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What is going on with Wikipedia and now a bunch of people seem to hate it? What did they do to piss people off? Did they change something? (self.outoftheloop)

submitted 3 days ago by Patnou to c/outoftheloop

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I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.

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[–] serenissi 4 points 2 days ago

I 'hate' wikimedia foundation for one thing: they complied and gave away editors email to court and censored one page upon fraudulent lawsuit by a propaganda news channel in India. Sure if they didn't, they might get threatened to be blocked in India but I really doubt it would've hold long enough given that whole wikipedia can be downloaded fairly easily (or it is trivial to set up a mirror). They probably won't get donations though in that case :/ so probably the move is reasonable?