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Mike Dickison

@Adzebill@ausglam.space

hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0

Wikipedian at Large, dabbles in knitting/sketching/tablet weaving, amateur naturalist, former museum curator and typography teacher, now chipping away at open-knowledge projects in Ōtautahi, New Zealand.

866 Followers

291 Following

5 Posts

Joined April 26, 2022

Pronouns:

Dr Him

Website:

http://www.rove.wiki

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giantflightlessbirds

Licence:

CC BY 4.0 International

Mike Dickison @Adzebill@ausglam.space

· 36mo ago

Wikipedia was around before Elon Musk’s current business empire, and will be here long after he and his companies crash and burn—events its volunteer editors will meticulously, neutrally, and accurately chronicle. Wikipedia will quote and archive his asinine remarks for future generations of historians. It must drive him crazy.

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Mike Dickison @Adzebill@ausglam.space

· 13mo ago

Friends don’t repost AI-generated art to their friends.

Mike Dickison @Adzebill@ausglam.space

· 36mo ago

Replying to

@billbennett@mastodon.nz Let him try. He can’t out-compete it, buy it, or squash it. Musk’s troll army can’t even sanitise his own Wikipedia article. Declaring war on Wikipedia would actually mobilise 250,000 volunteers to protect it, and he can’t afford to pay enough people to attack it.

Mike Dickison @Adzebill@ausglam.space

· 36mo ago

Replying to

@billbennett@mastodon.nz The Foundation has good lawyers and is used to defending attempted shutdowns from entire governments. Again, let him try.

Mike Dickison @Adzebill@ausglam.space

· 25mo ago

Replying to

@HannahClover @funcrunch @annierau You’ve inspired me to finally blog this process. Short answer: corner the person at an event, take a pic “for Wikipedia” & show them, upload it, they don’t really like it and send you a better one which they didn’t take, you explain copyright law to them, contact their photographer and create an email release to be forwarded, meanwhile they send you a not-great selfie and you create another email release. Best I’ve worked out.