Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
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Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
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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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That's not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.
It would be better if they were spread across many countries so that one place couldn't cause a problem.
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Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.
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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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We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
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If they take it down we'll make it again.
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Gotta back it up
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All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
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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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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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No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
Then grab what content you want from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here's English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 https://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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Was weighing some options and think I'll be deploying this, thank you.
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Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
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I think it's in the single digit percentages of their funding.
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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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It’s not that there is no danger, but I don’t see anything immediate.
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We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)
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Why?
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- It would allow multiple definitions for words (not eveyone agrees with what certain words mean)
- It would allow some instances to focus on being apolitical or more political.
- It would allow all wikis to be condenced into one platform (including possibly wikis like the Arch Wiki)
- It would help combat censorship
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I feel like that is a mixed bag
It really isn't bad as is
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Is there any way to decentralize Wikipedia? P2P wikipedia? Because that seems like the best long term solution to this.
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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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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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How would that work?
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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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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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Reality has a liberal bias
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Liberalism isnt based on reality, its constantly wrong. Only science is based on reality.
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It really doesn't
Bias is a truly human thing. It comes from applying emotions to facts. In reality there are no right answers and thus everything will always be biased.
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