Interesting read but got to call out one part that made me think this reporter is at least partially nonsense:
Mburugu did not respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday evening.
This article was published on Thursday. Late Wednesday night is most likely midnight or later in Kenya. Essentially the author gave zero time to reply.
That's doesn't mean that the story isn't credible though. Here's a PDF to the court document.
yeah but its still a dick move by the publisher.
I didn't say that's what it meant.
Still raises a lot of eyebrows.
This article also confirms for me that it is pointless to donate to Wikipedia. Most of these donations go to non-Wikipedia activities.
I do love the Wikipedia software though. Run multiple instances.
Why is your username Wikipedia sucks lol?
I am wary of it. This and the propaganda against Bernie lately makes me think this is more fuckery to get the left to turn on things it likes. Don’t forget Trump and his ilk recently threatened Wikipedia because it was allowing information they don’t like and for DEI.
And digging deep into the accounts history has proven my point
Group of far right extremists bent on undermining Wikipedia because it tells the truth about history.
Is that who OP is? lmao!
Who else hates Wikipedia? Seriously.
Oh yeah I see they're banned a lot!
Why is your username Wikipedia sucks lol?
Because this is a multiple-used shared identity by a number of whistleblowers who wants to protect their identity. The lawsuit basically vindicates what we're trying to warn people about over the past few months.
I am wary of it. This and the propaganda against Bernie lately makes me think this is more fuckery to get the left to turn on things it likes. Don’t forget Trump and his ilk recently threatened Wikipedia because it was allowing information they don’t like and for DEI.
How do I know you’re not just another troll farm vegetable?
Edit: and digging deep into the accounts history has proven my point.
Just to be clear, we're not against the general notion of "free knowledge movement". Rather we'd love it if there are viable competitors to Wikipedia.
Edit: You can always go to dumps.wikimedia.org to download a copy of Wikipedia encyclopedic articles and start a fork from there.
Who's we?
OP is on a crusade against Wikipedia.
Why are you posting this everywhere you possibly can?
Because that’s an old habit which is carried over from Reddit.
Unfortunately, this administration isn't going to be much help for her. Feels like this is going to be an uphill battle.
Either way there should be competitors to Wikipedia. One of the promising projects is ibis.wiki but so far there's no function to integrate Wiki markup yet.
Why is that important? Wikipedia is a common good, can't we just fix the problems by working together?
It's impractical and unlikely, bordering on impossible. Deletionists have driven a lot of productive contributors out of the projects through shady tactics like "wikilawyering" and gaming the system. You can look at this essay by Gwern to see what I'm talking about.
Thanks, interesting read!
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