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About: This user formerly works for the UN. This user was appointed Person of the Year by Time in 2006. This user is a proud recipient of the 2015 Erasmus Prize This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 1 month and 7 days. 8,800+ This user has made over 8,800 contributions to Wikimedia projects. This user wishes editing Wikipedia were a job; that way they could procrastinate some other way! This user is not an administrator. This user has access to the Wikipedia Library. This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user respects copyright, but sometimes it can be a major pain. incl This user is an inclusionist. This user studies or studied at University of Indonesia. ꦥꦔꦁꦒꦺꦴꦲꦶꦏꦶꦏꦺꦠꦸꦫꦸꦤꦤ꧀ꦭꦁꦱꦸꦁꦱꦏꦥꦔꦺꦫꦤ꧀ꦢꦶꦥꦤꦼꦒꦫ。 This user is a direct descendant of Prince Diponegoro. Babel/Languages: Wikipedia:Babel en-4 This user can contribute with a near-native level of English. id-4 Pengguna ini mampu bersumbangsih dengan bahasa Indonesia mendekati penutur ibu. de-3 Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse. ar-2 هذا المستخدم يستطيع المساهمة بالعربية بمستوى متوسط. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. cmn-1 該用戶能以基本的官話進行交流。 该用戶能以基本的官话进行交流。 Search user languages This user likes to translate and proofread articles from Indonesian to English. This user likes to translate articles from German to English. Latn-5 A This user has full understanding of the Latin script. Arab-5 ع‎ This user has full understanding of the Arabic script. Cyrl-4 Д This user has a near-complete understanding of the Cyrillic script. Hani-1 文 This user has a basic understanding of the Chinese characters. PY This user has an understanding of Hanyu Pinyin. WikiProjects/Edit Focus: This user participates in WikiProject Southeast Asia. This user participates in WikiProject Timor-Leste. This user is a participant in WikiProject Indonesia. This user supports ASEAN Community This user wants to compile and preserve the sum of all human knowledge. This user is always fascinated as they search their family history and build a family tree to see what black sheep will turn up next. This user loves history.

Kaliper1, also known as K1, is a Wikipedian editor who has been editing articles since 25 June 2020. Kaliper1 began contributing to various Wikimedia sites by initially focusing on making minor improvements such as correcting grammatical errors, adding citations, fixing formatting, adding category and image tags, captions, and links. This hobby served as a pastime after half-retiring from other endeavors. However, due to the upheaval of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, kaliper1 found themselves with an abundance of free time, leading to feelings of boredom and a desire to make a positive impact on the world. As a result, they turned their attention towards contributing to Wikipedia and other related sites, with the aim of making meaningful contributions to the broader online community.

Contributions

To many to list them down, You can see my Wikipedia contributions here and Commons uploads, in which some are still in display, are here.

Persons of interests in China

One of the first image/texts edits I've done in Wikipedia was concerning persons of interests in China. Specifically 1920-1940s Manchukuo and Northeast China. I've initially chosen this due to the fact that I was returning back from Beijing. Visiting Museums, Universities (Jilin and Northeast), Old Buildings, and Religious sites in northeast china, that's plastered with history, intrigues me. And during my time there, I've had uploaded photos on Baidu baike (Chinese: 百度百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; lit. 'Baidu Encyclopedia'), A chinese version of Wikipedia per-say. Mainly about unknown and obscure old photos catalogued in museums from the 1920-40's. As of now i've only uploaded Pictures of Feng Yong (Chinese: 馮庸) and Ying Qianli (Chinese: 英千里) from my Baidu baike postings and scouring. So far also i'm planning to add all of my picture postings in Baidu baike site to wikipedia for the world to see. On 2024, I've revisited China, specifically in the Dunhuang area where I traversed the via a local bus. This visit was specifically towards interest within the Silk road, eventually reaching Xi'an. Most of my photos was corrupted due to a damaged SD drive, but thankfully some was managed to get extracted. I'll upload some here at commons.

Everything Timor-Leste

I have had the opportunity to contribute to the Wikipedia pages related to Timor-Leste, a small country situated between Indonesia and Australia. Specifically, my focus has been on editing and improving the political and geographical sections of these pages. One significant challenge I encountered was the scarcity of information on the English version of the Timor-Leste Wiki in comparison to the more extensive and detailed German Wiki pages. To address this disparity, I decided to translate relevant pages from German to English, which allowed me to make meaningful contributions to the English language wiki community. I noticed that there were far more German language Wikis about Timor-Leste than English, and the Indonesian Wiki was highly underdeveloped. Given that I had some understanding of the German language, albeit a bit rusty and not in use for a long time, I decided to contribute my skills and knowledge to this cause. Thus far, I have been able to make a meaningful contribution by translating and expanding several Wiki pages related to Timor-Leste by also joining WikiProject East Timor.

One out of many examples of the changes I made to these Wiki pages can be seen in the pages for KOTA, PUN, and PST, where I added detailed information on the geography and politics of these regions. I find Timor-Leste to be a fascinating country with a rich cultural history and also personal history! In which, motivated me to contribute to these Wiki pages. I wish to visit Timor-Leste one last time. However, that is a story for another time. In the meantime, I hope others can appreciate the work that I, and many others, have done to improve the quality and depth of information available on Timor-Leste.

ASEAN

ASEAN's Big Five — (L to R) Philippine Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos, Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik, Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, and Singaporean Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam.

My interest in ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) comes from a long and deep fascination with regional cooperation, diplomacy, and the cultural ties that bind Southeast Asia together. I began editing and improving ASEAN-related articles to clarify and expand historical contexts, particularly those involving the founding period in the late 1960s. Much of my work has focused on the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), the formation meetings in Bangkok, and the early diplomatic efforts involving Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. I was inspired to contribute after studying archival newspapers and documents from the region, including materials from national archives and various foreign ministry publications during my time in university.

My goal is to help make ASEAN articles more comprehensive and accessible, not only for Southeast Asian readers but also for the wider global community. I have a mission to make ASEAN related articles to be comparable to the standards of WikiProject European Union; as much as 1:1. As I, and many parts of the community, see the EU as our main role model; and we should follow their example. Indeed, it is a one-man band. But it is hoped that these efforts will encourage greater understanding of ASEAN’s role in regional stability, economic growth, and cultural exchange in Asia. If the EU can work, so to does ASEAN. And if a sitting Defence Secretary of the U.S. does not know what ASEAN is,^[1] then there is much more work to be done.

Pop Kreatif

If you're here from the Pop Kreatif article, I'd recommend listen to this Playlist first to get the idea of what is truly, Indonesia's City Pop. [Give it a try.]

Current drafts

Even as an established editor with the rights and requirements of autoconfirmed status to publish articles directly, I rarely make use of that route. Instead, I typically opt to create articles through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process. Both for the purposes of a better review and recheck, a second opinion is incorporated into the drafting stage. It is, in my view, a safer and more reliable method that helps refine an article to its fullest. The only exceptions are articles tied to ongoing events or matters of timeliness, where immediate publication may be warranted.

Here are Kaliper1's current drafts. You may see my work being done below.

• Draft:Sri Bintang Pamungkas - Research Phase (On Hold) - 11.5%
• Draft:Avia S-92 - Research Phase (On Hold) - 8%
• Draft:South East Asian League - Writing phase - 85%
• Draft:Federal Southeast Asia - Deep Research phase - 0% ^{Hardest Article yet}

Expansions. Articles not made by me, but have the obligation to look better than my articles.

• ASEAN Declaration by - Expansion - 64%

> Reason: Updated needed (c.2005)

• Indonesia and weapons of mass destruction - Research - 9%

> Reason: Suspect. per WP:LLM.

