Wikipedia has always been a right wing propaganda outlet. Libbiest among the supergigalibs
Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar
Submitted 11 months 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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yet_another_commie@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months 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 11 months ago
Reality has a liberal bias
m532@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
Liberalism isnt based on reality, its constantly wrong. Only science is based on reality.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It really doesn’t
Bias is a truly human thing. It comes from applying emotions to facts.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
We need a federated Wikipedia (Fedipedia)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I feel like that is a mixed bag
It really isn’t bad as is
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wikipedia, archive.org, and any similar essential services ought to be migrating their hosting and organizational headquarters to outside the US ASAP.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That’s not something you can just do. All of there employees are Americans.
7toed@midwest.social 11 months ago
All you selfhosters out there, this is the cue to make your mirrors
rumba@lemmy.zip 11 months 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 11 months ago
Was weighing some options and think I’ll be deploying this, thank you.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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 11 months 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?
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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 11 months ago
Says ~110gb for all of english version via kiwix. Did you exclude images or something?
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Is there any way to decentralize Wikipedia? P2P wikipedia? Because that seems like the best long term solution to this.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
How would that work?
7toed@midwest.social 11 months 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 11 months 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
lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 11 months 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.
stoly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months ago
It’s not that there is no danger, but I don’t see anything immediate.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it’s in the single digit percentages of their funding.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
warbond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they take it down we’ll make it again.
variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Gotta back it up
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Publicly available factual information is a threat to an authoritarian regime
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Good news and fun fact, the entirety of Wikipedia can be downloaded quite easily.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download