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Souvenons-nous que l' #ArabieSaoudite de #MBS emprisonne des rédacteurs bénévoles de #Wikipedia (et fait bien pire) : Ziyad al-Sofiani a fait 5 ans de prison et Oussama Khalid purge sa peine de 32 ans (📸 Fjmustak CC-BY-SA-4.0).
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon #Musk ’s Grokipedia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist
> World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from #Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
Prise en flagrant délit de caviardage d'article sur #Wikipédia, une personne, propriétaire d'un manoir, se plaint de "votre page wikipedia qui indique de mauvaises informations de mon domaine et de mon habitation privée de plus avec une adresse erronée et informations erronées"...
L'article en question concerne un manoir homonyme du sien. 
@david Oh god, THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT 😵💫 Just read his #Wikipedia page. 💀
Souvenons-nous que l' #ArabieSaoudite de #MBS emprisonne des rédacteurs bénévoles de #Wikipedia (et fait bien pire) : Ziyad al-Sofiani a fait 5 ans de prison et Oussama Khalid purge sa peine de 32 ans (📸 Fjmustak CC-BY-SA-4.0).
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Please donate to Wikipedia. As we all know, it is under threat (AI overviews, Musk attacks). In my opinion it's one of the greatest achievements of the democratic Internet and global human collaboration.
I donate a small amount every year but I've increased it this year.
#Wikipedia #openinternet #openeducation #academia #academicchatter
I tried my hand at a desktop background. What do you think?
Check it out! @forgejo has a great presence on #Wikipedia now:
This is pretty neat: a list of @wikipedia "firsts" and records, including:
- first edit made from outer space
- longest article revision ever
- largest full typed number with an article
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon #Musk ’s Grokipedia
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist
> World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from #Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
Check it out! @forgejo has a great presence on #Wikipedia now:
I tried my hand at a desktop background. What do you think?
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:
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!
…
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"
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:
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
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!
…
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:
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!
…
One of the best pieces I've read in awhile. Emily Bressler in @mcsweeneys.net writes "I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person":
That was a great piece, thanks for sharing @markhurst.
This one by Derrick Fenner is pretty on the money; "Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology";
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
![A 16:9 image with a white background. In the middle is the Wikipedia logo, under it is the text "Make a change" and, smaller, "[ edit ]"](https://cdn.masto.host/tutoteketno/media_attachments/files/115/562/098/029/683/731/original/34d8c01a44e7026f.png)
