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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 05:26:43 JST Joe Ortiz

   • Molly White

   The US government is officially trying to kill #Wikipedia and the #Wikimedia Foundation.

   https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat

   https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/114401925877682357

   It really stems from this piece from way back in January when that world's richest person's (you know who) major first attack on Christmas Eve last year. (h/t to @molly0xfff):

   https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/

   Today is a good day as ever to donate in the meantime:

   https://donate.wikimedia.org

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 05:31:06 JST Joe Ortiz

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     I also highly recommend you download a hard copy of the entire #Wikipedia database and store it into a external hard drive or a NAS in the event of a worst case scenario (which could very well happen).

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

     #download #data