The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

  • @earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    -12•3 months ago

    I mean, the gulf thing is really not a big issue. It’s pretty common for different countries to have different names for the same bodies of water. This is like the least nefarious thing he’s done.

    • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
      18•3 months ago

      It’s common? Can you name a single other example where a head of state personally made the decision despite most of the population disagreeing and not having asked for it in the first place?

      In any case that doesn’t give that country of buffoons permission to change the name for everybody else. Wikipedia belongs to everyone.

    • @Fluke@lemm.ee
      9•3 months ago

      Perhaps, but very indicative of the direction his actions are taking, and it works well to whip up bottom-dweller level nationalism.

      It might be merely the thin end of the wedge, but it should be resisted along with every other action baby hands dreams up while being sprayed down with lead paint every morning.