Lessons from Wikipedia: Keeping information reliable in the digital age
Read a new series to explore how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.
On Wikipedia, disagreement is never a sign of failure. It’s evidence that people care deeply about getting the facts right.
Centro-i para la Sociedad del Futuro participó en El Colegio Nacional —una de las instituciones intelectuales más importantes de México— para reflexionar sobre los desafíos urgentes que plantea este nuevo ecosistema tecnológico.
How much disinformation do German politicians and parties actually spread? On which platforms and to what ends? Two new studies provide systematic answers.
The post Who spreads disinformation, where, for what purpose, and to what extent? appeared first on HIIG.
With generative AI’s ability to create text and videos, the online world has fundamentally changed.
However, many people do not recognize that there is something distinctly familiar behind all that AI-generated content: knowledge curated, debated, and documented by humans.
That’s why Wikipedia’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important.
Let us explain.
Human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable
Françoise Daucé, Benjamin Loveluck et Francesca Musiani (Eds), The MIT Press, 2025.
L’article Digital Authoritarianism in the Making. Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.
Tobias Wolf successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Iterative Decomposition Methods for Ill-Posed Problems” on September 15, 2025. He is the seventh doctoral candidate to graduate from doc.funds’ “Modeling-Analysis-Optimization of discrete, continuous and stochastic systems” doctoral program.
Join us for our next club meeting as we explore Ray Bradbury’s haunting short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Published in the 1950s, this piece imagines an automated house continuing its daily routine even after the disappearance of its human inhabitants. It is a chilling reflection on technology, war, and the fragility of humanity’s future. Whether you are reading it for the first time or revisiting it, this short story offers plenty to think about and discuss.
Over the past two decades, the bedroom has been culturally reconfigured and revitalized. As neoliberal-policy induced housing precarity has become ubiquitous, we now spend much more time living with roommates, or maybe even moving back into our parents’ place. We feel as though our agency and control are in constant flux, slowly slipping away from us while the complexities of the global financial flows and politics which govern our lives consistently seem to undermine our interests. What, then, is left over? Where can we still exercise our agency? What place still belongs to us?
Robert Poorten/AdobestockWhere will all the electricity required for the increasing number of electric cars come from? The Shared Charging project aims to provide an answer to this common question. The research team is developing a novel approach to public charging systems that can be seamlessly integrated into renewable energy systems. The goal is to create a comprehensive, user-friendly network of charging points that is as accessible as today’s parking spaces – but powered by solar, wind and other renewable sources.
ODE helped PARI restructure messy public financial datasets into a clean, consistent format, making them more presentable and ready for reliable analysis
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Enhancing Fiscal Governance and Transparency in South African Municipalities first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.
Most people don’t know that Wikipedia is hosted by a nonprofit. Accurate information online is needed now more than ever, as is the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
How many times did you look up something on your phone today? Did you ask ChatGPT a question? How about Alexa or Siri or a social media site?
Ein echter Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu autonomen Raumfahrtsystemen: Ein Forschungsteam der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) hat einen KI-basierten Lageregler für Satelliten direkt im All erfolgreich getestet – eine Weltpremiere! Der Test fand an Bord des 3U-Nanosatelliten InnoCube statt.
aau/MüllerHow can systems solve complex problems such as creating a duty roster in a hospital or a time and room schedule at a university – while remaining clear and easy to follow? In the project ‘EX3: EXplain and EXploit Knowledge EXtracted to Improve ASP’, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Alice Tarzariol will be working on new methods for solving these kinds of issues more efficiently and accurately with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
Cette année, la revue Lex Electronica du Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) fête ses 30 ans. Fondée en 1995 par Karim Benyekhlef, elle est la première revue juridique en libre-accès de la francophonie. Ses 30 volumes et ses 74 numéros témoignent de sa persévérance et de son succès.
Have you taken care of all your appointments?
Many parents took vacation during the fall break week. This was not only noticeable among the staff, but also in the courses, where seats remained empty. Many of them were probably engaged in caregiving activities during this time.
In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Journal of Applied Ecology berichten Forschende der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), dass Rehe die natürliche Regeneration von Laubwäldern deutlich stärker einschränken als bislang angenommen. Das Team um Professor Jörg Müller hat in einem mehrjährigen Freilandexperiment gezeigt: Selbst wenn nach Störungen viel Licht in den Wald fällt, kann dieser Vorteil den selektiven Verbiss durch Rehe nicht kompensieren.
Verbiss verhindert positive Lichteffekte
Am Buß- und Bettag, den 19. November 2025, verwandelt sich die Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie der Julius‑Maximilians‑Universität Würzburg (JMU) in ein Quantenlabor: Unter dem Titel „Junior Conference on Quantum Physics“ erwartet Schülerinnen und Schüler der siebten bis neunten Klassen ein abwechslungsreiches Programm aus Workshops, spannenden Vorträgen und Experimenten.