The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.
What a bunch of complete dipshits. That being said, there are ways to request yourself to be allowed to use a VPN when editing if these fascist threats intimidate you.
You could also use split tunneling on your VPN and only whitelist wikipedia
I put on a robe and a
wizardred hat. I gotchu wikiEdit: I also went to donate again. Let’s hope this causes a storm for these assholes. Streisand effect kinda thing, wiki is probably humanity’s single greatest altruistic/collective achievement.
So how do these idiots plan to solve the fact that many editors are not in fact based in the US. Just move edition these articles to any other country?
The Heritage Foundation doesn’t care if the people they dox are Americans or not. They care not for borders when it gets in the way of their agenda.
Well. I think they can dox someone editing out of Pajala in Sweden, Drenas in Kosovo, Bifuka in Japan or Bella Cola in Canada and it will mean fuck all. Perhaps Cletus in Bumfuck North Carolina will seethe but i will mean nothing
Maybe just dox Heritage Foundation members right back …
You can just go to their website. They aren’t hiding.
But they’re also the friends and scions of the mega-wealthy, put in these positions specifically to fuck with the lower classes. If they’re feeling a bit of impunity right now, you can hardly blame them.
I would think Luigi Mangione and what he represents might make them nervous.
I think what he did was exciting. But what he represents?
He took the School Shooter mentality to Wall Street.
What I meant is that he represents a physically dangerous reaction to the kind of oppressive policies they and their ilk support. Right or wrong, people are losing patience with the billionaires and their lickspittles. Maybe the Heritage Foundation with their culture war BS won’t be so much of a target, but the economic interests they represent are obviously no longer able to imagine that they can get away with their thievery without some possibility of a violent reaction.
It’s not school children ruining our lives, so maybe I’ll just shrug then offer thoughts and prayers if it starts happening regularly.
It’s not school children ruining our lives
It isn’t a single fungible CEOs, either. The problem is systemic, not individualistic.
Shooting a bunch of Sandy Hook middle schoolers is definitely more horrifying. But the consequences of the action are more of the same.
More cops, more surveillance, more conspiracy theories, more terror.
if it starts happening regularly
It will never happen regularly enough to undermine the profit motive. Not if it’s just random Lone Wolf vigilantes who binge watched Demolition Ranch videos and got delusions of grandeur.
I don’t think they’re targeting the board or the ex3acs. They’ll target the volunteers who do the actual editing.
what a joke
The entire US conservative establishment is waging a holy crusade against anyone who opposes their Israeli alter ego’s Biblical bloodlettings. You’d think they had no problems to handle at home.
What’s that, evidence of intent to commit terrorism?
Pretty sure just saying it is terrorism.
Try saying youll “doxx and target” UHC C suite and see how that goes. Theyll shove you in the same spot as luigi and name a hotline after you
There’s a Luigi hotline?
I meant the hotline they tried to hurry in for CEOs to call after what Luigi did. Because apparently thats ehat society’a funds should focus on.
So there’s a CEO hotline now?
It’s ideal for when you want to have hot, steamy conversations about all your deepest, darkest desires. Like popping CEOs, overthrowing the oligarchy, and making enough money to afford all your basic human needs.
This could be done in literally like 50 minutes.
But I’m Trump’s America, that’s OK, as long as you’re a Nazi.
Bring out your punchin’ fists. It’s time for a good ol’ fashioned fash bash.
The only good nazi is a dead nazi.
This is the way you would write that headline, lead with the thing people know.
And/or the group that broke the Supreme Court for the next 30+ years.
Sounds like a terrorist threat to me. Unfortunately, our next administration is in bed with the terrorists.
Doxing is a terrorist threat…?
Edit: Downvote me if you want, but I legitimately don’t understand. Is there a joke im missing…?
Yes, it’s a terrorist threat. The point of the threat is to scare Wikipedia editors away from editing the site so they can fill it with their propoganda.
I vaguely remember republicans calling folks terrorists that doxed people for pushing nazi propaganda. Everyone was clowning on them then.
