From: Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
To: Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp>
Cc: <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:57:35 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orletqg1uo.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2022.06.17.0637.05182@afu.wta.att.ne.jp> (Akira Urushibata's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:46:42 +0900 (added by postmaster@msrg2011.rgserv.att.ne.jp)")
On Jun 16, 2022, Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote:
> Occasionally I take a look at the Wikipedia article on the "Linux"
> operating system. It is constantly edited. At times I have seen
> efforts to eradicate or minimize the role of GNU.
*nod*. I've witnessed several such efforts, from an editor who denied
and suppressed references to blobs in Linux, even after being given hard
evidence of it, to various efforts to reject writings that referred to
GNU/Linux as such (rather than just Linux), and to remove wikipedia
entries for 100% free distros. It's definitely not neutral ground.
> Wikipedia may have helped thwart Russian President Putin's efforts to
> rewrite history
while helping others rewrite history to their liking :-/
But then, despite all of its failings, Wikipedia, like democracy, sucks,
though they suck less than the known alternatives.
--
Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/
Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-16 21:46 Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct Akira Urushibata
2022-06-17 22:36 ` Greg Farough
2022-06-18 1:17 ` Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2022-06-18 6:06 ` J Leslie Turriff
2022-07-18 6:44 ` Ade Malsasa Akbar
2022-06-18 7:12 ` Lars Noodén
2022-06-21 2:57 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2022-06-21 23:07 ` J.B. Nicholson
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