Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by Trump-appointed US attorney, accusing it of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information": washingtonpost.com/technology/, archive.is/UNXVy, via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Well, yes. Wikipedia editing is not limited to US-based Trump-loyalist propagandists. That's a good thing. This should be a warning, though, that Wikipedia's ownership and internet hosting being based in the US has become a liability rather than a strength.

See also _The Verge_, "Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia", theverge.com/news/656720/ed-ma, _The Guardian_, "Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him", from October 2023, _Le Monde_, "Why Elon Musk is calling for a boycott of Wikipedia", lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2, from January, and _The New Yorker_, "Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia: Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives", newyorker.com/news/the-lede/el, from March.

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Can someone post a reminder on how to download the wikipedia data please. Thanks.

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