A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 1y
Turnabout is fair play. I bet the wikipedia editors can "identify and target" the Heritage Foundation members a lot more efficiently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation#Notable_board_of_trustees_members
Edit: I should have known the Mercers were involved.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Of course it's Mercer. He's been skimming money from the thief's guild as well.
frunch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
All the way back to the 2016 elections with Cambridge Analytica. Plus his offspring is equally vile. Some families are just cancer in human form, and the Mercers are a shining example
Absaroka@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Feels like something Princeton students should dig into.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Here, I'll help get the ball rolling:
No mention of the Heritage Foundation until the end:
Source-Wikipedia
He is quite the gem. /s
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
He's probably his own private parking spot.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 1y
Remember to torrent a copy of Wikipedia today!
Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
You can simply download the available work with the Kiwix Reader. The whole thing without pictures is 50gb. Barely anything, nowadays!
Zacryon@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
How much is it with pictures?
Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Bout 100gb. Them pictures is big
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And don't do what I did: assume that the "pictures" version was just pictures. I wound up downloading both the ~102 gb version AND the ~53 gb version.
Oh well, at least I can seed both.
Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah haha I knew that (whew, thanks for saving me, pal!)
Damionsipher@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Are there projects to shift the organization/database outside of the US?
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
There are semi-independent organizations for (almost) every Wikipedia language, called Wikimedia Foundation Chapters. I'm sure it wouldn't be too big of a problem to also move the English Wiki to some other English-speaking country.
The database move is fairly trivial. The entire English Wikipedia, including associated media, fits on an SD card in my phone (with room to spare). If we trust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia, the entire Wikipedia database (including edit history, talks, etc) is 10TB, which can fit on a single M.2 SSD in someone's pocket. Moving Wikimedia (430 TB) would require a purse of SSDs.
If push comes to shove, I'm sure this in particular wouldn't be a problem.
vertis@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
I nominate Australia, but we have to run a script to change all the spelling that's incorrect.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
at least i write 'professionally' (like a big school paper or something) on the wiki, unlike places like lemmy where's it's very much informal. they'd have a rough time tryin to match my wiki contribs to anything else online.
butsbutts@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
i donate monthly! (to wiki)
bokherif@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y