Joint projects in WP:Indonesia.

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Articles

Articles I have significantly contributed to or created Pop kreatif History of ASEAN Association of Southeast Asia Luo Fangbo Japanese occupation of West Sumatra Hirohara Shrine Indonesian Democratic Union Party Ching Nan Shrine Marawa Minangkabau Sulawesi Canal Articles I've started or developed with emerging importance Lafaek Diak Senja (genre) Yano Kenzo Family of Joko Widodo Bregada Jakarta–Peking Axis Daniel Alexander Maukar Achmadi Hadisoemarto Accession of Sri Lanka to ASEAN Central Sulawesi Youth Movement North Natuna Sea Tengku Mansur Yamato Hotel incident Timorese Labour Party

Barnstars

The Original Barnstar Important contributions and generally kind.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ — DinoSoupCanada (talk) 02:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC) The Special Barnstar Thank you for your creation of East Timor–Brunei relations. Keep up the great work!‎‎ ‎‎‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ — Pangalau (talk) 04:44, 19 December 2023 (UTC) The Original Barnstar Thanks for your endorsement of the candidacy of my page 2025 Indonesian protests into ITN! For now, the news about the protests is on Main Page. —   DDG9912   00:23, 28 March 2025 (UTC) The Writer's Barnstar Thank you for your work in creating articles. At this point, you really don't have to use AfC; you can just publish them. It kinda wastes reviewer's time. Anywho, thank you for your contributions! Keep it up, and I hope to see more! — veko. (user | talk | contribs) 21:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Newspaper

