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Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Better front-end:

Wikiless

A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

  1. No JavaScript or ads.
  2. All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia.
  3. Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.
  4. Self-hostable. Anyone can setup a private or public instance.^[[1] https://github.com/RealFascinated/wikiless]
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 3 days ago

1: You can easily disable JavaScript and still browse Wikipedia without any issue. This also removes all banners, which I assume is what I mean by "ads", which on Wikipedia only appear from time to time and advertise WMF events and donations.

2 and 3: Your IP address is deleted after 3 months, and there's nothing people can do to you just for reading Wikipedia either. Just visiting Wikipedia's servers carries no risk. The exception is if you edit courts could get your personal information when the WMF loses a case, but you can't edit using an open proxy like Wikiless either (because if they allowed you to edit, it would be also be easy for banned editors to edit).

[–] Tw1light@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

ads? wikipedia has no ads either