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Sunshine (she/her) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 3 months ago

Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors

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Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors

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Sunshine (she/her) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 3 months ago
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  • @pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    42•3 months ago

    What does the heritage foundation have against Wikipedia?

    • Sunshine (she/her)OP
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      75•3 months ago

      They don’t like them publishing facts:

      https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        18•3 months ago

        The best counter to bias is in an openly edited project is contributing corrected information with high quality sources. So instead of spending their time doxxing wikipedia editors, how about actually contributing quality data?

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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          7•3 months ago

          What high quality data? They have nothing, that’s why they are doing this bullshit.

        • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Wikipedia has been doxing their own editors for decades. Heritage is just using the public data. They’re still fash but wikipedia isn’t much better.

          • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            4•3 months ago

            Sure. I absolutely hate that “anonymous” edits aren’t actually anonymous, and you basically need a user account to not get insta-reverted. It would be pretty cool if they had a trust system where untrusted edits go to an approval queue or something and you gradually build up trust by not doing graffiti everywhere.

            • @sureok@lemmy.sdf.org
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              4•3 months ago

              How would that work without accounts?

              I’d like to make anonymous edits to WP and personally resent their lack of accommodation of that. But I don’t have a very solid proposal as to how it could be done. So must forgive them.

              • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                2•3 months ago

                You’d need some kind of account system, but you could probably get away with just signing your edits. If the same key is used to sign an edit, then it can be considered the same “user” even if there’s no persistent account associated w/ it. You’d need to register a public key, but that’s about it.

      • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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        3•3 months ago

        That’s disingenuous. They’re far from the only ones that don’t like how Wikipedia works, with good reason.

        • Guy Ingonito
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          6•3 months ago

          Yeah Elon Musk and other rich famous people also hate it!

          • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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            1•3 months ago

            Hey look, you can be disingenuous too! Congratulations.

            • Guy Ingonito
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              2•3 months ago

    • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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      11•3 months ago

      'It’s not close’ - Israel committing genocide concludes Wikipedia ending editorial debate

    • @Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
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      10•3 months ago

      It prints the truth more often than not.

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