A Dark Web Version of Wikipedia
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Yeah nope. He says it took a half hour to set up, that means it's not using a wiki dump, but fetching it live. That means the traffic is going from his server to wikimedia's servers, same as if you used tor to visit Wikipedia directly.
If wikimedia set this up themselves, it could be true, but this clearly isn't and can't terminate without touching clearnet.
Never trust the news, even when they cite sources and sound like they know what they're talking about.
Besides that, what's the advantage of having Wikipedia as an onion vs visiting the site from Tor over HTTPS?
Wouldn't that mean you're just adding this onion proxy to your circle of trust and hoping they aren't giving you altered articles or logging accessed articles? How is that better than accessing Wikipedia directly (via Tor and HTTPS)?
This is also not blocked in Turkey!
It would really be nice if there was a pager for it. As it is, the easiest way to use this is to enable logging on your terminal, look up your article, and scroll scroll scroll. Some of these articles are huge.
As you say, hopefully Wikimedia will take note and implement a darknet version themselves.
You want to help people living in Syria? How about you give them some of your money. A little bit of your own excess will go a lot farther than these half-baked technical “solutions”.
Wikipedia has very strong user privacy policies.