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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldBanned from community to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?

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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldBanned from community to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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At a time of rising authoritarianism, the Wikimedia Foundation faces a choice it may celebrate—or regret—forever
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    Update: They’ve already “sold out” the editors.

    https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/does-wikipedia-protect-your-privacy/

    Anyone can take a look at what the Wikipedia editors themselves are saying about the matter.

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:2024_open_letter_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI_vs._WMF_Delhi_court

    The admins from India have only been accused of defamation. Now that the court has their identities, the actual statements will be examined to see if they do actually contain defamation. So anyone can go on a fishing expedition to get someone’s identity, and then say ‘oops, no laws were broken after all’, and now that we know who you are, it would be a shame if someone fell out of a window or something. And of course whatever is in the “sealed” document is now out, India is one of the biggest places for bribery there is. They are also saying the documents will be unsealed at the end of the court case, so it might be cheaper to just wait until they are published.

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