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He generally shows most of the signs of the misinformation accounts:

  • Wants to repeatedly tell basically the same narrative and nothing else
  • Narrative is fundamentally false
  • Not interested in any kind of conversation or in learning that what he’s posting is backwards from the values he claims to profess

I also suspect that it’s not a coincidence that this is happening just as the Elon Musks of the world are ramping up attacks on Wikipedia, specially because it is a force for truth in the world that’s less corruptible than a lot of the others, and tends to fight back legally if someone tries to interfere with the free speech or safety of its editors.

Anyway, YSK. I reported him as misinformation, but who knows if that will lead to any result.

Edit: Number of people real salty that I’m talking about this: Lots

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)

DOWNLOAD A COPY OF WIKIPEDIA NOW. RIGHT NOW. DO NOT WAIT.

WIKIPEDIA WILL BE RUINED IN (just guessing) THREE MONTHS (I hope I’m wrong)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Or even better, donate to wikipedia. I know I just did.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do download a copy of Wikipedia but give them some credit. This isn’t the first nor last attack on information freedom (see internet archive)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

NO NO CREDIT GIVEN MUST SHOUT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

lol, no it won’t….

[–] M600 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can I get a TLDR. I'm on the page about downloading it, but there are so many files to download which makes me think I am looking at the wrong stuff.

[–] ChogChog 11 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia is pretty large now, even for text only versions. So the most recommended option to download/read an offline version is by using “Kiwix”.

Kiwix is a reader designed to open and operate archived websites like Wikipedia that are stored in a .zim (think z-file compression but for websites).

Kiwix is open sourced and readers can be installed on your pc, phones, self-hosted as a website, etc.

You can check out their Kiwix library for a list of curated zim’s beyond Wikipedia that are updated on a schedule

You can also use their zimit tool to archive websites on your own as well.

It took a day for me to grasp all these concepts since they were designed mostly for Wikipedia archival purposes but it’s amazing how robust the tools and community are.

[–] MutilationWave 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I consider myself pretty savvy but I'm also at a loss. I thought and still think you can download all the text but there are so many readers there, different file types. When I finally got to some raw data it was from 2008.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If you want to use Kiwix as posted by @[email protected] above, you can find the data here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/

The latest (January 2024) total dump for Wikipedia (English) is: wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim

...but there's other languages and sizes available as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"the page"? Do you mean kiwix?