iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 26/08/2026

As Wikimedian in Residence at The Gazette, I have just been able to answer a question a fellow Wikipedia editor asked about that publication - 22 years ago! Fortunately, they are still editing Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Th...

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Talk:The London Gazette - Wikipedia

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 03/07/2026

I won a Wikimedia UK Silver Jubilee Award (one of five, present by Jimmy Wales)

A glass star, inscribed "Thank you from Wikimedia UK for your outstanding contribution to open knowledge", sat in a blue silk-lined box.

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

And an outstanding one! The term has stuck in my mind since a talk by Jack Herrick of WikiHow: www.scientificamerican.com/blog/guest-b...

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Are You a Knowledge Philanthropist? If Not, Why Not?

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

So many parallels with cult recruitment!

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Likewise great to be in touch with you again, Ken! Hope you're well and thanks for the link.

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

@funsizesuze.bsky.social I enjoyed your talk on data at QEDcon but noted that you're not on @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social So I created Q136661809 for you: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136661... Wikidata is harvested by lots of things so this should improve your online visibility. Cheers,

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British chemist and science communicator

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

1/5 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is out. It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda. He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts. Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Breaking: President Trump expresses regret over not being able to release the Epstein files, promises to release the client list of the next pedophilia ring he is associated with.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 18/06/2025

Six years and 4 months after I requested it, we now have GeoJSON download from WDQS queries! [works best on desktop; mouse over right-hand edge to get menu with download link]

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Annie Reynolds @anniereynolds.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This month at #WomenInRed we are working on bios for women in #LGBTQ+ and those with a name beginning with K or L. We'd love you to join us in addressing the gender bias on English Wikipedia, 20.125% of bios are women. @wmau.bsky.social @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Page of text describing the events happening during June and calling for help to choose the most interesting 100 women on English Wikipedia. Also reminding editors to check a name against EnWiki's notability before translating their bio from another language.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Surge of interest in @wikipedia.org articles on Cantor's Diagonal Argument, Georg Cantor, and Banach-Tarski paradox following the publication of @veritasium.bsky.social video.

Graph of substantial jump in daily views of the three mentioned Wikipedia articles; Georg Cantor getting 3,500 views in one day from a base of below 500 a day.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

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The Khalili Foundation @khalili.foundation · 23/03/2025

📢 Did You Know ... that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan? 🤝 Read its history on Wikipedia: tinyurl.com/4xbnz2aa #DidYouKnow #SamuraiShokai #JapaneseArt #MeijiEra #KhaliliCollections #Wikipedia #KFMission

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

ICYMI: Trump has dropped investigations and enforcement actions against 89 lawbreaking corporations, including: -42 cases at the CFPB -15 cases at the DOJ -6 cases at the EEOC -7 crypto cases at the SEC It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Musk and Trump despise Zelensky because they know they'll never earn the level of respect he has—and deep down, they realize he is a hundred times the leader they’ll ever be

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

now that Trump is back in office, we have NASA HQ sending directives like this to people who surely have better things to do www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today. This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request. Note that the list below is the list that exists this morning, but it may grow as the day goes on.

DEIA
Diversity (in context of DEIA)
Equity (“ “)
Inclusion (“ “)
Accessibility (“ “)
MSI
Minority Serving Institution
Indigenous People
EEJ
EJ
Environmental Justice
Underrepresented groups/people
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)”

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

1/8 Elon Musk is working to ensure far-right parties win elections in Europe. Is the EU going to wait until his interference results in victories for far-right parties—contests they previously had no chance of winning—before taking action to counter his influence? Do something!

