Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless. - ThreadSky

anildash.com • 46 days ago

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism

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Comments

jeffcarver.bsky.social•46 days ago

Just made my donation to Wikipedia. So should you, if you haven't.

jauntywk.bsky.social•46 days ago

So frustrating that it's so nakedly Heritage/Project2025 versus World things are & how there's just so few available defenses or ways to reduce how laterally viciously these aggressively multi-domain loitering fire tornados of shit are.

Such a pitiful foe for the republic.

diavolo07.bsky.social•45 days ago

I donate to Wikipedia every year and more should give if they can for this valuable platform. Wikipedia’s founder is incredibly underrated. Complete opposite of the greedy, unethical, lying scum we hear about every day.

bertch313.bsky.social•45 days ago

They're already erasing Indigenous place names from the US entries

Started in September based on the dates 51+ entries were changed on just one page of an island in the Detroit river

And they did it after COVID on purpose
But the wayback machine was also attacked & I'm sure it's all part of it

ahsokatano00.bsky.social•32 days ago

Wikipedia has systemic biases against Native Americans for some time.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/wikipedia-native-american-history-settler-colonialism.html

eric623.bsky.social•46 days ago

nah according to @jj-mccullough.bsky.social it's garbage 🙄

jj-mccullough.bsky.social•46 days ago

It is. I hope the MAGA hoards ruin it.

eric623.bsky.social•46 days ago

it's the last bastion of unbiased free information on the internet.

jj-mccullough.bsky.social•46 days ago

It's biased as hell. And I think information should not be a monopoly. There should be multiple sources, not just one place everyone goes for everything.

ahsokatano00.bsky.social•32 days ago

There are good resources on why Wikipedia shouldn't be canonized.
https://www.reddit.com/r/watchwikipediadie/wiki/scandals
https://bsky.app/profile/merryrobin.bsky.social/post/3kz7vtxh3gs2g

ahsokatano00.bsky.social•32 days ago

If Jennsaurus has her way this year, the death of Wikipedia will become inevitable.
https://bsky.app/profile/merryrobin.bsky.social/post/3l55nfadhvq27

rebeccaore.bsky.social•45 days ago

The thing I go by is I favor the side that lies less. And as a resident of Nicaragua, I could correct lies that didn't match what I saw on the ground. If you want multiple sources, create your own web data base. Information is what doesn't go away when you refuse to consider it.

genknoxx.bsky.social•32 days ago

I’m a Wikipedia editor. It is less garbage than anything else.

I’m so sick of seeing “burn it all down”. If we try to fully honor every faction from the jump there’ll be nothing left. We have to actually fix the broken things.

marlutte.bsky.social•46 days ago

Nothing that can be done about it since the foundation has infinite resources and dedicated lunatics, and Wikipedia is running out of budget to sustain itself. So we are just learning that we have no more free information left now. Such is the will of our tyrants.

elinwaring.bsky.social•46 days ago

There are good reasons they encourage you not to use your real name when editing.

kencf0618.bsky.social•46 days ago

My editing name is tattooed ON MY ARM

lewiswhatshisname.com•46 days ago

I’ve gone back to uni after 20 years, but I’ve decided to do it online. There’s a lot of interacting and discussing on message boards, where you’re meant to sign your name after each post. 30 years of being anonymous online is making this impossible to remember, and it feels so wrong when I do

olddragoon.bsky.social•46 days ago

I donated. You should too. Keep it independent.

borninthenorth.bsky.social•46 days ago

So all my life I thought we were going to be under North Korea rule, but come to find out we’re gonna be Russians.

Well, I mean we might as well just get used to state propaganda, right .?🤬🤬🛸🍸🍊🔫🔫🔫🔫

donek311.bsky.social•46 days ago

Run the sherlock-project on your usernames, probably also good to check the "haveibeenpwned" site. https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/

donek311.bsky.social•46 days ago

Digging a little more, there's definitely concern here but there are more steps Wiki editors can take in order to stay "sterile" while updating.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/#fingerprinting-protection

There are multiple steps here, PITA, but good net hygiene can counter some of their bpoints.

donek311.bsky.social•46 days ago

I'm watching a good, fantasy dystopian movie (BR 2049), sorry if repeating myself.

