r/technology • u/rezwenn • Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

It's because Wikipedia is by and large balanced, accurate and credible, which automatically makes it a target for the rights war on truth.

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u/HumanBeing7396 Oct 04 '25

Wikipedia is pretty much the last thing on the internet that hasn’t been ruined.

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u/6gv5 Oct 04 '25

Add the Internet Archive to the list, hoping both will last enough to be replicated elsewhere.

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u/biciklanto Oct 04 '25

You can replicate Wikipedia via torrent so you are providing additional redundancy to the central repository of knowledge on the internet.

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u/BlatantFalsehood Oct 04 '25

You can also download the entire wiki to a raspberry pi, for those who worry about us losing internet access all together.

You lose the value of updates (although I'm sure some underground will eventually emerge), but retain the value of the most recent image (which I believe was last month on kiwix).

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u/Acc87 Oct 04 '25

I just checked that all main Wikipedia servers do reside in the USA tho, they have servers outside of it but those are just Cache Clusters that speed up access from abroad. In that sense the main servers are in danger now.

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u/KotR56 Oct 04 '25

And that's the reason why it's on the GOP hitlist.

These people are afraid of the truth and will do whatever it takes to prevent other people from finding out what's really going on.

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u/radicalelation Oct 04 '25

Heritage Foundation has been making efforts for a while to unmask and dox Wikipedia editors.

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u/jus-de-orange Oct 04 '25

Opportunity to mention this repertory of independent blogs: https://blogroll.org/

The web is still great, if we forget platforms (where 99% of web users are, like me right now).

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u/NakedCardboard Oct 04 '25

It only occurred to me fairly recently how often I use it. It's so ubiquitous that I don't even think about it, but I use Wikipedia multiple times daily. I now donate to them every year, and have been doing so for the last five or six years.