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW reporting from @juddlegum.bsky.social on Elon Musk's takeover of our federal government. Musk’s OPM associates have gained "unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees." www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

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Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees

The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wikipedia's Did You Know section today features the article on 'An African Song or Chant from Barbados', which was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. buff.ly/40wJWKs #Africa #music #UNESCO #MemoryoftheWorld

A photograph of the manuscript showing the musical score and written lyrics and notes, by Granville Sharpe circa 1772–1779

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The latest result of my cultural diversity work funded by @khalilifoundation.bsky.social : African/ Caribbean culture on the front page of Wikipedia

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Jason Evans has been championing the wiki projects at @librarywales.bsky.social for ten years now! In this blog he reflects on Wikimedia UK's collaboration with the library, and how it's built a sustainable future for Welsh culture online through open access. buff.ly/40EkKBY #welsh #GLAM

Infographic created by Jason Evans, showing 10 years of milestones at the National Library of Wales

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A #Wikidata query I created last week: Pairs of things, of different types, that smell of the same thing: w.wiki/CrWS

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 21/01/2025

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia lies.

Mainstream media lies.

They will contort the truth to make you believe in a bogeyman. In falling for it, you’re giving up your God given ability to think for yourself.

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Wikipedia has been ideologically captured for years

It's important that this is finally coming to light

The most extreme bias is probably against Israel

Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth

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Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!

Elon Musk

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Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!

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Capt.Kira @captkira.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We are absolutely living in the worst timeline. www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c...

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Trish Byrne @trishyb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The difference is, though, Hitler’s cars are still really popular.

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I don't often make memes. Maybe that's a good thing. Anyway, here's one.

Jesus "telling the truth" meme. Jesus says "1, i, 0 is a Pythagorean triple." The crowd reply "Shut up". The caption says "They hated Jesus because He told them the truth."

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Wikipedia has a new article, 'Effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom', collaboratively created by over 20 researchers from UK universities and health institutes. Facilitated by @adamharangozo.bsky.social and @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social buff.ly/3C7KSN4 #climatechange

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 09/01/2025

One year ago, I asked The Royal Collection if they would promptly update their website, removing any claims to copyright on images of out-of-copyright drawings and paintings, in the light of the THJ v Sheridan [2023] ruling. [1/n]

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The MSM keeps talking about climate change - if they talk about it at all - like it's something that's coming, slowly. But look west. This is climate change. Look east. This is climate change. It's everywhere, and it's now.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 07/01/2025

Ten years ago today @stephenfry.bsky.social kindly agreed to my request to record his voice for his Wikipedia article. Then Tweeted about it. It made the news later that month. It was over three weeks before there was a day without a new press story about it. #WikiVIP 1/n

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Nick Sheppard @nickshepp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Those of us that work in HE, and especially University libraries, have a duty to learn how to contribute to @wikipedia.bsky.social and support our communities to do so! Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

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Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation | Insights

Insights: the UKSG journal (2048-7754) aims to support UKSG's mission to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication, specifically to:Provide a for...

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Do you suppose Musk has gone on the warpath against Wikipedia because he realized that, unlike the U.S. government, Wikipedia can't be bought?

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Martin Poulter @mlpoulter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

As someone who has long advocated for Wikimedians In Residence in universities, this is great news. Lucy is going to be brilliant.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hello knowledge enthusiasts! 👋 We've just launched this account for Wikimedia UK - the national chapter of the global wiki movement. We'd be delighted to connect with any Wikimedians and open knowledge advocates on here! #introduction #opendata #wikipedia

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 10/12/2024

BREAKING: 500+ musicians are now calling on major music labels to drop their suit against @archive.org & make real change. The music industry isn't struggling. Only musicians are. Don't destroy the Archive in their name. Musicians and fans alike can still sign the letter at www.savethearchive.com

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Save Music, Save the Archive!

Save Music, Save the Archive! Over 500 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to re...

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ironically I really hate the way the word ‘mouthfeel’ feels in my brain

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 06/12/2024

A fascinating read, which alerted me to the original article, for the first time. The sheer audaciousness - maybe even mendacity - of organisations fraudulently claiming copyright in reproductions of public domain works beggars belief. Chapeau, @culturedoug.bsky.social !

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 05/12/2024

We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Pete Hegseth, nominee for Sec Def: - zero experience - his own mother will not endorse him - not a single reputable member of the military has come forward to support his nomination - has a history of sexual assault, financial mismanagement and being drunk on the job You're all caught up.

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