Single-page Edition WP:POST/1 9 September 2025 News and notes Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court In the media Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks Disinformation report A guide for Congress Recent research Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists Technology report A new way to read Wikisource Traffic report Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice Essay The one question   File:Riverside House, Bankside 03.jpg Tony Hisgett cc-by-2.0 400 Kaliper1 Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Andreas Kolbe, Smallbones, and HaeB The London building housing the headquarters of Ofcom, the regulator tasked with enforcing the OSA Wikimedia Foundation court challenge to UK Online Safety Act rules dismissed The court's Approved Judgment The Wikimedia Foundation's legal challenge to the UK's new Online Safety Act rules has been dismissed. The Foundation had asked for a judicial review of regulations that could mean Wikipedia has to verify the identities of its users. The Foundation argued that would be burdensome and "could expose users to data breaches, stalking, vexatious lawsuits or even imprisonment by authoritarian regimes". But the news isn't all bad. As Techdirt pointed out, there are two ways one can look at the result. They are reflected in different headlines: while the BBC titled its article "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules", The Guardian went with the rather more optimistic "Wikipedia can challenge Online Safety Act if strictest rules apply to it, says judge". This was also the view of the Wikimedia Foundation, which said that the ruling "does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for", but welcomed the court's comments emphasising what it said was "the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected". On its website the Wikimedia Foundation said: The judge recognized the "significant value" of Wikipedia, its safety for users, as well as the damages that wrongly-assigned OSA categorisations and duties could have on the human rights of Wikipedia's volunteer contributors. The Court stressed that this ruling "does not give Ofcom [the regulator tasked with enforcing the OSA] and the Secretary of State [Labour politician Peter Kyle] a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia's operations", and indicated they could face legal repercussions if they fail to protect Wikipedia and the rights of its users. In order to achieve that outcome, he suggested that Ofcom may need to find a particularly flexible interpretation of the rules in question, or that the rules themselves may need amendment in Parliament. If the ruling stands, the first categorization decisions from Ofcom are expected this northern summer. The Foundation will continue to seek solutions to protect Wikipedia and the rights of its users as the OSA continues to be implemented. The Foundation's post also notes that it was joined as claimant in the lawsuit by UK-based longtime English Wikipedia editor User:Zzuuzz (whose personal identity "remain[s] confidential and protected by the law and the Foundation"). As summarized in the court's judgment, [Zzuuzz gave] detailed and compelling reasons for wishing to remain anonymous as a Wikipedia user. They provide[d] extensive evidence of threats that are made to Wikipedia administrators, including to [Zzuuzz] personally, on websites that target Wikipedia administrators. ... None of the evidence of Mr Bradley-Schmieg or [Zzuuzz] was challenged. Phil Bradley-Schmieg, the Foundation's lead counsel, also provided various updates about the lawsuit on Meta-wiki, as well as further explanations why the OSA's rules "are written so broadly that Wikipedia could be lumped in as a 'Category 1 service'": We have said [in the lawsuit] that there is a risk that (for instance, but without limitation) the inherent ability to embed images (or other content; maybe even user-generated templates) into Wiki pages may be deemed "forwarding or sharing functionality". The Foundation's lawsuit, thought to be the first judicial review brought against the OSA regulations, had been described as difficult to win from the beginning (e.g. by a legal expert quoted by the BBC, see previous Signpost coverage). Many other outlets reported on the matter, among them Reuters, Ars Technica, Courthouse News Service and Forbes. Several mentioned other recent controversies around the Online Safety Act. For example Reuters noted that "Free-speech campaigners and content creators have complained its rules had been implemented too broadly, resulting in the censorship of legal content." A Politico article titled "The UK’s new tech law triggers upheaval reported that "Reddit, X, Discord and BlueSky have all [already] implemented age verification checks and other measures to abide by the safety act", while clarifying that the Wikipedia lawsuit "regards a different provision that would require it to identify many of its contributors." For background, see also the Foundation's Diff post or the more detailed version of the post on Medium; for the risk of imprisonment by authoritarian regimes around the world, see previous Signpost coverage and List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia. – AK, H New trustees for WMF and endowment Mayree Clark is the newest member of the WMF Board of Trustees. She is also on the the Board of the Wikimedia Endowment and since 2024 is Chair of its Finance Committee. Since 2018 she's been a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG. Her career in finance has included a position as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, founding her own firm Eachwin Capital, and service as a director of the Stanford University Endowment. She earned an MBA from Stanford in 1981 and has also served on the faculty. Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier were appointed trustees of the Wikimedia Endowment at the July board meeting. Bonebrake is the Chief Financial Officer at Quaise Energy, which is developing geothermal drilling technology. Previously he was a Managing Director at Lazard, specializing in energy sector finance. He has earned B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Duke University, a Master's in Engineering from Duke and an MBA from Columbia University. Kier founded KG Funds Management in 2008 after managing four special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). He earned a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from George Washington University. Voting for two community seats on the WMF board will be held from October 8 – 23. Six candidates give three-minute video statements here. – AK, S Brief notes No new administrators: There were no requests for adminship in August. Reader comments File:1997 Ford Probe (SV) liftback (19403966725).jpg Jeremy from Sydney (Flickr) cc-by-2.0 450 Kaliper1 US Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Smallbones, Bri and Andreas Kolbe US Congress probes Wikipedia James Comer, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight, and Nancy Mace, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Government Reform Information Technology, and Government Innovation sent this letter to Maryana Iskander, CEO of the WMF. The Hill reports in Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias that the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Wikipedia, looking at "alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia entries." Quoting the committee's letter to WMF CEO Maryana Iskander, they added that the effort is part of an investigation into "foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion." The committee wants documentation about Wikipedians who have violated Wikipedia policy, and how Wikipedia enforces the policies, citing a report from the Anti-Defamation League alleging anti-Israel bias and another report from the Atlantic Council alleging pro-Russian editing by what they call the Pravda network (see previous Signpost coverage of the pro-Russian editing network). Specifically, the committee asked for the following information in its letter dated August 27, 2025: To assist the Committee’s oversight of this matter, we request the following information, covering the period January 1, 2023 to present, as soon as possible but no later than September 10, 2025: Records, communications, or analysis pertaining to possible coordination by nation state actors in editing activities on Wikipedia. Records, communications, or analysis pertaining to possible coordination within academic institutions or other organized efforts to edit or influence content identified as possibly violating Wikipedia policies. Records of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) including but not limited to all editor conduct disputes and actions taken against them. Records showing identifying and unique characteristics of accounts (such as names, IP addresses, registration dates, user activity logs) for editors subject to actions by ArbCom. Documentation of Wikipedia’s editorial policies and protocols including those aimed at ensuring neutrality and addressing bias as well as policies regarding discipline for violations. Any analysis conducted or reviewed by the Wikimedia Foundation (or by a third-party acting on its behalf) of patterns of manipulation or bias related to antisemitism and conflicts with the State of Israel. In a statement quoted by The Hill, a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson said the Foundation had received the request and were reviewing it: "We welcome the opportunity to respond to the committee's questions and to discuss the importance of safeguarding the integrity of information on our platform" Common Dreams, a very liberal source, emphasizes that the committee could dox Wikipedia editors in their GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel. They highlight a previous attempt to dox Wikipedians by the Heritage Foundation. (See previous Signpost coverage here.) The conservative New York Post makes a telling mistake in its headline Trump admin launches probe into Wikipedia over alleged ‘bad actors’ manipulating opinions about the US. The Trump administration is currently the executive branch of the federal government, but the committee is part of Congress, the legislative branch. The Post does not mention the efforts of the former acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, who had sent a similar letter to the WMF in May. The controversial and inexperienced Martin could not be confirmed by the Senate for the post. Despite the rules and traditions of the Department of Justice he only embarrassed himself by later asserting that, if he couldn't find that the WMF had broken any laws then he would use his position to embarrass the WMF (see previous coverage). JNS interviewed Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, who said, "I am glad that Congress is investigating the use of foreign and U.S. government funds to pay for biased editing on Wikipedia." In March Sanger tweeted Elon Musk the accusation that Federal employees were being paid to edit Wikipedia, and later sent the same message directly to President Trump. The Signpost examined this accusation and asked Sanger to provide some evidence. But without input from Sanger, we were able to find only minor cases of Federal employees making edits on Wikipedia. Sanger provides his statement to JNS on his blog "for the use of Congress and the public." Other media reports include: Gizmodo: MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs, 28 August 2025 USA Today: Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias, 27 August 2025 – S, AK SF mayoral wiki-washing? The San Francisco Standard reports A mysterious Wikipedia editor is scrubbing Daniel Lurie’s page of controversy in a very good analysis of possible paid editing. Mayor Lurie, an heir through his step-father to part of the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune, is suspected of using his personal PR consultants to eliminate coverage of his mother's $1 million donation to his mayoral campaign, his Jewish religion, his Republican supporters, and in general "purge Lurie's Wikipedia page of criticism and controversy and highlight his accomplishments as mayor." Joseph Reagle, an academic who co-edited the book Wikipedia @ 20 was quoted saying "this seems purposeful and intentional" and "probably inappropriate." Former WMF board of trustee's member Dariusz Jemielniak was quoted saying the edits were "trying to find an angle that is more positive than it originally was". Even a Wikipedia spokesperson chimed in. Expect to see updates on this story. My brief review of the evidence shows that the editor in question is attributed 54.5% of the article's authorship, but have made only two edits. There are blocked editors and sockpuppets among the article's authors, as should be expected in most political articles, but only a small handful. – S The antithesis of Jimbo's thesis 404 Media reports on Jimbo's talk page to see how the community viewed Jimbo's AI related idea that Articles for creation could use some AI to better respond to draft articles on borderline notable topics, specifically to a draft of Howard Ellis Cox Jr. Over five years the draft was declined four times using exactly the same words, from the same template. The first reviewer was the late DGG, followed by Sulfurboy, Hatchens, and JesusisGreat7. A KCBS podcast (via Audacy) sums up the arguments in 4 minutes. – S The Verge verges on a complete history of Wikipedia 2025 The Verge published (archive) a 9,000 word article that covers everything that's happened politically and in the courts to Wikipedia this year. In an interesting graphic the headline starts as "Wokepedia is resilient because it is biased" then appears to be edited to "Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring". The author, Josh Dzieza, gives a lively telling of all this material, but appears to favor the edited headline. He starts with Elon Musk's (disputed) Nazi salute and after a short detour to the Erfurt latrine disaster runs through a February meeting in San Francisco where Wikipedians calmly discussed attacks on Wikipedia in the media. After another detour to a 1967 New Yorker article by Hannah Arendt about "an inherent conflict between politics and facts". Followed by a February report by Media Research Center "claiming that 'Wikipedia Effectively Blacklists ALL Right-Leaning Media.'" Followed by controversy over the Reliable sources/Perennial sources page. And then Larry Sanger, Asian News International, A.I. and so on. The best part is the end where Jimmy Wales appears in unusual attire, talks about a working group to strengthen the rule on neutral point of view, and how we now have an opportunity to improve Wikipedia. Like the last eight months, the article is very interesting but exhausting. – S All hail Grnrchst! Ars Technica reviews User:Grnrchst's article, "The article in the most languages", from the last issue of The Signpost. Ars Technica deputy editor Nate Anderson wrote the approximately 1200-word story that highlighted both Grnrchst's investigation, and the ideological leanings of the subject of the apparent self-promotion, which included comparing Timothy McVeigh to Jesus Christ, and a deep interest in a South American colony that "was designed to let German culture flourish away from the influence of European Jews". The Ars piece concludes with a bit of op-ed concerning those who engage in "polluting open or public-facing projects for their own ends". Kudos to Grnrchst! – B Two different takes on an essay; or, AI: the good, the bad, and the ugly Clint Eastwood from the wrong film (publicity photo, pd), but do check out the music Two websites offer different takes on the advice page Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing. TechSpot leaves out AI's good and summarizes some of the advice page's points in its short review of the very long page. It doesn't really say much else, so why not skip directly to reading the advice page? It's neither bad nor ugly, unlike AI writing. Meanwhile, Fast Company's take asks us "Want to disguise your AI writing? Start with Wikipedia’s new list." Perhaps not what the advice page was written to advise about, but hey, death of the author and all that; you're welcome to use it however you want. Just not on-wiki, please. In brief Which would be worse, AI writing articles or a paid editor who won't stop creating adverts?: Answer: a paid editor who uses AI to write on-Wiki adverts, and who also uses AI to write advertising for his own services (including SEO and reputation management). Otherwise he uses Upwork (only $10 per hour, 67% of 7 projects completed successfully (sic)), Kwork, and Legiit to attract clients. He doesn't need us to advertise his services, so we won't provide a link (except to a limited number of admins). RAGtime blues for some sites, good news for Wikipedia...: Retrieval-augmented generation may be directing AI search (i.e. ChatGPT) traffic to Wikipedia in favor of other online content, due to its higher trustworthiness [1] ...or maybe the blues for all websites? Columbia Business School reports "ChatGPT Is Stealing Readers From Wikipedia"; Tom's Guide published an analysis of the Columbia study. (See also our review of this paper in the March 22 Signpost issue: "So again, what has the impact of ChatGPT really been?", and some follow-up discussion on concerns about its statistical methodology.) 