Open source advocate, former PostgreSQL major contributor, Firefox SVP, and now CPTO, Wikimedia Foundation. I have a work account now at wikimedia.social/selenadeckelmann.
This space is mostly for sharing thinking about volunteers, AI and how to do good work for people rather than profit. Also enjoy cooking and baking, lifting weights and parenting.
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25 years of Wikipedia
From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history. I took the quiz!
https://wikipedia25.org/en/which-wikipedia-of-the-future-are-you
If you are curious how Wikipedians manage the editorial process for articles, the Wikimedia Foundation has documented it for you: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/09/18/keeping-information-reliable/
This system was created and evolved over 25 years. It’s a living system and keeps changing and improving.
Saw an influencer trying out some “squatting on your toilet” trend, being scolded for doing something dangerous and then diving down a Wikipedia hole on toilet-related deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet-related_injuries_and_deaths
Blessed are the list-makers!
I could use some new sci-fi book recommendations. Can you give me some?
About me: Series are nice. I like physical books, so not into ebook only recommendations. Have read and liked: most Octavia Butler, all Iain Banks, Asimov and Thomas Covenant series (when I was a teen), Murderbot series and other stuff by Martha Wells, Three body problem etc, Andy Weir, Nnedi Okorafor, NK Jemisin, Rivers Solomon, Kameron Hurley, Ann Leckie. I have some one-off books but hopeful that gives you an idea!
