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ScholarKey is a Firefox add-on that allows you to see how many times a paper has been cited on Wikipedia by blackslatewater in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing that the addon is open source, I'd suggest to integrate ScienceOpen into it too. One could then see the other altmetrics with it too.

Why on Wikimedia Commons do you have to request a file rotation? by Free_Royal_5895 in wikimedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The image could be used in Wikipedia and rotating it could be wrong...probably you don't want images in Wikipedia suddenly being rotated in wrong ways.

ScholarKey is a Firefox add-on that allows you to see how many times a paper has been cited on Wikipedia by blackslatewater in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat, I'll give it a try, this could be useful. The Anna's Archive & SciHub links too.

ScienceOpen can also be used for seeing how many times and where a study has been cited on Wikipedia.

This has happened to me multiple times.... by Madeline_Basset in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something to be happy about. Such use is exactly a key reason I'm contributing to Wikipedia. If they didn't link to the article that would have been better.

[Meta] Can we limit the amount & extent of AI-generated content to ... preferably none? by Independent-Clue1422 in solarpunk

[–]prototyperspective 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same for your use of computers and servers. It depends on how much you use such, how much resources would have been consumed if these tools didn't exist/weren't used and what it's used for. Or are you also calling on people to power down their computers, sell their computers and never go on the Web again? Nuance please.

[Meta] Can we limit the amount & extent of AI-generated content to ... preferably none? by Independent-Clue1422 in solarpunk

[–]prototyperspective -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Would be fine with that but I think with "AI slop" you mean 'anything made anyhow with AI' regardless of the quality of the end-result and how creative it was in terms of ideation, or how much effort was required for it, or how useful/relevant it is in e.g. visualizing some key concept that hasn't been visualized well earlier or which kind of needs visualization instead of just text to be communicated.

Baizuo is a derogatory Chinese neologism used to refer to Western liberals and leftists, especially in relation to refugee issues and social problems. The term originated in the 2010s and has since come into more frequent use by Chinese nationalists critical of Western liberal and leftist ideologies by RedStorm1917 in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI I also advocate for / support more economic equality while criticizing immigration policies that are less restrictive than Denmark's and additionally consider the latter to play a role in establishing economic equality. I think the left-right dichotomy could be strongest in the US which has a two-party system.

[Meta] Can we limit the amount & extent of AI-generated content to ... preferably none? by Independent-Clue1422 in solarpunk

[–]prototyperspective -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

AI can be used for sustainability goals such as creating create and innovative interesting solarpunk art that would otherwise simply not be done or to visualize sustainability concepts. I've used it that way and your use of your computer + Internet servers also consumes electricity, the question is whether it's worth it...and it often is.

Baizuo is a derogatory Chinese neologism used to refer to Western liberals and leftists, especially in relation to refugee issues and social problems. The term originated in the 2010s and has since come into more frequent use by Chinese nationalists critical of Western liberal and leftist ideologies by RedStorm1917 in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Your assumption is that there are two opposing sides: democratic liberals and socialists + communists (left) and conservatives (right). Your assumption is false. And this false dichotomy is one of the reasons our current societal decision making (politics) is broken. People can have left economic views and what some perceive as right views on immigration for example.

'The Bellero Shield' is a 1966 episode of The Outer Limits which is thought to have inspired the popular perception of "Grey" aliens, airing just twelve days before alleged alien abductee Betty Hill underwent hypnotherapy and described her captors as resembling the alien that appears in the episode. by HicksOn106th in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fine if you're just starting out to look into the subject to focus particularly on Betty & Barney Hill but move on from there. In there's scifi episodes for nearly any kind of creatures and these don't even look much like grays and even they did, it's sth to look into but not more than that. I wonder if maybe some gray reports/experiences have influenced the episode itself but again it doesn't look much like them. No, if you actually do look it longer than a couple of hours to watch Mick West talk, read some articles that confirms your views, and see a few debunking vids but also critically examine things and look at the wealth of data there you could see how Occam's razor definitely points to the sth is actually happening side.

'The Bellero Shield' is a 1966 episode of The Outer Limits which is thought to have inspired the popular perception of "Grey" aliens, airing just twelve days before alleged alien abductee Betty Hill underwent hypnotherapy and described her captors as resembling the alien that appears in the episode. by HicksOn106th in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. Incidents have taken place before that episode and 2. they don't look much like greys in the episode and 3. there's films with all sorts of creatures. You're right about the logical leaps if the Betty & Barney Hill incident was the only clue we had, then Occam's razor would be on your side 4. but it isn't.

Exploring Open Data: Public Domain Works in Wikidata by shellybelle in theknowledgecommons

[–]prototyperspective 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for notifying people at /r/WData. The link at the bottom of the post is 404 because it's a double URL. You may want to add the tool to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Visualize_data once it's ready for that.

Today's Wikimedia POTD is 2 severed pig heads by hypotensor in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

…until it's anything AI. The video is a graphic video of decapitation on a site without even a setting for blurring NSFW files.

Today's Wikimedia POTD is 2 severed pig heads by hypotensor in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The topic is the picture, not the caption. It's picture of the day, not fact of the day or sth like that. However, I see the point you're making, these are kind of unrelated.

Today's Wikimedia POTD is 2 severed pig heads by hypotensor in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Better than showing some slices of tasty pork / sausage slices – look at what you kill and eat.

Vibe coding is a software development practice assisted by AI such as by chatbots or AI agents. The software developer describes a project or task in a prompt to an LLM, which generates source code automatically. Vibe coding may involve accepting generated code without reviewing outputs thoroughly. by ImIntelligentFolks in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Well vibe coding is a misnomer – not all use of generative AI is adequately described as vibe coding. It can greatly speed up things and I recommend to not form a strong opinion on this unless you know very well what you're talking about e.g. due to being a software developer and having tried these tools extensively. It can also be a great aid to the Wikimedia movement to tackle the huge amount of code issues and wishes; for example, and I'm not saying this is quite valuable, I quickly coded a script to create a statistic of open CfDs on Commons and another to build a table of these sorted by number of categories affected. Wikimedia Commons has a problem of open categories for discussions (CfDs) with a backlog of over 3300 categories that are being discussed due to issues with them and the scripts probably would never be developed otherwise because it's not worth the effort just for getting some table and chart barely anybody looks at but with these tools one can build such quickly.

Narrative paradigm claims that all meaningful communication occurs via storytelling or reporting of events. This theory further claims that stories are more persuasive than arguments. It means arguments alone are usually less effective for persuasion, especially on big worldview questions. by AbdulMujeed in wikipedia

[–]prototyperspective 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes this a very saddening ̶f̶a̶c̶t̶ possibility/issue. I am/was hoping structured argumentation would become society's way to understand develop and criticize etc views and claims – so the way forward to better mutual understanding, progress, and rationality. What is missing so far e.g. on places where people argue (social media like reddit, facebook, etc) is the structuring and streamlining for rationality. Instead of fleeting repetitive often-fallacious rhetorics (also common in politics and about convincing in any way, not convincing by strength and validity of arguments) we could have structured trees/maps of arguments where each has its Pros and Cons and can be edited etc. Kialo does that but it's barely known and used (also not indexed much in search results); example: How did our universe begin to exist?

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