404 podcast: 404's own podcast about AI slop on wiki. Unexpected in Houston: Houstonia discovers that edit-a-thons sponsored by ImagiNoir/BLMHTX, the Menil Collection, and Rice University contribute to Houston's quality of life, in "The Unexpected Ways in Which Houstonians Have Helped Shape Wikipedia." Spin spun?: "Wikipedia set to pick Spin as first social media agency" (paywalled) ([2] archive) in Campaign and sister publication Adweek ("Wikipedia Hires Spin for Its Social Marketing Needs") assert that social media agency Spin has been selected to "create social-first video content for the online encyclopedia." Could this be what we need just in time for Wikipedia's 25th anniversary? Nope! Spin seems to have jumped the gun. The Campaign article has been retitled to change "Wikipedia" to "Wikipedia parent", and the Adweek article has apparently been withdrawn. "Street cred" for the work of physicists: APS News reports on the American Physical Society program "Wiki Scientist" that encourages professional physicists to become Wikipedians. Wikipedia rules (because of AI): HackerNoon published an article titled "Wikipedia Rules Everything Around Me" by Drew Chapin, asserting that because of its prominence in AI training corpuses, "Wikipedia is the only digital strategy [for promoting businesses] that matters in the next few years. Everything else is nice to have or simple noise." Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? Edit our next issue in the Newsroom or leave a tip on the suggestions page. Reader comments File:Statue of Freedom with flag flying over US House of Representatives (8576931279).jpg Architect of the Capitol pd 300 Kaliper1 A guide for the US Congress Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Smallbones Related articles Does Wikipedia pay? How paid editors squeeze you dry 31 January 2024 "Wikipedia and the assault on history" 4 December 2023 The "largest con in corporate history"? 20 February 2023 Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth 31 August 2022 The oligarchs' socks 27 March 2022 Fuzzy-headed government editing 30 January 2022 Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography 29 November 2021 Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages 26 September 2021 Enough time left to vote! IP ban 29 August 2021 Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise 25 April 2021 More articles A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video 28 February 2021 Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds 28 December 2020 How billionaires rewrite Wikipedia 29 November 2020 Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking 1 November 2020 Paid editing with political connections 27 September 2020 WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later 27 September 2020 Wikipedia for promotional purposes? 30 August 2020 Dog days gone bad 2 August 2020 Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy 2 August 2020 Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money 2 August 2020 Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news 28 June 2020 Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020 31 May 2020 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting 31 May 2020 English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages 30 April 2019 Women's history month 31 March 2019 Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars 1 December 2018 Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill 23 June 2017 Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia 2 September 2015 Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage 2 September 2015 Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj 12 August 2015 Community voices on paid editing 12 August 2015 On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it 15 July 2015 Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing 24 June 2015 A quick way of becoming an admin 17 June 2015 Meet a paid editor 4 March 2015 Is Wikipedia for sale? 4 February 2015 Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection 30 July 2014 With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use 18 June 2014 Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler 11 June 2014 PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia 11 June 2014 Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure? 26 February 2014 Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge 19 February 2014 Special report: Contesting contests 29 January 2014 WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing" 8 January 2014 Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting 20 November 2013 More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more 23 October 2013 Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin 16 October 2013 Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more 16 October 2013 Wiki-PR's extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed 9 October 2013 Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia 25 September 2013 PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market? 13 May 2013 Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate 12 November 2012 Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales 1 October 2012 Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike 23 July 2012 Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes 7 May 2012 Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth 30 April 2012 Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities 30 April 2012 Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren 16 April 2012 Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more! 26 April 2010 License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing 15 June 2009 Report of diploma mill offering pay for edits 12 March 2007 AstroTurf PR firm discovered astroturfing 5 February 2007 Account used to create paid corporate entries shut down 9 October 2006 Editing for hire leads to intervention 14 August 2006 Proposal to pay editors for contributions 24 April 2006 German Wikipedia introduces incentive scheme 18 July 2005 The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is now investigating Wikipedia. They want to know how Wikipedia responds to bad actors who try to insert disinformation into Wikipedia articles, in particular to anti-Semitic and anti-Israel edits and "pro-Kremlin and anti-Western" manipulation of articles by "foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion" according to the letter sent to Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) CEO Maryana Iskander. The letter seems to reflect several misunderstandings of Wikipedia, so I offer some basic information on how the Wikipedia community is organized, the limited role of the WMF, and how the English-language Wikipedia deals with disinformation. This basic information is something the committee should understand before investigating Wikipedia. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Signpost or its staff, the WMF, or any other Wikipedia editor. Community organization Since 2001 Wikipedia has been an international movement with encyclopedias in several languages. Jimmy Wales has expressed our goal as "to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language". The basic unit of content production and governance is the individual language version of the encyclopedia. The community of editors of each version, which includes anybody in the world who can write in that language and follow our rules, decides questions by consensus. They created those rules by themselves, often using the rules created for the English Wikipedia by its users as a model. The English language community has delegated some functions such as dispute resolution and article deletion to administrators, the Arbitration Committee, and for some specialized functions such as checkusers and bureaucrats. The community generally starts the dispute resolution process on article talk pages or on noticeboards. Admins enforce the community-written policies and guidelines, for example by blocking disruptive editors or limiting the editing of controversial pages to experienced editors. Along the way, they get feedback from the community. If it goes further, ArbCom is almost always the final step in this process. Anybody can give evidence in an ArbCom proceeding. During the entire dispute resolution process, the admins and arbitrators decide based only on editor behavior, not on article content. Individual editors ultimately decide on content based on their consensus. The WMF's role The WMF raises money for the encyclopedia, provides the computer platform, programming, and the terms of use. It employs legal, accounting and research staff as well and makes grants to editors and affiliate organizations. It rarely interferes with an encyclopedia's governance except for violations of the terms of use, or abuse that affects several encyclopedias, or threatens the safety of editors. The WMF’s Trust and Safety office rarely comments on its activities in order to give victims and others anonymity. Only when they take action (or are about to take action) such as blocking or banning editors will they make limited information available. They do consult the legal department with the final approval coming from the CEO stating that all their internal procedures have been followed. I hope that the WMF has a strategy and tools to deal with hidden interference in our content by large state actors. But I do understand that revealing those to the editors and the public would greatly limit their usefulness. One example of the WMF's hesitancy to get involved in the governance of an encyclopedia was The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia, which involved a neo-Nazi takeover by the administrators of the Croatian Wikipedia. It took over a decade for the WMF to become publicly involved in the matter and then only as administrators from other Wikipedia versions were coming to a solution. Key values Diversity, equity and inclusion are core values across the movement. How else would the encyclopedia be able to attract enough writers and editors to cover all the needed content in all the needed languages? Doxxing, or exposing an editor's name or workplace and other personal details is against the rules. It would expose editors to harassment by the bad actors, including some of those in governments around the world who would like to censor the encyclopedias. Maintaining a neutral point of view (NPOV) is also a key value but it has a special meaning and importance to most Wikipedians. It means that editors try to include all widely held points of view about a particular topic that can be documented in reliable sources, but not including extreme minority fringe viewpoints. Editors spend much of their time trying to ensure that our NPOV policy is upheld. This does not mean that if a POV in an article is questioned, then Wikipedia is biased. Every editor has a POV, but just because your POV is different from mine doesn't mean that either your POV or mine is correct. That's simply not what our NPOV policy is about. Almost all Wikipedians do recognize that there are non-neutral POVs being pushed on Wikipedia, for example by employees of various governments, politicians, and public relations firms and their commercial employers. How the community deals with disinformation All editors and the public at large can participate in Wikipedia’s discussions on disinformation. Removing disinformation, like most processes on Wikipedia, happens with individual editors acting alone or as a result of talk page discussions. Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard (WP:COIN) is also an important starting point. Especially controversial cases may be discussed at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN). Admins might block editors at this point if the community consensus is clear. Quite often though a sockpuppet investigation (WP:SPI) is needed. Sockpuppets are editors who create multiple accounts in order to deceive other editors. An SPI is often needed when disinformation insertion is suspected. The editor who reports suspected socking needs to show through behavioral evidence that at least two accounts are being run by the same person. Checkusers can then check, for example, whether two accounts are editing from the same computer. While the checkusers’ toolset is generally kept secret, they often are able to find dozens of sockpuppets working together. Who is trying to secretly influence Wikipedia content? Almost all governments have large communications departments that try to provide information to the public. For example, the census bureau provides population data and Wikipedia uses it intensively, posting much of it on articles about almost all U.S. states and territories, counties, cities, towns, townships, boroughs, and many census-designated places. Also, Congress conveniently provides short biographies about almost every congressperson since 1790. Together, just these two government databases provide information that almost any American would be interested in and can easily access on Wikipedia. Thank you! But that's not what Congress is investigating. They want to know how governments can secretly influence the content of Wikipedia. Political institutions, parties, and movements, as well as individual politicians can also influence content in much the same way. Businesses and individuals try to exercise similar influence in similar ways, often employing commercial firms or paid editors much as governments employ their own operatives. Many of these efforts have been unmasked and reported in Wikipedia articles, and in The Signpost, Wikipedia's independent newspaper. A short introduction to these records follows. You can find more Signpost articles on similar topics at our archives. Governments Statue of Freedom with the U.S. flag flying over the Capitol dome. Photo by the Architect of the Capitol (public domain) China The Wikipedia article on the Great Firewall gives a good overview of Chinese government interference and states that "In May 2015, China indefinitely blocked access to the Chinese-language Wikipedia. … As of May 2019, all language versions of Wikipedia have been blocked by the Chinese government." Relevant Signpost articles include: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong Observations from the mainland Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars Hardball in Hong Kong Russia The Russian government has temporarily blocked Wikipedia several times and has fined the WMF multiple times. It's not clear whether the WMF has paid or even been able to pay these fines due to international financial sanctions on Russia. The Wikipedia page List of Wikipedia pages banned in Russia lists well