As soon as you leave English language wikipedia this happens fairly often. Not necessarily Russian, maybe adjacent. And not since yesterday! I noticed around Corona, and it’s been a problem for way longer. It’s relatively easy for 1 editor to slip through unnoticed if there isn’t enough eyeballs on the article.
Pro-Russian Narratives Target Wikipedia, Marking a Dangerous Trend for AI Chatbot Data
Submitted 20 hours ago by wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Sims@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
“that some believe may be part of a Russian influence operation”
Jeebus a bunch of drivel propaganda… The whole site is the same kind of nonsense fantasy. They just jump along on the dumdum official propaganda narrative about the baad baad Russia… Incredible that people still haven’t figured out that they were conned - played - by US/western elites.
Oh well, fortunately Russia will survive Nato’s proxy war against them, and they’ll survive primitive propaganda as this ‘article’.
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 19 hours ago
Annnnnd that’s why I downloaded a snapshot of Wikipedia a few months ago and host it locally.
Sad that it’s necessary, but with modern AI tooling, we have everything we need to destroy knowledge on an industrial scale.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
How do you selfhost Wikipedia? Any good guides in how to do it?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Wikipedia has guides for it; Check the downloading wikipedia section. The most popular offline client atm is Kiwix reader