The controlled redirects are an interesting ploy, might read a little more into this because I can only think of nefarious executions.

Or host wiki in EU, flip everyone the bird, I'll still donate & pay conv fee 😂

cogbarn.bsky.social•46 days ago

Elon Musk has been on a personal jihad against Wikipedia for years. It contains negative information about him; therefore, he wants to kill it.

elmodog.bsky.social•45 days ago

I'm conflicted on this one because I don't like big money going after little-guy volunteers, but the antisemitism is palpable and concerted.

carouzzz.bsky.social•46 days ago

A paradoxical way to be sure antisemitism flourishes

zdroberts.bsky.social•45 days ago

You might want to check the actual sources on wikipedia for once. Where do they come from? Maybe all the sites that you think are being bought?

Where do you think that journalism and information comes from?

vtgal.bsky.social•45 days ago

Everyone who can should donate to Wikipedia asap…

paul-melman.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wikipedia doesn't need money. It has funds for decades. All your donations go to the Wikipedia Foundation's other unrelated projects

mel13x.bsky.social•45 days ago

📌

choosenofkek.bsky.social•46 days ago

If it spreads antisemitism, let it burn. Or at least the fuckers that spread it.

ibrar-dev.bsky.social•45 days ago

"for facts that they can't buy"

👏

stagewrite.bsky.social•46 days ago

Why I donated.

penultimace.bsky.social•46 days ago

We should fund it instead to grab all those fact checkers and moderators who got booted by Facebook hire academics to maintain articles in their fields and have them approve article updates by committee of recognized experts who needs textbooks? Make kids versions per grade help teachers and schools

johnhempton.bsky.social•45 days ago

I have corrected falsehoods on Wikipedia just to have them reversed.

I gave up.

At its best Wikipedia is wonderful. At its worst it reflects the prejudice of the most committed.

musicntutor.bsky.social•46 days ago

I have been donating $5 a month to Wikipedia since 2016. And I am a public editor ( i mostly do 1990s rock music stuff- there r so many ACCURATE data on any subject!) No antisemite stuff I noticed. Bait& Switch by Heritage for sure! Ooops- NEW antisemite entry about George Soros but is in EDIT mode

bluewavevermont.bsky.social•46 days ago

We got to donate to wiki!

@wikipedia.bsky.social

STOP THE ATTACK ON ACCURATE INFO AND FREE PRESS

oldnewdad.bsky.social•46 days ago

Hope that the Wiki page for the Heritage Foundations is just one sentence.

Heritage Foundation: Eat A Dick.

aaaac.bsky.social•45 days ago

It’s sad to say but I never seen those guys lose. I’ll miss Wikipedia when it’s gone.

zenosanalytic.bsky.social•46 days ago

Given that Conservatism in general is a rejection of the Enlightenment and its fundamental idea that humans can access Truth through their own faculties, it was inevitable that Republicans would attack something as dedicated to public knowledge as Wikipedia

joelsftw.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wait, isn't that illegal or something?

zkat.tech•46 days ago

I made a wikipedia account under a pseudo-pseudonymous handle in the recent past, but it sounds like I need to go full incognito if I ever want to contribute? This is so fucking creepy.

ahsokatano00.bsky.social•32 days ago

Wikipedia itself is not better than Musk in the end because last year they doxxed the personal details of users who edited the page about far-right media ANI to the Indian High Court.
https://bsky.app/profile/ahsokatano00.bsky.social/post/3ldltufsruc2q

jorichardskent.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’ve made very small monthly donations to Wikipedia for many years now.

I use Wikipedia a lot so I think it’s only fair to pay for their service.

About:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

Donate:

https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LandingPage&country=GB&uselang=en&wmf_medium=spontaneous&wmf_source=fr-redir&wmf_campaign=spontaneous

#Wikipedia

jorichardskent.bsky.social•46 days ago

telecomone.bsky.social•46 days ago

Always check its sources.

pasch-x.bsky.social•46 days ago

Not ashamed to say that I donate annually what little bit of coin I can to wikipedia, & if this is any indication of the service it provides, I will continue to do so

wildthingthree.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yknow, two can play these games. I really hope there are some decent folks out there with the skills to fight back.

ldo17.bsky.social•45 days ago

Arabs are Semites, too.

swyphd.bsky.social•46 days ago

Has @wikipedia.bsky.social released any response? What can users/readers do to help protect the editors?

zaryndunn.bsky.social•46 days ago

donate to them, it will help them fight against the bullshit.

jofromkansas.bsky.social•46 days ago

This aligns with Project Esther.

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/project-esther-national-strategy-combat-antisemitism

demodisping.bsky.social•46 days ago

What does "go after mean" exactly. Being volunteers it's not like they could be threatened with losing a source of income.

jamonbull.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wikipedia is the most important website on the internet. It must be protected at all costs.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•46 days ago

How are we going to defend it? It's time to start going on offense against the billionaires.

jamonbull.bsky.social•46 days ago

We could start by deleting Meta and X accounts to send a message that we won’t be willing participants in their agenda. I’ve already done this.

excalibur493.bsky.social•46 days ago

I sent my twitter to the bin. Figured Musk would start spying on users, so I jumped ship.

jamonbull.bsky.social•46 days ago

Just hope here continues to grow! Still some key accounts I’d like to be here that aren’t.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•45 days ago

He knows everyone's IP addresses and if you're on a VPN they'll all hand them over too.

excalibur493.bsky.social•45 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if he actually did have everyones' IPs...

IP freely.

susansmith65.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wikipedia and the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine. Don't let those weasels rewrite history.

redandblackman.bsky.social•45 days ago

We can`t have "1984" as a textbook.

condensery.bsky.social•45 days ago

I just donated to Wikipedia-second time in the last six months. I encourage others to do the same!

midwestphoto.bsky.social•46 days ago

I think it’s pretty safe to say that #ConservativesRuinEverything.

swirlytwirlymom.bsky.social•46 days ago

So we need to go after the heritage foundation. Who are they? We need details. How are they funded? Who supports them? And who do that sponsor? We need to get them!

beachsidewilly.bsky.social•45 days ago

All these Heritage Foundation types have names & addresses.

unclericodynamite.bsky.social•46 days ago

bamaguy1.bsky.social•45 days ago

Remember: Heritage Foundation IS PROJECT 2025!

cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social•46 days ago

the fact that this is happening at the same time as a group of Polish nationalists' campaign to distort the history of The Holocaust on wikipedia is some truly terrible timing, holy shit

maria-goretti.bsky.social•31 days ago

Time to set up the monthly payments folks

hauntedtypewriter.bsky.social•46 days ago

Are they going to disappear people into Trump's concentration camps? That would be the move that makes the most sense to make this work, to keep their regime safe.

vote-blue24.bsky.social•46 days ago

That was the first thing that crossed my mind.

drshowup.bsky.social•46 days ago

this shit is real

flowerstick.bsky.social•46 days ago

This can’t happen.

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

I’m a public school teacher.

Wikipedia and “Facts” do not belong in the same sentence. That is why students are not allowed to cite Wikipedia as a source.

anildash.com•45 days ago

we should have killed all of the insurrectionists.

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

Then you would have seen some real gun violence and insurrection.

anildash.com•45 days ago

lol can always tell when one of you guys who hates real America shows up. why don't you get back to trying to murder Mike Pence?

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

I think Trump is a braggadocious boor and womanizer. I also don’t view presidential elections as contests for homecoming king.

You resort to boring insult when someone challenges your opinions when its more profitable to comport yourself like an adult and actually engage in a dialogue.

iramjohn.bsky.social•45 days ago

You shouldn't cite Wikipedia, not because it's unreliable. And banning any source without explanation does a disservice to students. Teaching them to critically evaluate sources is useful.

