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Wikipedia made doomscrollable

Xikipedia is an experiment in user experience: Wikipedia content formatted into an infinite-scroll mobile-friendly feed. So ...
If you’ve ever wanted a social media feed that’s a bit more educational, that dream is now a reality thanks to Xikipedia.
I ended up choosing Wikipedia because I figured it had good content and metadata for what I had planned—I did not want to use anything ml/ai for this project, so it was a perfect fit.” Though ...
While it's important to stay informed about what's going on in the world, endlessly scrolling through your social media feeds and absorbing what's likely to be a largely negative influx of information ...
In one effort to stop the trolls, Wikimedia Foundation partnered with Jigsaw (the tech incubator formerly known as Google Ideas) on a research project called Detox using machine learning to flag ...
Where are the world’s most influential universities? That’s a question that increasingly dominates the way the public, governments, and funding agencies think about research and higher education. The ...