What the hell?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    Doesn’t seem to be banned by my ISP.

    Anyway, Russian Wikipedia clones to steal budget money are old news.

    There even is such a meme as “encyclong”, that’s what the Wikipedia article for vikings turned into after one such cloning with replacing wiki- (no difference between V and W in Russian) with encyclo- .

    • otogiri46@programming.devOP
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      Really? Good to hear it’s just an ineffective censorship attempt then.

      There even is such a meme as “encyclong”, that’s what the Wikipedia article for vikings turned into after one such cloning with replacing wiki- (no difference between V and W in Russian) with encyclo- .

      Damn that’s funny.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think there was an attempt, “bans original” is a hallucination by the author.

  • Axiochus@lemmy.world
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    Huh? Wikipedia isn’t banned in Russia yet. Though I do expect them to take steps towards it.

    • otogiri46@programming.devOP
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      Yeah. Someone else corrected that part earlier. It’s not a good headline, but I didn’t want to change it.

        • otogiri46@programming.devOP
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          It’s not in the rules of the community but some places are not okay with changing headlines. So I left it how it was.

          • Cris@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Not the person you replied to- you could consider adding a correction or [sic] or something while still including the original headline unedited

            Hope you have a good day :)

            • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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              6 months ago

              You could also replace the text body of the post with an explanation. It currently just says “what the hell?” which isn’t helpful

    • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      Nope. The vandalism is by the troll farms and a weapon of the quiet information war waging against reality.

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          The 2021 Capitol protests also known as the J6 FBI false flag attack on the U.S. Capitol or Fedsurrection consisted of a diverse group of American patriots of different races, backgrounds, and cultures protesting the electoral college certification of the fraudulent 2020 presidential election who were entrapped by the FBI on January 6, 2021.

          I just threw up a little just visiting for 5 seconds.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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          Very much so. Last I heard the userbase was composed of roughly half truly sincere ultra-conservative nut and half parody accounts attempting to portray ultra-conservative views too extreme and nutty for the sincere ultra-conservatives, and nobody could tell who was what.

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          6 months ago

          Last I knew they called the Russia-Ukraine war the “NATO War in Ukraine” and claimed Russia killed over 10,000 “NATO mercenaries” mostly from Germany.

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Of course, all you need to do is run a differential between Wikipedia and this thing to find exactly what the government is trying to censor. Idiots.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That would be a cool project. You’d basically see everything the Russian regime doesn’t want you to see, i.e. all the interesting bits.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      Russian Wikipedians will be quick to demand reliable sources for any text copied over. And they’ll probably have bots to check if anything is copied over without attribution. In the end it’ll probably be a trickle of usable information, like all the other wikis.

      The new site just won’t keep up and degrade quickly, even by their own standards.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      6 months ago

      Why do you think that Russia would care to include the edits from the original Wikipedia ?

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia.

    But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is.

    Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.

    That’s all not to say it isn’t a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game’s not lost.

    Edit: Thank you OP for striving for the best accuracy!

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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        I guess they did it only locally. Though it doesn’t exactly fit the definition even that way. And why would it be ironic?

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          'Cos that tactic is Microsoft™.

          Then again the Russian Federation is a fascist state run by oligarchs, so not that much different from the fascist state run by billionaire CEOs that the US is…

          • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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            Seriously? Ehh…

            Of course Russia is facist though, what else would it be? Maybe you got it wrong with a historic non existing failed country created by absolute psychopaths?

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    Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack-of-citation garbage that is Baidu Baike https://baike.baidu.com/ .

    The “sorting algorithm” article: https://baike.baidu.com/item/排序算法/5399605 only have 3 citations: none of which are the original papers and none of which have any links. I tried searching these “citations” and found absolutely nothing…

    Similarly, the article for “Amsterdam” contains almost no citation beyond the first paragraph https://baike.baidu.com/item/阿姆斯特丹/814

    Just imagine how bad it would be for more obscure concepts.

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    So, now they are slowly (or immediately and forever, I don’t know the time span) injecting propaganda into their clone of wikipedia and they are simultaneously thus admitting they are doing it. (to further brainwash the russian citizens)

    So lettme repeat: FUCK PUTIN, and stuff your rubber clones in your ass. (which there are many of)

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      Issue reviewed and closed by WorldProgrammer73993224499 with comment: “Rewrite too expensive and complex, closing.”

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
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      Humans are selfish by definition (genes). It would be like rewinding a film and starting over.

      The main problem lies within humans’ tendency to put themselves (their family/tribe/culture/etc.) before others’. I know there are fantastic people who don’t, but in the grand scheme of things, humanity will always be too selfish in general. I’d bet that will be our bane (we’re kind of slowly killing ourselves with it already).

      • tabular@lemmy.world
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        But they wanted to avoid being stupid. We need intelligent design (no not that intelligent design, actual intelligence).

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      I wonder if you’re capable of experiencing the irony of writing that, or are just as stupid as you claim all humans to be. Are you stupid? Do you trust yourself to write things that make sense? Just asking based on your own generalized claim. Unless of course you are a bot, then this comment is a waste of time.