Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original

https://www.404media.co/russia-clones-wikipedia-censors-it-bans-original/

22 Comments

  1. Open_Mortgage_4645 on

    How do you not laugh in Russia’s face following such a clownish move? How have the Russian people not set fire to the Kremlin?

  2. BeowulfsGhost on

    “Welcome to Vladipedia, please consider donating to the murder of Ukrainian children”

  3. BalticRussian on

    According to a blog. Meanwhile, everyone in Russia is able to access it just fine. I miss the old days when social media users interrogated the facts beyond the headline. Back in the day, articles like this stood no chance on Digg.com. I remember when people were extremely critical of any post, it felt like a Wikipedia of its own. It’s deminse with V4 caused a migration to Reddit, which back then was also tough on facts, somewhere down the line, it lost that and just seems to be full of children just reading headlines.

  4. And then they will complain that it isn’t updated anymore. Want that just one guy who wrote 80% of all articles?

  5. Russia – Vladipedia: The country was established by the one and only God 6.5 billion years ago. Its borders are wherever Russia wants it to be. Population number is irrelevant. Everyone is a Slav(e).

  6. *denounces and villifies the “evil west”

    *Also steals and uses the “evil west” information and technology.

  7. Apparently, if you look up “war”, it pings your location to the closest FSB office and you get charged with treason and discrediting the armed forces.

  8. It’s accessible. And the project itself is a failure at current point. It is edited by some paid parties – mostly articles that compromise Russian propaganda.

  9. It’s very hard to keep data in sync if it’s not automatic. By forking Wikipedia, Putin is asking potential contributors to believe that this will be maintained for years to come. That sounds not credible, so I suspect the fork will receive few contributions and be useful mainly as a static, vetted image of what’s there now. However, in a year or so, it will be increasingly out-of-date.