Topic: wikipedia editors
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Archive.today's CAPTCHA Allegedly DDoS Attacks; Wikipedia May Ban It
Wikipedia editors are debating whether to blacklist Archive.today due to allegations its CAPTCHA system was exploited in a DDoS attack, which could affect over 695,000 links across the site. The proposals range from a full ban and link removal to maintaining the status quo, with the service havin...
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Wikipedia at 25: A Look Inside Its Volunteer Community
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary as a massive global resource, now hosting over 65 million articles and receiving nearly 15 billion monthly views, powered by a vast volunteer community. To mark the milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation highlights diverse volunteer editors through a docuser...
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Wikipedia Volunteers Catalogued AI Fakes. Now a Plugin Blocks Them.
A new open-source tool called "Humanizer" helps AI-generated code appear more natural by instructing models to avoid 24 specific language patterns identified by Wikipedia volunteers as signs of automated writing. The tool was made possible by a detailed list of AI writing indicators compiled by W...
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