Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
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Ruviki is intended to be a more “trustworthy” source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes the Russian government look bad.

What the hell?

Edit - Quoting @[email protected]

Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia. But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is. Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.

That’s all not to say it isn’t a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game’s not lost.

  • Axiochus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    871·
    8 months ago

    Huh? Wikipedia isn’t banned in Russia yet. Though I do expect them to take steps towards it.

    • otogiri46@programming.devOPEnglish
      337·
      8 months ago

      Yeah. Someone else corrected that part earlier. It’s not a good headline, but I didn’t want to change it.

        • otogiri46@programming.devOPEnglish
          262·
          8 months ago

          It’s not in the rules of the community but some places are not okay with changing headlines. So I left it how it was.

          • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            8 months ago

            Not the person you replied to- you could consider adding a correction or [sic] or something while still including the original headline unedited

            Hope you have a good day :)

            • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              8 months ago

              You could also replace the text body of the post with an explanation. It currently just says “what the hell?” which isn’t helpful

            • otogiri46@programming.devOPEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I ended up adding an edit to the title. It’s probably too late now but I think it should at least help the people that find the post later. I didn’t know we could edit post titles here. I thought it was like reddit.