Students know everyone uses it, including teachers. So they learn teachers are hypocrites and untrustworthy

iramjohn.bsky.social•45 days ago

Teaching students how to evaluate the reliability of what they read gives them critical skills.

Conservatives in particular should be concerned that they are teaching kids that authority figures "back home" are hypocrites.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Source? I am a teacher myself so I know about the norm that students shouldn't cite it in schoolwork. But that isn't due to Wikipedia being unreliable, actually. What is your authoritative source for Wikipedia being generally unreliable?

anildash.com•45 days ago

he's a vice-signaler, who came to bluesky because conservatives are unable to create anything original, so they have to find places that normal people congregate, and then argue with normal people by disagree with the rational things that normal people say. you don't need to engage with him.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Sorry about the mess.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

I shouldn't feed the trolls, I know. Generally I am good about that.

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

Why don’t you try engaging an alleged troll and see if you can agree on ANYTHING and perhaps tone down the heat.

Geez Louise you people need a glass of wine.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

What would have been a polite, reasonable way to engage you, given the insulting, unreasonable way in which you rolled in?

You implied liberals are fools for not believing something that is patently false. What are we supposed to do with that besides highlight the patent falsehood - your premise?

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

I need only appeal to common academia practice that dictates that Wikipedia does not meet the academic rigor to be cited as a reputable source.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yes but if you really are a teacher you know why that is a bad argument. You know you're wrong, and I know you're wrong, and you know that I know you're wrong. So cut it out - or cite an authoritative source that Wikipedia is generally unreliable.

mrflteacher.bsky.social•45 days ago

An appeal to authority is not fallacious when the authority is a recognized expert in the specific subject area being discussed, namely, academia possesses the aggregate knowledge to determine if a source rises to the level of academic rigor required to be cited in a college paper.

jholbo.bsky.social•45 days ago

I think you know why that is a bad argument. Let's start with this: if everyone else besides you - all the academic libs - are insane and wrong, then you can't really appeal to their collective wisdom. They aren't sane! So what is your argument really. Drop the bogus mask opinion & give a real one.

nmacthepunk.bsky.social•45 days ago

This isn't 2012 anymore.

Wikipedia has multiple fact checkers & verifiers for the information

quick13.bsky.social•46 days ago

Same with The Guardian.

ambarglv.bsky.social•46 days ago

This year is only a week in and the news keeps getting worse. SMH 😔

tjhaugo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Elon flexing he can spend a cool billion on a dick joke while the middle class is being completely driven under has peak dystopian vibes

nimrodmogul.bsky.social•45 days ago

actually fucking ridiculous. we are being ruled over by cartoon villains

tjhaugo.bsky.social•45 days ago

It's rough, fam

jayhay.bsky.social•45 days ago

Even cartoon villains are more relatable.

rjb44.bsky.social•45 days ago

This is so insane

scrivener45.bsky.social•45 days ago

lol.

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•46 days ago

The Heritage Foundation are prototypical bullies. Not only can they fuck off but everyone should take pride and pleasure telling them fuck off and post their small donations the minute they go public

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•46 days ago

We must do more than just tell them to fuck off. Fascists only understand one language and Luigi has shown us the way.

4lexandre.bsky.social•45 days ago

Protect and save Wikipedia at all cost.

kataan13.bsky.social•45 days ago

Racists calling Wikipedia calling out racism?

wanderer3147.bsky.social•46 days ago

Because Wikipedia is nothing but facts.
How can we stop this attack on the truth?#Fascism

democracystarthere.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is how democracies die. We've seen this before.

wispyspiderorchid.bsky.social•44 days ago

I feel sick. This is never going to end is it?

titudeadjust.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wikipedia has a clear and well-documented slant. Not that they should have the Heritage people take over, but let's not canonize them.

iconoplasty.bsky.social•46 days ago

Then the thugs themselves must be doxxed.

