Wikipedia, archive.org, and any similar essential services ought to be migrating their hosting and organizational headquarters to outside the US ASAP.
Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
Submitted 16 hours 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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grue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
That’s not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
warbond@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If they take it down we’ll make it again.
variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 11 hours ago
Gotta back it up
7toed@midwest.social 14 hours ago
All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours 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
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I feel like that is a mixed bag
It really isn’t bad as is
stoly@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 10 hours 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.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Is there any way to decentralize Wikipedia? P2P wikipedia? Because that seems like the best long term solution to this.
7toed@midwest.social 14 hours 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
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 14 hours 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
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
How would that work?
yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 9 hours ago
Wikipedia has always been a right wing propaganda outlet. Libbiest among the supergigalibs
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 hours 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
lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 14 hours 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.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Publicly available factual information is a threat to an authoritarian regime