Kate Zimmerman

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Sr Director, Research & Decision Science @wikimediafoundation, the non-profit that hosts #Wikipedia

Posts represent my own views.

More active on mastodon.social: @kzeta.

Photographs are my own, unless otherwise indicated (see details and attribution in the alt text). I do not knowingly post gen AI images (the exception might be if the post is specifically about gen AI, in which case I will clearly flag it as such).

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Header picture creditKate Zimmerman, photo of graffiti by Kate Zimmerman, Claudia Lo, Jennifer Wang, Jaime Anstee, Leila Zia, Fabian Kaelin, and Hamid Ghani

🗳️ The @wikimediafoundation 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey is live.

https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/552643

This survey is used to measure developer satisfaction & determine where to invest resources in the future.

Topics include: #Wikimedia Cloud Services, development and shared test environments, Phabricator, code review, continuous integration, deployment, #MediaWiki core backend components and APIs, technical documentation, & research needs.

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My #WikipediaYearInReview stats were... unexpected! But fun.

(Okay, maybe visiting the main page is not so unexpected. But the rest kinda surprised me.)

#Wikipedia #wrapped

My team members work behind the scenes to make data features like this come to life. It's cool to contribute to something fun like this! https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-year-in-review-2025/
Wikipedia’s Year in Review Is Fun, Fascinating, and a Little Bit Terrifying

Want to see which Wikipedia rabbit holes sucked up all your time and attention over 2025? Wikipedia will show you a personal year in review.

VICE
Cool

This is how you do it people. I feel like I could have written this article, as it is extremely detailed as to all of the valid reasons why they would want to ban such content from being associated with Nature.

Every journalistic & creative outlet you follow should be publishing something like this…and if not, demand it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01546-4

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video

Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with little more than rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. Easily lost, they are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃 This #Thanksgiving, celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/vanishing-culture-preserving-cookbooks/

#VanishingCulture

@kzeta @lunya indeed, even after knowing what's going on, it did feel really different!
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"propane powered flaming sousaphone" is definitely on my list of phrases I never expected to encounter. But I did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousaphone
#sousaphone #wikipedia
Sousaphone - Wikipedia

Wikipedia puzzle-ified version of the xkcd "Wikipedian Protester" comic. Just because I can.

https://wikipedia25-puzzle-graphics.toolforge.org/

Comic CC BY-NC 2.5 xkcd.com. Original: https://xkcd.com/285/

(edit: added a link to Wikipedia 25 puzzle tool)

#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25