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Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias against Israel and Ukraine (eu.usatoday.com)

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In the letter, Comer and Mace referenced a report from the Anti-Defamation League, in which they allege that Wikipedia coordinated a campaign to manipulate entries related to the War in Gaza, which they allege advanced “antisemitic and anti-Israel information.”

"As our research showed earlier this year, antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia are a significant problem. We welcome the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opening an investigation into this issue and thank Rep. James Comer for his leadership effort to address this hate," in a statement released by ADL on Wednesday, Aug. 27.

The lawmakers also referenced a report from the think tank, Atlantic Council, which alleged that pro-Russia actors used Wikipedia to push pro-Kremlin messaging on its platform.

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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

Bruh how is NATOpedia not biased enough for the spooks anymore

[–] karashta@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here's a reminder that you can download all of Wikipedia in about 120GB

Kiwix is the offline browser I use and the site has a ton of wikis..

I grabbed Wikipedia right after the Nazis took power so I could have a clean snapshot.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Care to share where a clean snapshot might be found now?

[–] gmgmgm@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia has their own guide for this!

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think downloading one today is fine as well. It's possible that it's going byo get worse in the future, but it's not like Wikipedia was perfectly "clean" and without its flaws/bias before January 2025. Wikimedia looks like they're going to offer so e nominal resistance to whatever tf this is, but we will see how it plays out.

Question (that I'm not going to look up), but does wiki have a way to download everything with the change history? Cause in that case you could have an offline copy that you could roll back as far as you'd like.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

From the linked guide:

All revisions, all pages: These files expand to multiple terabytes of text. Please only download these if you know you can cope with this quantity of data. Go to Latest Dumps and look out for all the files that have 'pages-meta-history' in their name.