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Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 years ago by otogiri46@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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What the hell?

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[-] otogiri46@programming.dev 44 points 2 years ago

Really? Good to know it's ineffective censorship then.

There even is such a meme as "encyclong", that's what the Wikipedia article for vikings turned into after one such cloning with replacing wiki- (no difference between V and W in Russian) with encyclo- .

Damn that's funny.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

I don't think there was an attempt, "bans original" is a hallucination by the author.

[-] otogiri46@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reading the article it sounds like they're trying

Real Russian Wikipedia editors used to refer to the real Wikipedia as Ruwiki; the new one is called Ruviki, has “ruwiki” in its url

Or at least this part does.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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