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Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Engadget

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Any media uploaded to Wikipedia has to be made freely available for anyone to use. But Jeremy said, 'Wait, youre from Wikipedia? A group of volunteer photographers has set out to fix that, as 404 Media reports.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Microsoft Office Clip Art Collection – This collection includes a combination of photos and illustrations and if you ever used the clip art option in PowerPoint, these will look familiar.

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Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT

The Verge

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is selling a non-fungible token (or NFT) based on his first edit of the free encyclopedia. Auction house Christie’s will hold a sale of the token from December 3rd to 15th, auctioning it alongside the Strawberry iMac Wales was using around Wikipedia’s launch. Jimmy Wales / Christie’s.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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Foundation models for reasoning on charts

Google Research AI blog

With these methods we surpass the previous state of the art in ChartQA by more than 20% and match the best summarization systems that have 1000 times more parameters. A chart created from a table in the Airbus A380 Wikipedia page using random plotting options. Both papers will be presented at ACL2023.

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Scaling Up: How Increasing Inputs Has Made Artificial Intelligence More Capable

Singularity Hub

2 Just a few years ago, state-of-the-art AI systems struggled with basic tasks like counting. All recent notable AI modelsespecially large, state-of-the-art onesrely on vast amounts of training data. To put this in perspective, as of September 2024, the English Wikipedia contained around 4.6 billion words. trillion words.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)