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Fwd: "New Wikimedian in Residence at Maastricht University" outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GL

"Of every five projects that have been carried out with Wikimedia at universities in the Netherlands, four have been due to the efforts of Maastricht University. Since 2014 various activities at the University have been organised."

outreach.wikimedia.orgGLAM/Newsletter/March 2025/Contents/Netherlands report - Outreach Wiki
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AJ Sadauskas

@cwicseolfor @hakfoo @futurebird @lnlyisol There was also the politics of it.

For a long time, Silicon Valley positioned itself as being the enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative disrupting established cartels and vested interests.

Instead of believing what the old media barons tell you about the War in Iraq and Saddam's WMDs, our platforms let anyone be a publisher!

Instead of the RIAA's boy bands and lip syncing pop idols, we allow talented independent artists to be heard!

Instead of IBM, and later Microsoft, having a monopoly, buy our products instead! Think different! Don't be evil! It just works!

And then once everyone was locked into the walled gardens, the enshittification began.

Now.

What we really should have collectively been insisting on was a genuinely enlightened, socially-conscious, pro-freedom, pro-consumer alternative.

Member-owned, community-run non-profits. Creating open source software, based on open standards and protocols.

Where you own, and are free to repair, and are free to tweak or upgrade, your hardware. Which comes pre-installed with open source software from member-owned non-profits.

The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation model works for encyclopaedias. So let's do that for search too.

And let's not leave the design of tech to just the computer science majors and MBAs. Let's get some social science and humanities folks in that design process too.

We can still do it.

But we need to start by recognising that tech, and who owns it, and who designs it, and who makes decisions about it, is a political issue.

We, the people, need to make those decisions. Not just the billionaire VCs and CEOs.

#OpenSource #FOSS #enshittification #Fediverse #OpenStandards #Linux #Wikimedia #deGoogle #Google #Meta #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft

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Image du 20 avril :

Un Baliste picasso arabe (Rhinecanthus assasi) dans la mer Rouge, en Égypte. Cette espèce de baliste peut atteindre 30 cm de long, ce qui en fait le plus petit de sa famille. Le picasso arabe vit principalement dans les récifs coralliens dans l'Océan Indien occidental, dans la mer Rouge et dans le golfe Persique.

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Artiste : Diego Delso
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Un Baliste picasso arabe (Rhinecanthus assasi) dans la mer Rouge, en Égypte. Cette espèce de baliste peut atteindre 30 cm de long, ce qui en fait le plus petit de sa famille. Le picasso arabe vit principalement dans les récifs coralliens dans l'Océan Indien occidental, dans la mer Rouge et dans le golfe Persique.
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Assasi triggerfish (Rhinecanthus assasi), Red Sea, Egypt. This species of triggerfish reaches up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, which makes them of the smallest in the family. It is tan above and white below with blue stripes between and below the eyes. R. assassi mostly lives in or near coral reefs. It occurs in the western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

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Assasi triggerfish (Rhinecanthus assasi), Red Sea, Egypt. This species of triggerfish reaches up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, which makes them of the smallest in the family. It is tan above and white below with blue stripes between and below the eyes. R. assassi mostly lives in or near coral reefs. It occurs in the western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
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Fresque au plafond de l'église catholique Saint-Pierre-et-Paul de Helmstadt-Bargen (Allemagne), construite en 1904 dans un style néogothique. La peinture centrale représente la Sainte Face et les Arma Christi. L'ange du bas tient une bannière disant « La salvation est en la Croix ».

License : CC BY-SA 4.0
Artiste : Roman Eisele
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Fresque au plafond de l'église catholique Saint-Pierre-et-Paul de Helmstadt-Bargen (Allemagne), construite en 1904 dans un style néogothique. La peinture centrale représente la Sainte Face et les Arma Christi. L'ange du bas tient une bannière disant « La salvation est en la Croix ».
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Helmstadt-Bargen, Germany: painted ceiling of the Roman Catholic Saint Peter and Paul Church, built in 1904 in Gothic Revival style. The central painting shows the Veil of Veronica and the Instruments of the passion; the angel at the bottom holds a banner saying “In the cross is salvation”.

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Helmstadt-Bargen, Germany: painted ceiling of the Roman Catholic Saint Peter and Paul Church, built in 1904 in Gothic Revival style. The central painting shows the Veil of Veronica and the Instruments of the passion; the angel at the bottom holds a banner saying “In the cross is salvation”.
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