Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-07-18/Recent_research

Instead of [...] a license that requires derivatives and other uses of the licensed material to retain the same license[,] Wikidata utilizes a license that has no requirements. This might sound ideal for โ€œfreedom,โ€ but in reality, Wikidata seems to appropriate that particular FOSS imaginary of sharing while instead delicensing information into data by assigning it a CC0 licenseโ€”allowing companies to extract, commodify, and otherwise use these data in ways to create systems without requirements to honor the license or reference the works that were utilized.

โ€”quoted by the second part of the article

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Calling it a marxist critique is going to do nothing but drive people away from the outcome u want. Stop fighting to be right and start fighting to win.


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