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It's time to move Wikipedia from the US to a safer haven

You can just download it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Downloading Wikipedia is usually a first step for people getting involved in prepping or data-hoarding communities, because it's so much easier than most other websites, and the utility you get from it is pretty large. And the downloads, while fairly large, will still fit on a typical home computer. There are probably tens of thousands of copies, if not more, floating around.

Moving Wikipedia elsewhere will likely have to happen. Thought, the US may respond by blocking Wikipedia content as many regimes in the past have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia

Not to give any ideas, but a likely outcome is a US-based fork that has the offending bias removed, with a "ministry of truth"-y name.

There is already https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

This is exactly what Russia did, but said fork is not particularly popular AFAIK.

Real… luckily they can just hop the border into Vancouver - not as safe as Europe or east Asia, but certainly an easier ask.

I wonder if they have any dedicated compute stateside, tho…

> "not as safe as Europe"

French spooks once detained a randomly-chosen Wikipedia admin and coerced them into using their credentials to delete an article (about French spooks),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503354 ("French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article (wikimedia.fr)" (2013)—191 comments)

I wouldn't put it past the Canadian government to do the same thing. Other Anglosphere governments already have, see Australia and UK.

> I wonder if they have any dedicated compute stateside, tho…

Wikipedia has data centers in Virginia, texas and san francisco. (They also have some in other countries)

Sorry for the dismissive tone, but this is a silly reactionary take. It's noise and the hot air is meant to serve as a distraction. Your doomerism isn't helpful.

Blatant, open, unabashed authoritarianism is just “noise”…?

What red line are you waiting for before acknowledging that we’re in a dangerous situation (aka headed towards doom)?

I'm just as concerned about all this as you are. I guess I just have a bit of faith left in that reason will prevail. I'm cranky but also a perennial optimist.

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