Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools

theregister
Many here are familiar with @alexia 's No-AI list as well as the Slopfree Software Index

Both list FOSS projects with policies of rejecting AI contributions.

I wondered if such a thing existed for wikis. There is now!
https://git.average.name/1something/No-AI-Wikis

#Wikis
Starlight Network No-AI List

"Aggressive #AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run #wikis" https://weirdgloop.org/blog/clankers
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis

Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in the last few months.

Weird Gloop

New post: The Markdown Link no. 30

Among today’s links are markdown editors Upnote, Seychl, HedgeDoc and Apostrophe. Plus we look at Deckless, a markdown to slide presentation tool that turns its back on the world of proprietary formats, and DokuWiki, which is going native on us by introducing markdown support

https://md-handbook.com/blog/markdown-link-no-30/

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #wikis #slides #Upnote #Seychl #HedgeDoc #Apostrophe #Deckless #DokuWiki #Joplin

New post: The Markdown Link no. 29

Today’s links include markdown editors Brainio, Tokyo Notes and Nota. Plus a look at MarkMello, a markdown viewer with a built-in editing mode, and Zim Wiki, which is described as a graphical text editor

https://md-handbook.com/blog/markdown-link-no-29/

#markdown #markdowneditors #opensource #wikis #viewers #Brainio #TokyoNotes #Nota #MarkMello #ZimWiki

How I Use Feather Wiki as a Private Brain Dump Tool

Discover Feather Wiki, a FOSS lightweight and customizable personal private web notebook, with multi-device sync via Syncthing and Android support using Termux.

BurgeonLab
Voting is open for the Miraheze board of directors!
https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Community_Directors/Elections/2026/Nominations

Three candidates are running for two seats, including two incumbents and one challenger.

#Miraheze #Wikis #Wikiverse
Community Directors/Elections/2026/Nominations - Miraheze Meta

On this page, you could nominate your fellow wiki editors and community members to serve as Community Directors on WikiTide's Board of Directors. Nominations are...

Miraheze Meta

#Wikis accounts to follow:

WIKIS
@FRWiki - Wiki for Forgotten Realms fantasy setting
@eberronwiki - Wiki for the Eberron fantasy world
@MinecraftWikiEN - Unofficial wiki for Minecraft
@camerawiki - Camera & lens models wiki
@opelex - Wiki for open source electronics designs
@botwiki - Catalogue of good useful bots, info on creating bots
@wikidata - Free open collaboratively edited knowledge base

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