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Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original (www.404media.co)

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What the hell?

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What the hell?

The only surprise in this news is that the "more like this" sidebar is filled with porn for some reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-04-25/In_the_media Wikipedia's own coverage, released 4 days ago. The repetition of the Orwellian detail makes me think both were inspired by Novaya Gazeta's coverage from the 11th.

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Dickipedia.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

NotHotDog

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

While wikipedia is decent at giving overviews on some scientific and technical topics, but when there is a topic about something that is historical and/or any way politically or monetarily relevant there will be an edit war to change it to suit one interest groups wishes or anothers. It really is a cesspool of psyops, misinformation and articles to be basically corporate PR at certain topics, and that is just because google usually gives wikipedia articles as first or second result on any given subject and it's a really cost effective way to propagandize people and doing it is really low cost. Now Russia just monopolizes the propaganda inside their own borders.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

Wikis were invented as a way, and are a good solution when the goal is, to crowdsource objective facts about the world.

The great thing about a wiki is that as long as one person once added any given fact, it is in the wiki.

On all contentious issues, by definition there are not too few people wanting to write about them, but instead there are too many, so this is why wikis are just not a suitable mechanism for writing about anything contentious: they're a solution to a nonexistent problem and there is no rational reason why truth about any given issue should be determined by "who has managed to edit the page last".

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Back in my day it was just boob edits.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

The gaslighting is crazy

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