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Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles?(www.thewikipedian.net)

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infeeeee@lemm.ee
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You can edit wikipedia fully privately, if you live in a similar jurisdiction. There are some limitations on Tor, but from these articles it sounds like it’s possible to work it around:

It’s not super easy, but it doesn’t sound like some insurmountable obstacle.

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interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works
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Good luck getting an edit to stick when you’re doing it privately on a high traffic or political page. Wikipedia is known to have an entrenched little clique that works hard at gatekeeping.

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You can’t do it on clearnet without some reputation either. I meant that you can register anonymously, than work yourself up to get some reputation and rights, than you can edit your favorite political post. I think the 2 things are orthogonal.

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