2025 United States boycott - Wikipedia
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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    Hey, Sunshine and anyone reading this! Feel free to ask here if you have any Wikipedia-specific questions. I’m somewhat credentialed and happy to answer.

    • ReannleggeEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      I know Wikipedia is “open,” free, and all that but I wish there was a competitor that did not have it’s office in the US.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 days ago

        It is indeed open. All Wikipedia content is available under both CC BY-SA 4.0 and the GFDL and can therefore be used effectively however and wherever you like. Nearly all of its articles are freely editable by anyone anywhere provided they haven’t previously been blocked or that the article isn’t protected. Its entire history short of a few minor exceptions (pre-November 2001-ish, extreme vandalism/defamation, obvious copyright infringement, and deleted articles) is publicly available. Wikipedia by its nature is more open than most FOSS projects in the sense that few circumstances even exist where you’d need to ask a regular contributor to publish a change to the main branch on your behalf.

        I don’t understand why you use scare quotes around “open” here.

        • ReannleggeEnglish
          6·
          7 days ago

          Fair point, I have read that stuff to I was interested in it when this whole thing kicked off. I am unsure as to why I quoted open, thank you for taking the time to point it out to me.

          At one point in time I was even thinking of doing the whole download the English Wikipedia, and keeping it up to date for when the US revolution starts. That could be any day now I guess if I am going to do that I think I probably should soon.

            • ReannleggeEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              Yes I would just have to decide which pi I was going to store it on and then set up the corn jobs to do all the up dating, I after some frustration I got my self hosted Nextcloud back running on my pi. Next I need to either get wireguard working again for whatever reason it kicked out on me, then I will want to get my backup pihole running. But then again the world is going to fall into chaos fairly soon like maybe this weekend?