Steve Jankowski
@textaural.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Edit: "edit history" is the wrong term. There are no dates attached to the edits.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Edit: "edit history" is the wrong term. There are no dates attached to the edits.
Some pages are based on Wikipedia but then edited, and it includes an edit history (top right icon).
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Some pages are based on Wikipedia but then edited, and it includes an edit history (top right icon).
Well I'm a dumb-dumb. It literally says that it is a version of the Wikipedia page. So no mystery there.
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Well I'm a dumb-dumb. It literally says that it is a version of the Wikipedia page. So no mystery there.
Telltale signs about whether it is generated or a Wikipedia-forked page might be found in the References section.
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Telltale signs about whether it is generated or a Wikipedia-forked page might be found in the References section.
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
Also: here's the auto-suggest for articles related to abortion between Grokipedia and Wikipedia.
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Also: here's the auto-suggest for articles related to abortion between Grokipedia and Wikipedia.
The "Canada" article also includes what looks like an artifact of the generation process where the Grok is talking to itself ... maybe?
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The "Canada" article also includes what looks like an artifact of the generation process where the Grok is talking to itself ... maybe?
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
-- I'll be honest, I should have known about this but I didn't. It should have been included in this thing; at least for background. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Wikipedia imaginaire: a new media history beyond Wikipedia.org (2001–2022)
This paper presents a media biography of Wikipedia’s data that focuses on the interpretative flexibility of Wikipedia and digital knowledge between the years 2001 and 2022. To do so, I not only fol...
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
-- I'll be honest, I should have known about this but I didn't. It should have been included in this thing; at least for background. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
And employees suggested Adorno & Horkheimer as well as Jenny Odell and Tim Wu as part of their reading lists a16z.com/16-x4-books-...; Walter Benjamin a16z.com/ai-crypto-in...; and Marx back in 2014 a16z.com/announcement...
16 (x4) Books We’re Reading This Summer 2019 | Andreessen Horowitz
Summer is finally here, and hopefully that means a little more time to kick back, relax, and read. So we at a16z compiled our biannual recommendations (you can see the last one here) of what to read. ...
a16z.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And employees suggested Adorno & Horkheimer as well as Jenny Odell and Tim Wu as part of their reading lists a16z.com/16-x4-books-...; Walter Benjamin a16z.com/ai-crypto-in...; and Marx back in 2014 a16z.com/announcement...
"No one will care" they said.
Narrator: we did care.
Narrator: we did care.
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"No one will care" they said.
Narrator: we did care.
Narrator: we did care.
I support this proposal.
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I support this proposal.
Perhaps of interest might be some related work on deep time from one of my collegues journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Deep Time and Microtime: Anthropocene Temporalities and Silicon Valley’s Longtermist Scope - Jakko Kemper, 2024
Living in Anthropocene times entails living in relation to two seemingly separate temporalities – the microtime of digital operations and the deep time of geolo...
journals.sagepub.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Perhaps of interest might be some related work on deep time from one of my collegues journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is such a great question.
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is such a great question.
Fun fact: Pepe the frog was repurposed in 2019 during Hong Kong demonstrations. www.wired.com/story/pepe-t...
Pepe the Frog Means Something Different in Hong Kong—Right?
Pepe is popping up all over Hong Kong—on walls, in forums, in sticker packs for apps—as a symbol of resistance against an authoritarian state.
www.wired.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fun fact: Pepe the frog was repurposed in 2019 during Hong Kong demonstrations. www.wired.com/story/pepe-t...
This is part of a long-term trend that began when Wikipedia released its Wiki-data under a CC0 license, and Google created knowledge panels based on this information. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC.... The recent use of AI is raising more concerns the digital commons ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is part of a long-term trend that began when Wikipedia released its Wiki-data under a CC0 license, and Google created knowledge panels based on this information. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC.... The recent use of AI is raising more concerns the digital commons ijoc.org/index.php/ij...