The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
At least it’s easier to see who the real enemy is.
Does it really matter at this point? They haven’t been hiding it at all.
We’re already seeing it on such mundane pages as that for the Gulf of Mexico, which has MAGAs complaining on the Talk page as though their clown show of a country were the only one on earth and should get to unilaterally name international bodies of water.
I mean, the gulf thing is really not a big issue. It’s pretty common for different countries to have different names for the same bodies of water. This is like the least nefarious thing he’s done.
It’s common? Can you name a single other example where a head of state personally made the decision despite most of the population disagreeing and not having asked for it in the first place?
In any case that doesn’t give that country of buffoons permission to change the name for everybody else. Wikipedia belongs to everyone.
Well…one leader did… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_changing_of_place_names_in_East_Prussia
Perhaps, but very indicative of the direction his actions are taking, and it works well to whip up bottom-dweller level nationalism.
It might be merely the thin end of the wedge, but it should be resisted along with every other action baby hands dreams up while being sprayed down with lead paint every morning.
Imagine regularly getting violent threats just for being a volunteer on a free website!
Oh wait, I don’t have to.
Sigh.
A boring dystopia.
Probably should consider moving the foundation to the EU or at least somewhere not so hostile to fact based information services.
There’s a huge chunk of the internet that needs to learn a lesson and understand that being hosted in the USA isn’t a good idea.
Same with people working on things that are illegal from a copyright perspective (video games remakes for example). Post from behind a VPN using a nickname, share via torrent or host somewhere where they don’t care about US copyright laws… People don’t learn and get a C&D letter they could have dodged…
For some reason I thought it’s based in the UK, but apparently not.