over 100 Wikipedia articles and over a dozen images from Wikimedia Commons that have been blocked in Russia. Perhaps the largest Russian effort to restrict Wikipedia has been to fork the real Russian Wikipedia, resulting in an ersatz censored version being published called Ruwiki. Putin's fork follies Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors But do the Russian government or its proxies edit the English language Wikipedia? There's no official list, but the Wikipedia article International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is quite likely to have been written mostly by Russian propaganda efforts. It is ridiculously long and one-sided. Written by 811 editors in 3,729 edits, it is much longer than the Foreign relations of the United States article, but could accurately be condensed into one paragraph saying that only Nicaragua and Venezuela currently recognize the Russian-sponsored break-away regions, and that Syria, Nauru, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu once did. (Disclosure – I've edited the article.) Most of the article is just trivial, misleading detail. But it has been featured on the main page five times: in "In the news" on August 27, 2008 and in "On this day..." on August 26, 2013, 2016, 2018, and 2021. A later-convicted unregistered Russian agent, Maria Butina, was widely accused of editing the article about herself. The disinformation age about Maria Butina An unregistered foreign agent of Russia Some Russian oligarchs appear to have paid for edits in the articles about themselves. Oligarchs' socks The United States Congress may not be too interested in investigating how the CIA edited Wikipedia, if only because it involves material discovered by WikiScanner. More from this source will be discussed in the next section. WikiScanner reveals juicy edits "minor public relations disasters" Dutch royal family Politicians The U.S. Congress Both the Senate and House of Representatives have a long history of staffers secretly editing Wikipedia. There are two separate encyclopedia articles on this activity. United States congressional staff edits to Wikipedia CongressEdits There is also an internal article, Wikipedia:Congressional staffer edits, to help editors identify further activity. The internal article lists 149 articles that were affected by House staff editing. It also lists 176 IP addresses attributed to the Senate which edited Wikipedia. More generally, the article List of political editing incidents on Wikipedia gives more than a dozen examples of improper editing of political articles. The Signpost has extensive coverage of this editing. U.S. congressional staffers' editing investigated Reactions by politicians continue Politicians move from editing Wikipedia to citing it which includes edits apparently made by Joe Biden’s staff. Other politicians Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign chairman, an Acting Attorney General, state officials, a Congressman, city officials, and even a presidential candidate all made, or appeared to make, some contributions. Political staffer's editing meets with mixed reception About Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Josh Shapiro, Representative Michael Blake (R-NY) and state politicians Amidst city council infighting, Durham, North Carolina, city officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and undeclared paid editing Business and commercial editing Many businesses secretly create or edit articles about themselves, sometimes using individual employees who just copy from the company's website making for a very bad encyclopedia article. OceanGate who operated the Titan submersible which imploded and killed its five occupants, used this method. They went beyond advertising (which is prohibited on Wikipedia). The information about safety went beyond being misleading, it was disinformation. Wikipedians did a good job removing the advertising and the copyright violations, but it lasted too long in the article. This type of disinformation is one of the smallest challenges we face. Imploded submersible outfit foiled A much more serious type of hidden business editing, is typified by the PR firm Bell Pottinger. In 2011 they were caught on tape by investigative reporters promising to use "dark arts" to edit Wikipedia to people they thought represented a repressive government. Bell Pottinger also had contracts with the U.S. Defense Department – not related to Wikipedia. In 2017 the company got caught working for the Gupta family in South Africa using racial hatred as a PR tool. Bell Pottinger quickly collapsed. One of their contractors on the South African job, an Israeli firm known as Veribo and later as Percepto, showed up in another Signpost investigation involving possible corruption in the Canadian government, as well as editing for Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs. A list on an internal Wikipedia page shows that a dozen editors connected to them edited at least sixty articles, including some related to governments and businesses, South Africa, Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, at least one Royal, and an investigative journalist. This type of paid editing is more difficult to catch than the simple method used by OceanGate. Bell Pottinger Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Bell Pottinger COI Investigations Paid editing with political connections The work of other commercial editing organizations is shown in these investigations. Wiki-PR's extensive network Orangemoody Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks? The "largest con in corporate history"? Adani Group How billionaires rewrite Wikipedia Greg Lindberg The North Face vandalizes Wikipedia A special group of purveyors of disinformation is convicted sex offenders. The two that The Signpost has reported on are Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Nygard. While their motives are very different than those of people described above, their methods were fairly similar to the simplest model. A very few people, perhaps only two or three in Epstein's case, seem to have done the editing. "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein" A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video Conclusion It does look like Wikipedia has a problem with disinformation. And there are likely hundreds, perhaps thousands, more articles every year that are affected by disinformation. So it’s not surprising that Congress wants to investigate the problem. But please remember that there are over 7 million articles on Wikipedia so that the articles with disinformation are still a very small fraction of the total. Editors here are very experienced at making articles NPOV. If Congress' investigation of Wikipedia results in a way to decrease disinformation, it will be a victory for everybody. We could definitely use some help countering Chinese and Russian disinformation. Much of the rest the Wikipedia community handles pretty well. But, many different types of people try to insert disinformation, using many different methods. We should try to understand and counter all of them. For example, congresspeople and other politicians can be encouraged by their peers and their constituents to follow our rules. They must not secretly edit articles about themselves. If they hire an editor to help them change an article, those paid editors must declare that they are paid and name their employers and clients. No exceptions! I doubt that Wikipedia editors are going to change our rule on maintaining a neutral point of view. The government can openly provide documentation for its point of view to the whole community, but editors don’t have to accept that POV as being the whole truth. We want to show all widely held well documented viewpoints. Reader comments File:Taxon item properties diagram.jpg Siobhan Leachman & Heidi Meudt cc-0 25 25 550 Kaliper1 Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Katarzyna Makowska (WMPL), 三猎, and Tilman Bayer A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter. "The Wikipedia Editions of Low German and Other European Minority Languages" Reviewed by Katarzyna Makowska (WMPL) Post-1945 Low German language area in Europe The author of this 2021 study[2] looks at Wikipedia projects in several European minority, regional and endangered (MRE) languages. His main focus is on Low German (Plattdeutsch, a minority language spoken in northern Germany), but he also considers other European languages: Occitan, Piedmontese, Sardinian, Kashubian and Ladin. The introduction provides an overview of the history of Low German, once lingua franca in Northern Europe, its erosion and loss of popularity until being added to the EU list of Endangered Languages. The author mentions the recent generational divide, the role of new media including the internet and, of course, Wikipedia. He reviews studies looking at the online presence of MRE languages, including a notable 2013 study dividing digital presence of languages into four groups: thriving, vital, heritage and still.[supp 1] The paper then compared the minority languages on Wikipedia: their rank by number of articles, number of administrators and active users. It was noted that the presence of a Wikipedia project is a positive achievement in itself, considering that the rules for creating a new language project are described as fairly complex, and that many of the world's languages are not represented on Wikipedia. The author also notes that at least as of 2021, dedicated, small groups of speakers/users are mostly responsible for maintaining the languages' presence on Wikipedia. The author moved on to search for fifty common terms in each language, doing a word count for each entry if applicable (a search for 400 Wikipedia entries in total). This study was carried out between November 2016 and January 2017 with data reexamined in March 2021. The author does not explain in much detail how he chose the 50 common words. This part is somewhat comparable to a recent study by Lewoniewski et al.,[3] although in that case the authors explained their choice of words to analyse more transparently, and were looking at quality of articles. Interestingly, the author notes: "The brevity of many of the articles and the paucity of information may cause more problems than benefits, such as perceptions that these languages are unrefined, unsophisticated, and second-rate. The voluntary work of the respective Wikipedia crews can, of course, not be faulted for this dilemma. Rather, these numbers underscore the fact that languages with fewer speakers do not have a good or even fair chance of succeeding on Wikipedia, which in turn negatively affects a meaningful online presence. These results, however, must be considered preliminary, and a study larger in scope will be needed to genuinely validate it." The paper also provides an intriguing case study for changes in Low German Wikipedia: "Something unexpected happened with the Low German Wikipedia edition in the course of this study. At the beginning of this study, in January 2018, Low German had 27,342 articles, 4 administrators, and fifty-two active users. In terms of total number of entries, it ranked at number one hundred. In March 2021, the Low German Wikipedia had 85,467 entries and had climbed to number seventy-five. It still had four administrators in March 2021 and seventy active users. This means that the number of articles in the Low German Wikipedia edition more than tripled in three years, while the volunteer staff only slightly increased. What are the reasons for this remarkable increase in articles? The answer is baffling, as many of the newly added articles may not have been authored by humans." As shown in table 6 of the study, it turned out that over half of the articles in the languages examined, with the exception of Ladin, are bot-generated. This is in contrast to large Wikipedias such as English or German, which use many bots, but less frequently for content creation. While bots can be useful for generating stub articles with basic information, these entries tend to be repetitive and have very few or no references. The author provides an interesting critique of the digital world achieving or failing to achieve more equality and presence for marginalised groups and minority languages. Beyond digital limitations, the paper reminds its readers that the barriers to the representation of MRE languages can go beyond the domain of linguistics, into the cultural sphere, as many of these languages are "embedded in a profound oral tradition, which often includes the lack of a common orthography. This means that not only Wikipedia but also the Internet in general is not really an adequate medium for communication in these languages." After writing this review, I was informed that Book Publisher International (the company which published the volume in which this study is a chapter) is considered a predatory publisher (thank you to the editor who pointed it out!). Considering that the author published in other reputable places on this subject,[4] I think there is still merit in this small yet interesting study. The author himself was careful to underline that the results must be understood as samples and snapshots rather than definite conclusions. Still, the findings raise important questions about the future of minority languages online. It would be interesting to see a follow up study on this, although understandably, as the author points out, that would require more resources and finances. It would be equally intriguing to see a comparison of how the languages have been doing since the study was conducted and published. "Wikidata for botanists" Reviewed by Katarzyna Makowska (WMPL) This paper[5] makes a case for using Wikidata in botany, highlighting its benefits and multiple application opportunities in this field. The authors are researchers and Wikidata editors, and the publication comes after a workshop and poster presentation during the International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Spain in 2024. The paper starts with a narrative about Oxalis psoraleoides (a species of flowering plant), accompanied by a knowledge graph, demonstrating how many elements mentioned in the botanical story (such as collections, species, places, explorers) are interlinked on Wikidata and can be visualised there: "Knowledge graph of entities linked to Oxalis psoraleoides subsp. insipida (Q131350563)" (Figure 1 from the paper) To quote from the paper: "(...) there is a huge amount of botany-related information that has been published over centuries that contains hidden connections between such entities. Much of this textual information is made available on the internet in a digital format. This information is usually unstructured, and hence is siloed, lacking in context, and not interoperable. In addition, information in different biodiversity databases as well as digital libraries is often not linked. (...) Publishing information in Wikidata ensures it is findable, able to be accessed, interoperable (the structure follows a documented standard), and obstacle-free with regard to reuse (licensing), thus progressing towards achieving compliance with FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets, [Q29032644], Wilkinson et al., 2016[supp 2])" This is followed by the basics of Wikidata, and a comprehensive list of various botany-related types of data in Wikidata, with a detailed explanation for each of them – from people, to taxa, publication, institutions, collections, expeditions, and more. The authors describe several tools relevant to botanists that visualise Wikidata and use Wikidata QIDs in websites or catalogues. The paper is concluded by practical examples of how the botanical community can use Wikidata to its advantage, and a Wikidata call to action closely tied to the Madrid Declaration, "collectively published by the congress participants at the end of the IBC and is aimed at botanists, institutions and citizens to 'strengthen the connection between plants and people, nurture mutual benefits, and enhance planetary health and resilience' (XX