No more high mindedness. They will continue until they pay a price.

groundedtardis.bsky.social•45 days ago

Just for comparison for our future: https://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/3.htm

nuggetthenonbiner.bsky.social•45 days ago

School: "You can't trust Wikipedia, anybody can edit that!"

Reality: Army of dedicated volunteer editors that are, at this point, poised to be more trustworthy than the literal schools themselves in a few years (IF WE'RE LUCKY ENOUGH FOR IT TO TAKE THAT LONG)

martje.bsky.social•46 days ago

Mijn hemel.

catomama.bsky.social•46 days ago

May have to up my donations.

richardson8.bsky.social•45 days ago

As if the Heritage Society GAF about antisemitism...

thefreyarose.bsky.social•46 days ago

I hate this reality

marcellograz.bsky.social•45 days ago

MacKenzie Scott could chime in...

meirbenzeev.bsky.social•45 days ago

Historical facts about Jews are what they are. They cannot be altered.

rebeccaore.bsky.social•45 days ago

Israeli archeologists are doing research into who lived where when and which archaic settlements did or didn't have pig bones. The whole slavery in Egypt and roaming around the Sinai is as accurate as the Eskimo account of defending a Russian invasion force. The Holocaust was real.

davidnice.bsky.social•45 days ago

So let's donate to Wikipedia now. I'm going to do just that.

cjhoping.bsky.social•46 days ago

Support Wikipedia please. End what you can, perhaps a few dollars from your coffee budget? We do a monthly $10.00, every bit helps.

danielplas.bsky.social•45 days ago

Just made a donation to Wikipedia, as a statement. And will continue in the future.

I consult Wikipedia more than once a day.

peltast1.bsky.social•46 days ago

Reddit has been under attack for a while. You just need to keep having people on your payroll volunteer to do work, eventually you'll have a critical mass of corrupted personnel in the inside and you can nazify the site. It may take a few years but success is assured.

pisqsig3.bsky.social•45 days ago

Time to download and make mirror copies.

laughingcorvus.bsky.social•46 days ago

the heritage foundation should be regarded the same way we regard any other hate group

moocowsue.bsky.social•46 days ago

Donate to Wiki to keep it viable!
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LandingPage&country=US&uselang=en&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_source=donate&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org

big-steppa.bsky.social•46 days ago

It’s actually crazy how threatened these people are when it comes to the truth

Anyways, here’s a link to downloading the entire database of Wikipedia for free to self host your own mini Wikipedia

It’s around 100gb

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

gonechoo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Downloading this. Is this enough?

gonechoo.bsky.social•45 days ago

SAVE.

big-steppa.bsky.social•46 days ago

Here’s the self host software

Don’t let the greedy oligarchs bring you down

https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Software

fwkessam.bsky.social•43 days ago

📌

paradigm317.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wiki won’t bend nor break. Not a chance

stevehutcheson.bsky.social•46 days ago

More likely, because they refuse to promote Israeli propaganda

sarabaker.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh, this is bad. Volunteer editors will need some serious privacy first aid to protect themselves.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•46 days ago

I think we need to start making billionaires have to take steps to protect themselves.

tjhaugo.bsky.social•45 days ago

Like Elon carrying a human shield everywhere?

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•45 days ago

deadlyflowers.bsky.social•45 days ago

What do you think ownership of the entire governing apparatus is for them? They literally have the state protecting them, proactively and reactively.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•45 days ago

Luigi would like a word

deadlyflowers.bsky.social•45 days ago

Luigi found a crack in the protection to take out a bit player that the real players will now mobilize to address. Why do you think they are trying to pin him with an attempted murder charge for each bullet and a terrorism charge on top? Why would the Feds be involved for a petty, state-level crime?

