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Another little tool thanks to #chatgpt! Some students asked me this week an easy way to find images that you can freely use on any website. Here it is: find creative common images in Google, Bing and Wikimedia. Enjoy.
imagesniper.eu twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
imagesniper.eu twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Happy to announce that I just launched free.imagesniper.eu . Search for pics that you can freely modify, share, and use. The other one, imagesniper.eu is for creative common licenses, which means way more images, but often you have to attribute the source. (2/2)
So the choice is: search for creative commons images on #Google, #Bing, or #Wikimedia with imagesniper.eu (more choice, sometimes attribution needed) or free.imagesniper.eu (less choice, but permission to modify, share, and use commercially without mentioning source.
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten…
#Pluralistic 1/
The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy.
Hey look at this 3/
Hey look at this 3/
1/ 🧵 Here are some of the things about the alleged #Saudi interference in #Wikipedia, the related bans of Arabic Wikipedia admins enachted by the #Wikimedia Foundation, and the Wikipedians jailed in Saudi Arabia that keep getting missed, or are misreported.
2/ The two Wikipedians jailed for 8 and 32 years respectively were arrested in summer 2020. One had his sentence increased from 5 to 32 years in summer 2022. dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-g… They were volunteer editors – hobbyists, not Wikimedia staff.
3/ Neither of the jailed Wikipedians was an administrator at the time of their arrest. They had their admin rights withdrawn years before, because they weren’t using them: xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-rightschang… xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-rightschang… They were still active editors though.
Now an Ars Technica article quoting a cryptic #Wikimedia statement saying there are “material inaccuracies” in the reports.
“There was no finding in our investigation that the Saudi government ‘infiltrated’ or penetrated Wikipedia’s highest ranks”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
“There was no finding in our investigation that the Saudi government ‘infiltrated’ or penetrated Wikipedia’s highest ranks”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
“And there are in fact no ‘ranks’ among Wikipedia admins … While we do not know where these volunteers actually reside, the bans of any volunteers who may have been Saudi were part of a much broader action globally banning 16 editors across the MENA region.”—#Wikimedia statement
Full #Wikimedia statement on the Saudi Arabia story now published on the Wikimedia-l mailing list:
lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…
lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/lis…
1/🧵 Another week of exciting content on the #WalledCulture blog:
➡️ @glynmoody covered how digital images of #PublicDomain works get captured, why #artist nor #academics should sign away their rights, & why Singapore 🇸🇬 sets an example to follow with its updated Copyright Law 👇
➡️ @glynmoody covered how digital images of #PublicDomain works get captured, why #artist nor #academics should sign away their rights, & why Singapore 🇸🇬 sets an example to follow with its updated Copyright Law 👇
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👉 Cultural digitisation for the many, or cultural depredation for the few: time to choose
walledculture.org/cultural-digit…
#Museums #ArtGalleries #PublicDomain #GLAM #CHIs #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WalledCulture
👉 Cultural digitisation for the many, or cultural depredation for the few: time to choose
walledculture.org/cultural-digit…
#Museums #ArtGalleries #PublicDomain #GLAM #CHIs #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WalledCulture
3/🧵
👉 Why are #TaylorSwift and #academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
walledculture.org/why-are-taylor…
#WalledCulture
👉 Why are #TaylorSwift and #academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
walledculture.org/why-are-taylor…
#WalledCulture
This Friday, I'll be speaking at #MozFest2021 w/ @credcoalition's #wikicred about my work w/ @datajournalism and @artandfeminism. Tickets are free. Link to join schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/NH7LNH…
The conversation will largely be about the relationship between #Wikimedia projects (mostly Wikipedia & Wikidata it seems) & credibility in the information ecosystem. Panelists are doing projects on ways to improve citations, a citation "bias checker," & user-experience research.
I'll talk about @artandfeminism #wikicred research on shortcomings of user-governance, specifically problems w what counts as "reliable source" in French, English & Spanish Wikipedias. Sources about marginalized communities can be excluded by source interpretation & patrol work
A Thread About Disappearing History on Wikipedia
1. Once upon a time, Wikipedia had a page about a company named Degussa.
Degussa had an ugly past, related to the extermination of the Jews in Europe.
(Today, that page exists only in the internet archive.)
web.archive.org/web/2006102408…
1. Once upon a time, Wikipedia had a page about a company named Degussa.
Degussa had an ugly past, related to the extermination of the Jews in Europe.
(Today, that page exists only in the internet archive.)
web.archive.org/web/2006102408…
Degussa's Degesch created Zyklon B.
"In 1930, Degussa ceded 42.5 percent ownership of Degesch to IG Farben and 15 percent to Th. Goldschmidt AG, in exchange for the right to market pesticide products of those two companies through Degesch. Degussa retained managerial control."
"In 1930, Degussa ceded 42.5 percent ownership of Degesch to IG Farben and 15 percent to Th. Goldschmidt AG, in exchange for the right to market pesticide products of those two companies through Degesch. Degussa retained managerial control."
Holocaust scholars have published lots of studies about Degussa
Today, we are at the beautiful campus of @jncasr Bangalore for our #Wikipedia edit a thon for Indian Women in Science
Smita Jain begins the proceedings with an overview of IndiaBioscience and its activities in the area of networking, communication, skill building, resources, data and policy discussions
Shobhana Narasimha begins her talk on "Women in Science - Enigmas, Challenges and Successes" asking people to close their eyes and visualize the picture that comes to mind when they think of "Scientist".
