Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wikipedia "summaries" are what? Lead sections?

Given the hoo-hah over corpus linguistics applied to WP, interesting that WP, with an explicit policy on neutral point of view, is showing up as less liberal than LLMs. Which do not have content policies, and come without disclaimers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_S...

And "Polk Salad Annie".

Presumably Vance wants to work up the Catholic hierarchy, and take on the vice-Pope. Then he'd be in a position to run for Pope himself.

Wow. So Trump is no FDR, no Truman and no Eisenhower. Also fails to be Washington and Lincoln.

Hmmm, hmmm. From where I sit (i.e. in front of Wikimedia content), the macro view that AI will "produce knowledge" in a valuable large-scale way real soon doesn't ring true. But the micro view that AI-supported search in the right hands brings power to a researcher's elbow holds water.

More interesting, technically speaking, is a "sloppy" mistake about Cecil Grant's Oxford degree. GP states he got a second class after two years; in fact he got a third in Greats in four years, in 1893. The source by Foster that GP cites was in the press in 1893.

Cecil Grant Cecil Grant (1870–1946) was a British Anglican clergyman and educationist renowned for founding St George's School in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, one of England's earliest purpose-built co-educational b...

Depths of Grokipedia, #5. Article on Cecil Grant tells us, anachronistically, that Keswick is in Cumbria. And waffles inordinately.

grokipedia.com/page/cecil_g...

Indeed, but IMDB is not a "reliable source" in Wikipedia's terms. "More research required."

new blog: "Rescuing Scholia #3: We did it!" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/02/28/rescuing-scholia-3-we-did-it.html https://doi.org/10.59350/kd793-2fe02

"For now, however, please use qlever.scholia.wiki." https://qlever.scholia.wiki/

#wikidata #scholia #qlever #sparql

Mrs Scarisbrick - National Portrait Gallery by Richard James Lane lithograph 22 January 1838 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Victorianists! Can you prove that "Mrs Scarisbrick" in this NPG lithograph is the mistress (not wife) of the very rich Charles Scarisbrick (1802-1860)? About whom I have just written a Wikipedia article.

www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

A question: Does anybody have any experience (or info they could point me to) extracting author affiliation information from the pdfs of books and/or articles, using AI or other automated processes?

"By our calculations Russia captured only 0.83% of Ukrainian territory in 2025".

When Teachers Dread Science, Students Suffer Adult anxieties about STEM can stifle children’s curiosity — but there are ways to break the cycle.

Attitudes toward #STEM are highly influenced by one’s own educational experiences.

‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place Completion of glass cross brings Antoni Gaudí’s church to maximum final height of 172.5m, 144 years after work began The final piece of the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia has been laid in place, bringing the church to its maximum final height 144 years after work began. After several days when it has been too windy to work, the upper section of the 17 metre-high four-sided steel and glass cross was winched into position at 11am on Friday, completing the tower dedicated to Jesus Christ. At 172.5 metres, the Sagrada Familia, to which the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí devoted the later part of his life, is Barcelona’s tallest building and the world’s tallest church. Continue reading...

‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place

AI fever sparks Raspberry Pi meme stock frenzy FTSE 250 company briefly hits £1bn valuation on signs of a surge in demand for its credit card-sized computers

AI fever sparks Raspberry Pi meme stock frenzy ft.trib.al/wRQULD2

@gobond.bsky.social

Charles Matthews interested in the Gobase situation and

gobase.org/studying/art... .

Go-related post. I hear that some content from gobase.org is being migrated to gobasearticles.org. I have many articles at gobase.org/studying/art....

Dutch Go Association: who is handling this?

Start from the premise that the US has 5% of the world's population, even if it has a larger proportion of the world's money. The state of health of 95% of the human race must count for something.

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data American citizens are left vulnerable

The Trump administration is dismantling America’s climate databases, firing expert staff and deleting key reports and analyses. Such actions will make important modelling harder

Have to say that Fergie doesn't belong in the same sentence as "politics" or "class".

Jess Wade started a Wikipedia article for her, in 2018.

Dynastic Egyptians, a Simpsons character, these I can believe.

Dorman baronets The Dorman Baronetcy, of Nunthorpe in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, created on 21 July 1923 for the steel manufacturer Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet. Th...

Depths of Grokipedia #4: grokipedia.com/page/dorman_...

"The coat of arms for the Dorman baronets has not been reliably documented in available sources." That reflects the total reliance of GP on the Web. Try opening a book.

Says more about academia, and the various modes of processing things (itself an academic area), than about what life has to offer.

Ley baronets The Ley baronets refer to the holders of two separate baronetcies created for members of the Ley family in the British honours system. The first, in the Baronetage of England, was granted on 20 July 1...

Depths of Grokipedia #3: grokipedia.com/page/ley_bar...

Where to start? I find it ironic that, while I am engaged in a project to put the various baronetcies sharing a surname on separate pages, GP mimics enWP by making a compound page. With typically sententious editorial.

Would fail at AfC.

Apparently Google Books search is back again. Still gives the bloated "new look" URLs that obstruct using the in-book search. But the suffix &focus=searchwithinbook exists.

To state the obvious, it is a face-saving exercise by Musk. He can afford vanity projects - others not so much.

Another way: custom site search, e.g.

site:books.google.com "Henry VIII"

in google.com .