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December 7, 2023

Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic
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Very interesting study, shows how toxic comments impact contributions. Gives a good idea of the probability for people to leave. In the case of Wikipedia this highlights reasons which contribute to the lack of diversity in the contributors. This is a complex community issue in general, this studies does a good thing by shedding some light on the dynamics in the case of Wikipedia.

Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge – Wikimedia Foundation
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Interesting move, I'm wondering how far this will go. Reuse of those functions in other Wikimedia project will be critical to its success.

PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks - The Verge
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If you can't download it without DRMs you just don't own it, you're renting it. This is completely different.

Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet
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The Large Language Model arm race is still going strong. Models are still mostly hidden behind APIs of course, and this is likely consuming lots of energy to run. Results seem interesting though, even though I suspect they're over inflating the "safety" built in all this. Also be careful of the demo videos, they've been reported as heavily edited and misleading...