social•1 day ago

Losing Wikipedia would be catastrophic. Please tell me that your data is secure and is mirrored at locations outside of the United States.

hollandamerica.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve been an huge fan and have donated for many years.
Everyone should support this magnificent project, an amazing, secure and reliable resource of knowledge.
Thank you @wikipedia.org

lovovmelife.bsky.social•1 day ago

I FUCKING LOVE WIKIPEDIA RAHHH

eldemocrato.bsky.social•1 day ago

DONATE DONATE DONATE.

There are TRILLIONS allied on the side of the techno-feudalists!

Put your money where your principles are!!

Donate to Wikimedia and progressive orgs like them.

yourgfhayley.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow, u will tell the world who published the article?

kaneclements11.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. I donate when asked. Brill resource.

👍🙂 to you all.

wikipedia.org•1 day ago

wikipedia.org•1 day ago

Get to know Carol, a volunteer from Kenya. With over 2,000 edits across Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, Carol is actively working to increase the amount of reliable information about women on the free encyclopedia, while also supporting rising editors. (2/4)

wikipedia.org•1 day ago

Some of Carol's valuable contributions, from adding citations to uploading photos, can be found in this collage.

This year, Carol is one of the organizers behind Wikimania, the annual conference that celebrates free knowledge, which will be taking place this August in Nairobi, Kenya. (3/4)

wikipedia.org•1 day ago

Read more about Carol and learn how Wikipedia is celebrating women editors from Africa ➡️

https://wikimediafoundation.org/knowledge-is-her
#KnowledgeIsHuman (4/4)

sobekhotep97.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s because of people like Carol that I donate to Wikipedia!

margaretmorgan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Me too.

morissaschwartz.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a hero! Thank you for your amazing work, Carol! 🤩🤩

dadhyde.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let's hear it for Steeevennnn Pruuuuuuitt!

supergovernance.bsky.social•1 day ago

You should consider moving your head office to Canada.

msocsci.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why do you protect prominent fascists pages though? Wiki used to be so much better when the public could shame them by altering their pages to make their fascist actions look stupid.

cybonk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wikipedia - the Last Bastion of the Golden Age of the Internet.

eldiablojuancarlos.bsky.social•1 day ago

Always happy to donate to Wiki fund raisers. Worth every penny and then some and then multiply by a large number

wolfe20.bsky.social•1 day ago

I posted 30 minutes before this: "Google's AI Overview is blatantly an adulterated plagiarism of Wikipedia.
Using the labor of a valuable nonprofit for corporate profit. Capitalism!" I am an atheist, but weird universe energy sometimes.

dann1960.bsky.social•1 day ago

My subscription is invaluable.

lindsay40k.bsky.social•1 day ago

Jimmy Wales is a wasteman

seca550.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Totally gamed

effingdrew.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a bunch of nerds.
I trust you. I like nerds.

fjordfnord.bsky.social•21 hours ago

If the only woman to feature you could find has 2k edits that's more telling about Wikipedia than anything else. WP top editors have usually edits numbering in the hundred thousands if not millions.

secretariatgirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

I donate!

pessimistpayasam.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not a good political climate to parade your editors.

They absolutely deserve it. But please protect their privacy for a few more years.

broken-vessel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wikipedia doesn't have any idea who editors are unless the editor reveals their own identity - Carol would've had to volunteer for this

cybonk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good point. But I am still now very concerned for Carol.

liquefire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Frankly that is how it should be… anyone who wants to be known isnt doing it for the greater good IMO

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