[thecopy]

They wont admit anything

[flir]

At least we'll get a good example for the Chesterton's Fence wiki page.

[krger]

Until the Heritage Foundation succeeds in dismantling Wikipedia.

[flir]

That makes me wonder what the Wikimedia Foundation's disaster recovery plan looks like.

The crucial bit of infrastructure (and the most vulnerable point right now) might be the domain name.

[bee_rider]

FWIW they have instructions for downloading the whole thing, which mention that it is also downloadable from BitTorrent. So I think it is functionally impossible to delete Wikipedia.

I’d be more worried about propaganda being inserted.

[flir]

I'm not worried about the data, and even losing the servers would be a hiccup. But whatever site is at www.wikipedia.org is, in the minds of the general public, Wikipedia.

Domain names have been seized in the past.

[tomnipotent]

I imagine most traffic to Wikipedia is through search, so I imagine such a fate is in the hands of search engines. If a community-driven alternative appeared, we'd have to rely on Google indexing this alternative and ranking it higher than the usurped domain.

[willy_k]

> I’d be more worried about propaganda being inserted.

FWIW, it would be far from the first time that’s happened (including for sensitive US issues).

[ddgflorida]

It is loaded with propaganda right now.

[gota]

Chesterton's Nuclear Security Program

[0] https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/02/doge-fired-hundreds-of-us...

[roywiggins]

Is it really a Chesterton's Fence if it's covered in signs saying "do not remove" with simple explanations in large, friendly letters?

[warningforever]

Not if you stop understanding or believing the signs.

Very well done doc, though overly concerned, on how keep people in the future away from nuclear waste: Into Eternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLxB9fV2y4