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 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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grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
warbond@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If they take it down we’ll make it again.
variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
Gotta back it up
7toed@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
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
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?
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.
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?
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
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.
7toed@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Was weighing some options and think I’ll be deploying this, thank you.
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.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.
stoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.
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.
stoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not that there is no danger, but I don’t see anything immediate.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I feel like that is a mixed bag
It really isn’t bad as is
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.
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
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
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How would that work?
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
Cheems@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reality has a liberal bias
m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Liberalism isnt based on reality, its constantly wrong. Only science is based on reality.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It really doesn’t
Bias is a truly human thing. It comes from applying emotions to facts.
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.
yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Wikipedia has always been a right wing propaganda outlet. Libbiest among the supergigalibs
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Publicly available factual information is a threat to an authoritarian regime