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> Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run. I’m seeing that playing out with a Russian Wikipedia
by notpushkin 1y ago
> Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run.
I’m seeing that playing out with a Russian Wikipedia (forked as Ruwiki and heavily edited to be in line with Kremlin propaganda), and I don’t like it one bit. There’s not much you can do as it’s free/open content, but it still sucks.
- wiml 1y agoReminds me of Conservapedia, which was a Wikipedia fork with everything that the US religious right disliked removed.
- wat10000 1y agoPresent tense; it’s still around. Near the top of their list of popular articles is “Counterexamples to Relativity” which gives a good flavor of what it’s all about.