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•45 days ago

rebeccaore.bsky.social•45 days ago

Because his crime brought out a lot of stories from people who thought they weren't part of a 30% or so claim rejection rate. The US public voted for public health care when they elected Bill Clinton and when they elected Obama. Clinton simply didn't. Obama allowed the for profits to take over.

luluinportland.bsky.social•45 days ago

I love that for them.😉😊

mirjam.bsky.social•45 days ago

I've also been worried about the Internet Archive for a good while now

thestampedehero.bsky.social•46 days ago

The red hats would applaud without topic merit earned
We saw this subterfuge and the maga cult blindly ignored the scope of P25.

lilnibbler.bsky.social•45 days ago

the wikipedia page for heritage foundation getting real long

jooltman.bsky.social•46 days ago

If we ALL become Wikipedia editors, might there be some safety in numbers?

bertfoxson.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is why it is important to donate to Wikipedia in order to have and keep this site as a factual reference.

neilallenfan.bsky.social•37 days ago

If Elon Musk hates it, I love it.

4debra.bsky.social•46 days ago

this is disgusting to the utmost!

erupton.bsky.social•46 days ago

The antisemitism is very very bad, even if right-wingers think so as well. At this point it’s just vandalism.

sweetmaya.bsky.social•46 days ago

Why would they look for Wikipedia editors? Don't they have nothing to do with their lives? tss

srem.bsky.social•46 days ago

I really dislike the Heritage Foundation

frodofox420.bsky.social•46 days ago

It should be noted all of Wikipedia can be downloaded, or by specific topics.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5-iG8ocg5nk?si=BRym-mDGfIsBJ9xE

uhjustin.bsky.social•45 days ago

It might be time to take the fight to Heritage Foundation.

itsmebaileyc.bsky.social•45 days ago

How??

4ourdemocracy.bsky.social•45 days ago

yes, how?

the-hampter.bsky.social•43 days ago

The right has been fighting particularly hard for an amendment that can be used against them

nullnein.bsky.social•45 days ago

besides the PR companies that edit Wikipedia entries for their clients

diamantinamua.bsky.social•46 days ago

History is written by the winners. Wikipedia is something we can defend.
Please donate a couple of bucks. We can all afford it.

arj0.bsky.social•45 days ago

This huge ‘free speech’ BS is just a way to silence resistance to Israel’s genocide.

A week ago Israel said they were spending $150m on a new deluge of hasbara or ‘global PR’.

Zios are embedded in tech platforms too.

stormchaser007.bsky.social•45 days ago

How can we fight back?

yesiamfunny.bsky.social•45 days ago

I am an editor. Attack me

meander061.bsky.social•46 days ago

I've always donated to Wikipedia, but now I've made it monthly because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, f*ck conservatives, and Elon in particular.

antikerbal.bsky.social•45 days ago

He will be found in his bath tub.

meander061.bsky.social•45 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!🤣

nuggetthenonbiner.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah this sounds like what I'd expect from Fusion Fall Dexter.

cookievargas.bsky.social•46 days ago

I'm worried about the Internet Archive/ Wayback Machine.
It contains a lot.

northstar1939.bsky.social•46 days ago

So am I. That resource has been indispensable for me, being without a vehicle most of the time and the nearest library 40+ miles away.

emfish81.bsky.social•45 days ago

Wicked came out at the right time. This is literally Wicked which was made to expose fascism.

alastair-3153.bsky.social•45 days ago

I support Wikipedia even though I'm unemployed, £3 every few months is a small price to pay for unbiased information that is actually fact checked, unlike Facebook and X. Musk is just an insult to stupidity.

eloweasy.bsky.social•46 days ago

Just set up a monthly donation to them for this reason

snorider.bsky.social•45 days ago

Support Wikipedia, the truth matters.

dashamarush.bsky.social•46 days ago

Sadly, Wikipedia still has a lot of inaccuracies.

haideeleclair.bsky.social•46 days ago

Shit, this is a real problem. We need to step up. (I worry about this stat: Mid-20s males and retired males are the largest demographics.)
See Wikipedia data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F

magicvalley.bsky.social•46 days ago

Wiki is too influenced by marketers.

