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Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://fair.org/home/feds-threaten-wikipedia-after-right-wing-media-uproar/

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Publicly available factual information is a threat to an authoritarian regime

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedia, archive.org, and any similar essential services ought to be migrating their hosting and organizational headquarters to outside the US ASAP.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.

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    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If they take it down we’ll make it again.

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      • variants_of_concern@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gotta back it up

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  • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors

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    • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Got my snapshot from Jan.

      It’s only 20gb.

      You need an offline viewer. That’s a snap /flat hub install. Kiwix I believe

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      • zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just started, great suggestion.

      I can’t believe this shit. 2023 me wouldn’t believe I’d be doing half of the things I’m doing now.

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      • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just wait til 2025 you couldn’t possibly believe what '27’s got in stock :p

        Though, any server schenanagins That may interest me for some hypotheical good in the world?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No need

      Install the free offline reader software from here

      kiwix.org/en/

      Then grab what content you want from dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/

      Here’s English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/)wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim

      names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content

      if it says science or basketball, it’s just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.

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      • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was weighing some options and think I’ll be deploying this, thank you.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They literally don’t generate any revenue. Wikipedia is quite literally the definition of a non-profit.

    Also, trump is barred from running non-profits due to fraud in NY, I feel like that should disqualify him from making these kinds of decisions.

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.

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    • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re pretty flush with cash still. Trump can go after them, but for what? They’d need more corruption than they have in the judicial system today. They’ll get there eventually, but they don’t have it yet.

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      • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not that there is no danger, but I don’t see anything immediate.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like that is a mixed bag

      It really isn’t bad as is

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there any way to decentralize Wikipedia? P2P wikipedia? Because that seems like the best long term solution to this.

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    • 7toed@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, start with a mirror. A download is enough for yourself, but mirrors retain what is needed to rebuild the database. You will meed a lot of storage

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      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I torrented the text of english wikipedia one time and deleted it a few weeks after to make space for my Monero node. What I meant by “decentralized Wikipedia” would be not only the files being stored in multiple locations but there also being some sort of system (including moderation I suppose) to broadcast edits across the network

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How would that work?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair it is a little left leaning and the editors sometime massive jerks.

    However, it really isn’t bad at all. They do a pretty decent job of publishing factual information and Wikipedia is useful to a lot of people. Even if it was publishing propaganda they would still be protected under free speech. There are way more sketchy non profits than Wikipedia. It is kind of scaring that it is now a target

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    • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reality has a liberal bias

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      • m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Liberalism isnt based on reality, its constantly wrong. Only science is based on reality.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It really doesn’t

        Bias is a truly human thing. It comes from applying emotions to facts.

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  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The media manipulation information warfare department has virtually unlimited funds and anyone who steps out of line and questions the narrative gets the banhammer. That’s why they went after TikTok.

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  • yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedia has always been a right wing propaganda outlet. Libbiest among the supergigalibs

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    • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Please give an example of an objectionable article

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Check username

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