Wikiphilia (with Amy O’Riordan)

About this episode

Kelly and Elaine discuss their love for Wikipedia and its challenges with guest Amy O’Riordan.

This week Kelly and Elaine are sharing their love for Wikipedia – its endless interesting links, dedication to niche topics, and, of course, the ‘Personal Life’ section. Amy O’Riordan, bhainisteoir pobail le Pobal Éireann Wikimedia (AKA the community manager of Wikimedia Community Ireland) joins us for this chat about the famous online encyclopaedia’s challenges with AI, vandalism, content gaps and reliable sources, as well as the sheer passion of the volunteers that keep this great collaboration going. *** Good things we recommend *** >> Wikipedia , of course   >> Wikimedia.ie for more on the Irish Wiki community >> Wiki Loves Earth photography competition   >> Depths of Wikipedia by Annie Rauwerda   >> No Mow May 🌼   >> Birdfeeding advice from Niall Hatch at BirdWatch Ireland 🐦  *** More from us *** Kelly’s Substack: kellysrubbish.substack.com   FTS blog: for-techs-sake.ghost.io   FTS TikTok: fortechssakepod   FTS Instagram: fortechssakepod   FTS Bluesky: fortechssakepod.bsky.social FTS UpScrolled: fortechssakepod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Elaine Burke, Kelly Earley

Guest: Amy O’Riordan

Topics covered

• Wikipedia
• AI challenges
• vandalism
• content gaps
• volunteerism
• online encyclopaedia

Keywords

• Wikipedia
• AI
• vandalism
• content gaps
• volunteers
• Wikimedia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikimedia Community Ireland, Wikipedia, Wikimedia.ie, BirdWatch Ireland

Books & works: Depths of Wikipedia

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