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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldBanned from community to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldBanned from community to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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At a time of rising authoritarianism, the Wikimedia Foundation faces a choice it may celebrate—or regret—forever
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    You can edit wikipedia fully privately, if you live in a similar jurisdiction. There are some limitations on Tor, but from these articles it sounds like it’s possible to work it around:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_users_using_Tor
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies

    It’s not super easy, but it doesn’t sound like some insurmountable obstacle.

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      Good luck getting an edit to stick when you’re doing it privately on a high traffic or political page. Wikipedia is known to have an entrenched little clique that works hard at gatekeeping.

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        You can’t do it on clearnet without some reputation either. I meant that you can register anonymously, than work yourself up to get some reputation and rights, than you can edit your favorite political post. I think the 2 things are orthogonal.

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