When someone is dangerous, like one who spouts Nazi propoganda, I can see a reason for them to be doxxed. But that’s not the case here. China wants to send the reds after the people who write factual information on Wikipedia pages they don’t like.
If they do that, Wikipedia is going to die because nobody wants to be assaulted for a volunteer gig.
Wikipedia is not pushing nazi propaganda.
Yeah, but that’s not really what im talking about. If doxing is terrorism, then doxing is terrorism. If it isn’t then it isn’t. “Rules for thee but not for me” doesn’t really fly outside of circlejerks.
Left wing murderers aim for the rich, right wing murderers aim for the people. Show me the left wing serial killer aiming for fox news indoctrinated neonazis, and we might feel differently.
When the state executes a convicted murderer, it is not terrorism. If someone murders their spouse out of jealousy, it’s not terrorism. When a serial killer murders 10 people, it is still not usually terrorism.
But when a radical minority group wants to push their political/religious agenda and subdue, oppress the general population by randomly murdering a bunch of them - that IS terrorism.
All of the above are murders, but not all of them are terrorism.
The same is true for every other type of aggression, including doxing. They can be used for many things in many cases. They can be used as a means of oppression, or the oppressed can use them to fight back against oppression. Almost all forms of aggression can be used for the good of society (e.g. by the police against criminals, or by the revolutionists against their oppressors) and of course for bad reasons as well. It all depends on the situation.
So no, doxing does NOT equal terrorism. But it can be used as such.
In case anyone doesn’t know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.
I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge
I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge
Wikipedia isn’t just useful as a repository of information. Its useful because editors are constantly adding and refining the information within. Downloading a singular instance of the site is like owning an Encyclopedia. Diminished utility year-by-year.
True, but it depends who’s going the refining. If they start censoring or changing facts, then the static instance on your hard drive has huge value.
Is that the medialess version or with images?
I think at 120GB that is the with media version. You can also get a medialess version as well. There’s a wiki for how to download wikipedia if you want more info:
Bless
120GB is with photos and not video.
[…] you can find the data here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
The latest (January 2024) total dump for Wikipedia (English) is:
wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
…but there’s other languages and sizes available as well.
Repost of: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12154129
Why thank you!
Is that just the English version or all languages?
Or you can always grab a torrent: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents
Also make sure to seed, preferably on a dedicated machine with an unmetered connection and high bandwidth.
Fortunately they don’t on Wikipedia
Thanks for this PSA, it’s stunning how we used to have encyclopedias in our studies but now no one collects the physical offline copies (which includes an archive of Wikipedia)
no one collects the physical offline copies
I’ve still got my dad’s 1957 encyclopedia in a storage closet somewhere. Another one from 1981 is floating around somewhere. But they take up enormous amounts of space and don’t do a great job of self-updating, nevermind searching or re-indexing.
Can you smell the freedom?
Made a note to donate on payday.
I always give to Wikipedia. I’m poor as shit, but anytime I see that banner they gonna get some money.
NOTHING has been as useful for me in the last 20 years. I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.
I’m a hillbilly who has no education past around the 5th grade. It has been invaluable to me. I wouldn’t be who I am without it. Honestly without the internet as a whole, but especially Wikipedia.
I feel like that thing has now become too large to be considered a “banner.” Its approaching AIDS quilt dimensions.
I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.
The crux is, i have learned it, told myself “Oh yeah, that’s on Wikipedia” and only remember where to find what information. I’m utterly useless without Wikipedia, as many family quiz losses around Christmas turned out… Hell, even sources i use for discussions on the internet i get often from Wikipedia articles, they sometimes link the actual studies…my google foo is pretty good, but some things i’m simply unable to find, except in the Wikipedia source lists…
I’m not donating this time, but only because I just made a big donation in response to Elmo talking shit about Wikipedia.
Thank you to the Heritage Foundation for reminding me to donate to Wikimedia, almost forgot to do it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia going to war.
I remember making some troll edits on it, don’t remember what it was exactly.
Oh gosh, I was not aware of it! Thank you!
A rare kind of encyclopedia that makes you more ignorant and/or angry the more of it you read, regardless of topics.
Oh, there’s actually a lot of them on the net.