The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
We’re already seeing it on such mundane pages as that for the Gulf of Mexico, which has MAGAs complaining on the Talk page as though their clown show of a country were the only one on earth and should get to unilaterally name international bodies of water.
I mean, the gulf thing is really not a big issue. It’s pretty common for different countries to have different names for the same bodies of water. This is like the least nefarious thing he’s done.
It’s common? Can you name a single other example where a head of state personally made the decision despite most of the population disagreeing and not having asked for it in the first place?
In any case that doesn’t give that country of buffoons permission to change the name for everybody else. Wikipedia belongs to everyone.
Well…one leader did… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_changing_of_place_names_in_East_Prussia
Perhaps, but very indicative of the direction his actions are taking, and it works well to whip up bottom-dweller level nationalism.
It might be merely the thin end of the wedge, but it should be resisted along with every other action baby hands dreams up while being sprayed down with lead paint every morning.