International Botanical Congress, 2024)." The article is accompanied by the original research poster and other interesting graphs. This story is also summarised in an accessible blog post: The power and potential of Wikidata for botany. In my view, it would be really interesting to see similar Wikidata overviews for other disciplines. "Visualization of a Wikidata data model for a taxon, including nearly 50 examples of Wikidata properties (not including identifiers) that can be used on taxon items in Wikidata (Figure 9 from the paper) Wikimedia Foundation publishes draft guidelines instructing researchers how to study NPOV on Wikipedia By Tilman Bayer The Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft document titled "Guidance for NPOV Research on Wikipedia". Besides general explainers about Neutral Point of View as a core Wikipedia policy, the document also appears to attempt to address some fallacies in prior studies of biases on Wikipedia, e.g. by asking researchers to "Distinguish between bias in sources on Wikipedia vs. bias in sources outside of Wikipedia", and suggesting other ways to "make rigorous assessments of Wikipedia's adherence to NPOV". The Foundation also solicited feedback on its guidelines draft from researchers and community members until August 31. The document appears to be related to the "Common global standards for NPOV policies" working group launched by the Foundation earlier this year (Signpost coverage: "WMF to explore 'common standards' for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear"), which itself recently published an "Analysis of Neutral Point of View Policies across Wikipedias". In "The Conversation", researcher Heather Ford raised concerns about the Foundation's "new rules": [...] instead of supporting open inquiry, the guidelines reveal just how unaware the Wikimedia Foundation is of its own influence. These new rules tell researchers – some based in universities, some at non-profit organisations or elsewhere – not just how to study Wikipedia's neutrality, but what they should study and how to interpret their results. That's a worrying move. As someone who has researched Wikipedia for more than 15 years – and served on the Wikimedia Foundation's own Advisory Board before that – I'm concerned these guidelines could discourage truly independent research into one of the world's most powerful repositories of knowledge. [...] the Wikimedia Foundation has lots of control over research on Wikipedia. It decides who it will work with, who gets funding, whose work to promote, and who gets access to internal data. That means it can quietly influence which research gets done – and which doesn't. Now the foundation is setting the terms for how neutrality should be studied. Ford is also part of a group of researchers who recently published a manifesto and commentary calling for "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" (see our previous coverage), which suggests to "Examine power relations" as one of several research focus areas. Briefly See the page of the monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase for videos and slides of past presentations. The Wikimedia Foundation's research department published its bi-annual "Research Report Nº 12", summarizing its activities during the first half of 2025. Other recent publications Other recent publications that could not be covered in time for this issue include the items listed below. Contributions, whether reviewing or summarizing newly published research, are always welcome. Compiled by 三猎 and Tilman Bayer "Wikipedia as a Global Social Movement" Translated from the abstract:[6] Previous studies have mainly positioned Wikipedia as a "meta-media", "reference book" or "social media", which seem unable to explain the reasons behind the continuous expansion of the Wikimedia project. Our research notes that Wikipedia originated from an open-source culture, and its development process can be traced back to the concept of the rights revolution. By evolving from Wikipedia to projects such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, as well as holding activities like edit-a-thons, Wikimedia has transformed from an internet encyclopedia to a global social movement. The Wikimedia movement can be regarded as an open-source knowledge movement without boundaries, of which the action process is fully transparent throughout the domain, the action subjects heterogeneous and integrated, and the forms of interaction competitive and cooperative. Viewing Wikipedia as a social movement and an open-source community helps to further understand the logic of global open-source knowledge dissemination. FYI: One of the co-authors, Gan Lihao (a professor of communication at East China Normal University), has just led his students to finish a book titled Wikipedia Politics and shared a report on the book at Wikimania 2025. Gan was mentioned in a 2019 BBC article. In this compiler's opinion, BBC had misinterpreted the Chinese scholar's words, which followed a special way of expression under China's context. "Collective Folk Writing on Chinese Martial Arts in English Contexts" From the English-language abstract of this Chinese-language paper:[7] With the increasing globalization of Chinese martial arts, diverse forms and levels of documentation have emerged worldwide. This study examines the collaborative folk writing of Chinese martial arts in English-language contexts by analyzing the development trajectory, contributor demographics, writing practices, and negotiations/competitions observed in the Wikipedia entry "Chinese Martial Arts". The research reveals that the entry's evolution is characterized by continuous growth and refinement, yet remains an ongoing, "unfinished" process. While the writing inherently exhibits distinct international and collective traits, the emergence of core contributor groups and Wikipedia's editorial protocols dominate the negotiation and competition among diverse perspectives, ultimately shaping the entry's narrative direction and textual representation. Notably, the study identifies a striking absence of Chinese voices in this collaborative writing process. It emphasizes the urgent need to integrate Chinese perspectives and knowledge into the global dissemination of martial arts discourse to bridge this representational gap. "ALPET: Active Few-shot Learning for Citation Worthiness Detection in Low-Resource Wikipedia Languages" From the abstract:[8] "Citation Worthiness Detection (CWD) consists in determining which sentences, within an article or collection, should be backed up with a citation to validate the information it provides. This study, introduces ALPET, a framework combining Active Learning (AL) and Pattern-Exploiting Training (PET), to enhance CWD for languages with limited data resources. Applied to Catalan, Basque, and Albanian Wikipedia datasets, ALPET outperforms the existing CCW baseline while reducing the amount of labeled data in some cases above 80%." "Augmenting Low-Resource Language Wikipedia through Hyperlink Type Recommendation" via Wikidata's "instance of" property From the abstract:[9] "Despite [Wikipedia's] widespread use, significant disparities persist among language publications, including variations in the number of articles, the spectrum of topics covered, and even the number of contributing community editors. In this paper, we aim to alleviate this gap in the coverage of low-resource languages. Although previous work has focused on multilingual interoperability efforts, the potential of hyperlinks has not been fully realized. Therefore, this study introduces a novel approach focused on hyperlinks, specifically emphasizing hyperlink types derived from Wikidata. We extract and analyze patterns related to these hyperlink types across different languages, using them as recommended solutions to connect the topics of various languages, particularly low-resource languages" By "hyperlink type", the authors refer to the Wikidata topic that a Wikipedia article is an "instance of", via Wikidata property P31. From the paper: [...] our research is carried out in a case study involving the English (en), Japanese (ja), and Vietnamese (vi) [Wikipedia] languages [...] [... W]e notice a significant preference for topics such as film, automobile models, music groups, singles, and video games in English editors. In Japanese articles, hyperlinks emphasize various aspects of Japan, including city, town, chōchō, municipality, railway station, and manga series. In contrast, the Vietnamese context focuses primarily on topics such as world war, sovereign state, chemical compound, and organization. "Leveraging LLM For Synchronizing Information Across Multilingual Tables" to help update Wikipedias in low-resource languages From the abstract:[10] "[Wikipedia] content in low-resource languages [is] frequently outdated or incomplete. Recent research has sought to improve cross-language synchronization of Wikipedia tables using rule-based methods. These approaches can be effective, but they struggle with complexity and generalization.This paper explores large language models (LLMs) for multilingual information synchronization, using zero-shot prompting as a scalable solution. We introduce the Information Updation dataset, simulating the real-world process of updating outdated Wikipedia tables, and evaluate LLM performance. 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Wilkinson MD, et al. (15 March 2016). "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship". Scientific Data. 3 (1) 160018. Bibcode:2016NatSD...360018W. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18. PMC 4792175. PMID 26978244. Reader comments File:Reading Upside Down (2542840362).jpg 50 100 400 Kaliper1 A new way to read Wikisource Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Bluerasberry New android app for Wikisource Wikisource Reader app The Wikisource reader app is now available for reading Wikisource books through mobile devices. Android users may get the app through the Google Play app store. For a book to be accessible through the app, it must comply with the data model at Wikidata:WikiProject Books, and have a Wikidata item which uses the Wikidata property Wikisource index page URL (P1957) to link a Wikisource book which the editorial community has certified as passing the proofreading and validation process. Currently the app supports 22 languages, Assamese, Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Marathi, Malay, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Wikisource editing has been especially popular in Bangla language and throughout India. The lead developer of the app is Sai Phanindra, user:Saiphani02. Sai edits Wikimedia projects in English and Telugu, and their interests include sharing photos of village life and public transportation in India and developing scripts and bots for Wikimedia editors. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is presenting the app, but the Wikimedia community and other open-source volunteers are now maintaining and managing it. As The Signpost previously reported, in April 2025 the government of India removed governmental permission for that organization to receive funding from foreign organizations such as the Wikimedia Foundation. While Wikimedia programs everywhere routinely have high participation from volunteer community members, it was helpful to have CIS develop the app. From this point, anyone interested in contributing to the app's development may do so through the GitHub repo. Documentation for the app is available at the meta page and the website for the app is cis-india.github.io/wikisource-reader-app/. As with all things Wikimedia, there are a few technical developers for the platforms, but an endless invitation for everyone else to edit the content which appears in those platforms. Anyone who would like to present books with open copyright in any language version of Wikisource is invited to join Wikisource. Further information is in the announcement at the Wikisource-l mailing list message. In brief New user scripts to customise your Wikipedia experience For further news and updates associated with user scripts, see the Scripts++ Newsletter Latest tech news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community: 2025 #34, #35, #36, and #37. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available on Meta. Installation code Further information: Wikipedia:User scripts § How do you install user scripts? Reader comments File:Bot pic IA.png ChatGPT cc-by-sa-4.0 300 Kaliper1 Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Reddit By Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, CAWylie, Milowent, Optim594 This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, CAWylie, (August 3 to 30), Milowent (August 17 to 23) and Optim594 (August 24 to 30). 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Intriguing trailers built up hype, and the end result had both critics and audiences embracing how Weapons alternates between a creepy atmosphere and shocking moments, to the point it took the top of this list and will also do so at the box office, in spite of competition that includes #5 (where the teacher, Julia Garner, also appears), #8, and the belated sequel Freakier Friday. 2 SummerSlam (2025) 1,398,404 The second night of this WWE event saw more division title matches than the first one, leading up to a street fight (mostly within MetLife Stadium) for the WWE Championship between Cody Rhodes and the retiring John Cena. Rhodes won the match and the belt, which Cena handed to him, then left Cena in the ring to thank the audience. 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Hence as this War of the Worlds got added to Amazon Prime Video's catalogue, critics lambasted the movie (with product placement for Amazon being a particularly mocked element!) and whatever audiences decided to check it out didn't approve of it either. Or you can blow with us! (August 10 to 16) Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about 1 Weapons (2025 film) 2,046,636 This year, Julia Garner already saw her husband fall into lycanthropy in Wolf Man, and she's being scared again playing a formerly alcoholic teacher who one day has all but one child in her class vanish into the night, forcing her to investigate. Weapons was considered one of the best horror movies of the year and opened with $43 million domestically – already covering its budget – the sixth straight Warner Bros. movie opening over $40 million (after A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, F1 and #8), a streak they might extend next month with The Conjuring: Last Rites. A prequel to Weapons, possibly focused on the movie's villain, is in the works. 2 Coolie (2025 film) 1,983,725 On the heels of Saiyaara at the Indian box office, this Tamil action thriller, written by Lokesh Kanagaraj, has received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences, respectively; mainly equally divided between its two halves: praise for the first half, and criticism for the second. 3 War 2 (film) 1,436,072 War was one of Bollywood's biggest hits in 2019, 2023's Pathaan would estabilish it as part of the YRF Spy Universe, so now a proper sequel has hit Indian theaters, again with Hrithik Roshan wreaking havoc. 4 Deaths in 2025 1,048,572 Release your mind Fast forward to the secrets of your code Your life's on overload Delete or save... 5 ChatGPT 1,021,576 6 Alien: Earth 947,563 The long-standing horror sci-fi franchise gets its first television foray, where two years before the original Alien a spaceship carrying that horrifying thing also known as the Xenomorph crashes on an island. 7 Wednesday (TV series) 794,982 The first half of the second season, following the morbidly macabre at her school, released on August 6, guaranteeing its return (and possible permanence) on this list through its second-half release in three weeks. 8 Superman (2025 film) 782,958 The two biggest superhero movies of the year, even if with box office earnings not as massive as the genre's heyday. 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Moh. Ilyas family line

