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Going to the moon was awe-inspiring! Flying a helicopter on Mars, mind-blowing!
But apart from the eradication of smallpox, I honestly believe #Wikipedia might be the greatest achievement by human kind!
The collaborative effort of millions of people, spending countless hours to gather, document, fact check, communicate clearly, and discuss amicably all human knowledge, to share it freely for anyone to use any way they want! No money, no fame. Not perfect. But it is the best of us!
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So, given all that, of course the billionaires and the far right is trying to destroy #Wikipedia! They can't memory hole every aspect of history and science they don't like if there's a well sourced, well cited, freely available repository of knowledge out there that people trust.
Reality itself has to bow down at the feet of hierarchical power. That is their final goal. They can not abide people learning any truth not twisted into a tool for their power.
Please watch:
@forteller "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - Nineteen Eighty-Four
It's no coincidence they attack anything oriented towards truth in any form. They need to control what people think and believe.
I hate that so many seem to have taken that story as a manual rather than a warning.
What can you do in the face of overwhelming power, seemingly unstoppable in their thirst to crush reality itself to feed their insatiable egos and hate for the "other"?
Go to #Wikipedia. Find an article about something you know something about. Look trough it, find something that's wrong or unclear or missing. Heck, find a typo!
Then click on that Edit button – which is there on every single article, for all humans to use – and make a change! Literally!
And communicate your trust in Wikipedia
I dunno, but I feel like #Wikipedia should sell merch with their logo and just the text "make a change"
@forteller good idea! The closest thing they have now seems to be the edit shirt https://store.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-edit-shirt
@ainali I like it. But it doesn't have the same connotations, you know… :)
Anyway, I had no idea they sell so much cool merch! Thanks for the link!
@forteller they could also combine the "Wikipedia editor" they have with a second message "Be the change" :)
@forteller I did a lot of editing when I was young and had the time. Little of it remains now, I guess. Looking back on especially old discussion pages tells me that I have learned a thing or two since. I think collaborating in that way made me into a better person in the end.
I would like to get involved somehow. Maybe this is how?
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