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17 hours ago

WikiFlix shows us what Netflix would have been like 100 years ago | TechCrunch

A project of Wikipedia's volunteer community, WikiFlix hosts over four thousand movies from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain - that means they are free to share and distribute, usually because the copyright lapsed, or there was never any copyright at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are your grandma's age, but isn't it kind of fun to imagine what Netflix would've been like back in the day?
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fromThe Verge
7 months ago

Wikipedia fights the UK's 'flawed' and 'burdensome' online safety rules

"As a Category 1 service, Wikipedia could face the most burdensome compliance obligations, which were designed to tackle some of the UK's riskiest websites."
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fromThe Verge
8 months ago

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers

Wikimedia is releasing a dataset for AI training to curb Wikipedia scraping.
Partnership with Kaggle aims to provide structured data for AI model training.
The dataset includes well-structured information while reducing server load from AI bots.
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