You might have seen the infobox. Yes, you read it right. I am a direct descendant of Prince Diponegoro. My branch traces through the Sokaraja line of the Naqshbandiyah Khalidiyah Mujaddadiyah: from KH Ali Dipowongso in Makkah to KH Moh Ilyas in Sokaraja, then through the successive caretakers of that pesantren tradition. The line is named as the Moh. Ilyas great family line. The chain begins with Kanjeng Sultan Hamengkubuwono III of the Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, followed by his son and heir in struggle, Bendara Pangeran Harya (BPA) Prince Diponegoro, the National Hero.

Kyai Haji Raden Mas Muhammad Ilyas Ziarah kubur site in Sokaraja, Banyumas Central Java, Indonesia

Prince Diponegoro first married at the age of 27. He wed Ayu Retno Madubrongto, a religious teacher and the second daughter of Kiai Gede Dadapan. From this union, he was blessed with a son, Putra Diponegoro II.^[1] From him the line continues on from Kanjeng Pangeran Adipati (KPA) Diponegoro II of Diponingrat, then to Kyai Haji Ali Dipowongso, who was active and studied deeply in Mekkah,^[2][3] and then to Kyai Haji Raden Mas Moh. Ilyas bin Ali Dipowongso, the founder of the Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah Mujaddadiyah in Sokaraja.^[4][5] After him, the mantle passed to Kyai Haji Raden Affandi bin Ilyas, the second mursyid, who passed away on 05 January 1916, followed by Kyai Haji Raden Rifai bin Affandi, the third mursyid, who passed away on 4 August 1968 (10 Jumadil Awal 1388 H), and then to Kyai Haji Raden Abdulsalam bin Rifai, the fourth mursyid, who passed away on 12 May 2014 (12 Rajab 1388 H).^[6] The leadership then continued with Kyai Haji Raden Ir. Torik Arie Ghuzdiwan,^[7] who was appointed as the sixth mursyid in May 2014. Kyai Haji Raden Abdulsalam bin Rifai had a younger sister, who is my grandmother. She married a wonderful gentleman who is a veteran of the Indonesian National Revolution. Though my ancestor historically comes part of the Naqshbandiyah sufi order which follows the Tareqat of Abu Bakr.^[8] I come from a Nahdlatul Ulama family under the Ash'ari School, though I practice Islam fairly secularly and liberally as schooled following Azharite thought under the adoption of the pluralistic and moderatic Islam Nusantara form. This does not not shape my view, I just like that piece of history. I follow WP:NPOV strictly.