ahsokatano00.bsky.social•32 days ago

Given that Wikipedia itself has been corrupted by antisemitism and so on it's prolly better to download all of Wikipedia articles and fork from there.
https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/378546/wikipedias-supreme-court-on-the-verge-of-topic-banning-8-editors-from-israel-palestine-area/

sobechi.bsky.social•45 days ago

How can a bigoted, anti-semitic organization fight antisemitism?

allyhartwell.bsky.social•45 days ago

jackisherenow.bsky.social•46 days ago

There’s already a Cabal doing their evil deeds on Wikipedia now, just on a narrow set of topics.

brandony.bsky.social•45 days ago

The only weapon these ghouls have against truth is making people afraid to speak it.

astro-broccoli.bsky.social•46 days ago

Don't forget Discord and gaming platforms. 😔 Those are huge opportunities to radicalize a captive audience

ivalaine.bsky.social•46 days ago

Who says they cant buy it?

mhaberman00.bsky.social•46 days ago

Where’s mark Cuban?

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•46 days ago

How perfectly on time, I literally just 2 days ago instructed my team to download ALL of Wikipedia. It's roughly 110 gigs. Because when Muskrat boy started running his mouth about it I knew what the Fuck boy was telegraphing to his brainless audience. DO THIS NOW!

freekwiedijk.bsky.social•45 days ago

How much is it including the media?

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yes the 110 gigs includes all media ( not sure about audio, need to check it ), you can tweak it so it doesn't have media for those with various needs.

wintersong.bsky.social•46 days ago

What is the process for doing so?

swinxy.bsky.social•46 days ago

The Foundation makes dumps of all its projects in all languages, which makes things easy.

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•46 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•46 days ago

Here's the Link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

marshle1.bsky.social•44 days ago

What download am i looking for? All the options are confusing me.

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•44 days ago

I would recommend searching a YouTube tutorial on the subject. Just choose one with lots a views and positive comments. Great option for those that aren't confident in approaching a task like this. It's an 8hr download, regardless of computer speed. It keeps their servers from being overwhelmed.

marshle1.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ah I see. Okay will do. And an 8 hour download is fine, i can just start it like tomorrow morning or something and it'll be done across the day. I know ive got the space for it.

aryaze.bsky.social•46 days ago

I have a 4TB hard drive I don't know what to do with. Guess I'll use a bit of it for this purpose.

fascist-enemy.bsky.social•46 days ago

Like my southern mom used to say, Get on it Dawg gone it ✌️

notappearingint.bsky.social•44 days ago

📌

popecrocodylus.bsky.social•46 days ago

Luckily for us "volunteer Wikipedia editors" take their job about 1000x as seriously as "elected officials" do.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•46 days ago

Haha this is actually true. 👏👏

kathiebwh.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’m giving them money now because I use their platform a lot and these accusations are complete BS!

cxxdesigner.bsky.social•46 days ago

And it's under the guide of "antisemitism", so Democrats are bound to be fully onboard. Pathetic.

blueeyedhexe.bsky.social•46 days ago

Dems have no part to play here. They're yet another failed institution and it's just lazy to expect anyone to ride to the rescue.

The people need to rise up and start fixing problems ourselves.

leahaviv.bsky.social•46 days ago

Dems didn’t bring actual antisemitism legislation to the senate floor so I wouldn’t assume.

We are a political foot ball or wedge currently. I would like to see dems shore up the antisemitism issue via joint, dedicated Islamophobia/antisemitism initiatives because the political liability is real.

vtuberyubel.bsky.social•46 days ago

The dems are spineless so I don’t expect them to do anything

nerd7132.bsky.social•46 days ago

Democrats are just full on the enemy team at this point. Republicans In Blue

vtuberyubel.bsky.social•46 days ago

CORRECT (except for Rashida Tlaib)

leahaviv.bsky.social•46 days ago

Action directly through faith communities will probably be best.

There is a loss of expertise post Oct 7 Jewish side though I think. Muslims may need to lead here due to having more hands. Too many interfaith Jews I know of were personally impacted by Oct 7 targeting. Recovery will be years.

leahaviv.bsky.social•46 days ago

Interfaith as in professionals active in interfaith work, not interfaith families