Andrew Lih

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Author of The Wikipedia Revolution; Wikimedian at Large, Smithsonian Institution, USA; ex-journalism professor at Columbia, USC, American U #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Wikidata #GLAMwiki #OpenGLAM #GLAM #openknowledge #opendata
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Andrew LihJan 29, 2024
annie rauwerdaJan 27, 2024
My letter to the editor made it into this month's Harper's!! tldr: Wikipedia is great and degrading it is not so great
Andrew LihDec 11, 2023
I asked DALL-E to create stickers to illustrate collaboration in the #Wikimedia movement. They are quite impressive but what's curious is the laptops almost always wind up with an Apple logo on them. Is this just an artifact that a lot of the training data in DALL-E are the ubiquitous Mac laptops? #Wikipedia
Andrew LihDec 1, 2023
David GerardDec 1, 2023

twitter's business model was simple:

1. celebrities show their entire arses
2. normal people hurl rotten tomatoes at them
3. show ads to group 2.

it is not clear that a single person at twitter understood this

Andrew LihDec 1, 2023
Not your typical @wikipedia hatnote. But for George Santos, something special. #Wikipedia #Wikimedia @depthsofwiki
Andrew LihOct 31, 2023
historic drystone sheep dykeOct 31, 2023
Congrats to the anonymous furry who made it onto the English wikipedia front page by standing next to a freddy fazbear cosplayer
Andrew LihOct 31, 2023
yuvipandaOct 31, 2023
Can you imagine if Elon Musk could *buy* wikipedia? Put your shit in non-profits people.
Andrew LihOct 31, 2023
Jason EvansOct 31, 2023

I was recently interviewed for this great piece on the #onlinesafetybill which, in its current form, threatens the very existence of #Wikipedia in Wales and the rest of the UK .

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How the new UK tech law hurts Wikipedia

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Andrew LihOct 30, 2023
Interesting: Web Summit has named a new CEO: Katherine Maher — previously CEO and executive director of the @wikimediafoundation (between 2019 and 2021) #Wikimedia #Wikipedia https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/30/web-summit-ceo-katherine-maher/
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Show threadAndrew LihSep 8, 2023
Oh, and also add Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth who was posted to "Recent deaths" but was pulled off later on. #WikipediaITN #wikipedia #wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#(Pulled)_RD:_Steve_Harwell
Show threadAndrew LihSep 8, 2023
Other famous folks who never made it to the front page of #WikipediaITN "Recent deaths" section, despite being very famous: Alan Thicke, Merle Haggard, Norm MacDonald. They all have the unusual quality of being famous but not famous enough to have a fleet of fans to reference their filmography/discography fully. #Wikipedia #Wikimedia