Family tree of Diponegoro II, Moh. Ilyas great family line

Ancestors of Kaliper1

2. Father 320. B.P.A. Pangeran Diponegoro (1785–1855, National Hero) 160. K.P.A. Diponegoro II (Diponingrat) 80. K.H. Ali Dipowongso (studied/served in Makkah) 40. K.H.R. Moh. Ilyas bin Ali Dipowongso — founder of Thariqah Naqsyabandiyah Mujaddadiyah Sokaraja 20. K.H.R. Affandi bin Ilyas (Mursyid II) 10. K.H.R. Rifai bin Affandi (Mursyid IV, †1388 H) 5. Grandmother — daughter of K.H.R. Rifai bin Affandi (Mursyid IV), sister of K.H.R. Abdulsalam bin Rifai (Mursyid V) 1. Me

So when I say I am from the Diponegoro family, I mean I carry a small piece of that history into the present. I try to honor it in practical ways. Study with care. Work with integrity. If I succeed, it will not be because of who my ancestors were, but because I tried to live up to what they taught.

References

1. "Perempuan-perempuan di Hidup Pangeran Diponegoro". Kumparan.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
2. Fathuddin, Agus. "KHM Ilyas, Ulama Trah Pangeran Diponegoro - Suara Merdeka - Halaman 2". KHM Ilyas, Ulama Trah Pangeran Diponegoro - Suara Merdeka - Halaman 2 (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2025-08-26.
3. "Mengenal Syekh Abdul Malik Purwokerto; Mursyid yang Dicintai Para Habaib". JATMAN Online. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
4. Pratama, Lafiana Ferika (10 December 2022). "Kiai Haji Raden Mas Muhammad Ilyas, Sang Penyebar Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah". kumparan (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2025-08-26.
5. Azmi Umar Faiq, NIM : 16120090 (2023-03-31). PENGEMBANGAN TAREKAT NAQSYABANDIYAH KHALIDIYAH DI SOKARAJA, BANYUMAS, JAWA TENGAH PERIODE KIAI ABDUSALAM 1968-2014 M. (skripsi thesis) (in Indonesian). UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA.
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