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Wessel van Rensburg

#Russia has launched "Ruviki," a state-backed encyclopedia mirroring the original Russian Wikipedia. This new platform includes all previous Russian-language Wikipedia content but has been edited to omit information potentially unfavorable to the Russian government.

Interestingly, the Ruviki article about George Orwell’s 1984 entirely omits the Ministry of Truth.

404media.co/russia-clones-wiki

12 comments
Tirapheg

@wildebees The whole thing is the entry for Ministry of Truth.

MegatronicThronBanks

@wildebees Meanwhile all their citizens will be just going around it

Justinas Dūdėnas

@wildebees

I am still depressed about the fact that we universally recognize #wikipedia as a source of knowledge, but at the same time contribute to it so little, especially in academia..

@golgaloth

Michael Halligan

@wildebees Just to think russia didn’t even get half a generation between the fall of the soviet empire and putin’s kleptocracy. He has now raised a generation of russians and will probably be in power for another generation.

morganist

@wildebees sorry, but the whole is pure bullshit. "ruwiki" was founded months ago, nobody has the courage to ban the whole wikipedia still, and no sane russian would prefer the ruwiki over wikipedia. and by the way, it has ai-bullshit built-in. you're all better off go read about this on the wikipedia, which is directly involved, you know.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruwiki

Richard Michael Blaber

@wildebees The Russian Government has its very own Ministry of Truth, which deals in lies, & follows the principle of Dr Joseph Goebbels: "A lie, repeated often enough, becomes the truth."

Aroop Roelofs :verified:

@rmblaber1956
"Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong."

@wildebees

ShredderFeeder

@wildebees we need to go after Russia's cables with a sawzall and just end their connection to the rest of the world. They're not trustworthy.

yoshi, the dinosaur from kde

@wildebees Russian Wikipedia editors nicknamed it Bug-o-Pedia.

Yes, every notable Wikipedia clone (a.k.a. "encyclong", from encyclopedia+viking) has its own nickname.

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