Molly WhiteHave you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.
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this was inspired by some conversations on bluesky, where people have been concerned that #Wikipedia might become overwhelmed by AI-generated #enshittification. https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3km4ejpq7kt2s
if that worries you too, the number one thing you can do is learn how to edit.
Daedalous Eros@molly0xfff Another thing that can be done: copy the contents of pages that you care about, this way there's a reliable fall back if someone tries to use AI to fuck it up. Web archival is more important than ever before.
@daedalousilios FWIW there are a lot of ongoing, regular backups of all Wikipedia content to various sources like archive.org, so if someone doesn't have the capacity to do backups themselves that's okay. More on backups at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
@molly0xfff That's very comforting to know! This entire thread gives me comfort that this is the one, sacred relic of the internet that will be preserved as long as there's even a few dedicated hands that care to do so.
Yuki "neige d'aout" Hazuki 葉月膤 ❄️ 🏳️⚧️@daedalousilios @molly0xfff Also: Wikipedia saves the history of every page (save for a few cases like deleted pages and copyright infrigement), so it does pretty much act as its own Internet Archive right from its own interface!