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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by RGamma on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:20PM (#47266020)
Seems like a good time to donate one's resources to fix it. The internet is super hostile these days. If Wikipedia falls... well...
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by tick_tock_tick on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:11PM (#47267340)
Wikipedia doesn't even spend donation of Wikipedia anymore.
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by Wikipedianon on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:29PM (#47266858)
It's a political issue. Editors are unwilling or unable to contribute to development of the features they need to edit.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia is run on insecure user scripts created by volunteers that tend to be under the age of 18.

There might be more editors trying to resume boost if editing Wikipedia under your real name didn't invite endless harassment.

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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by logophobia on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:43PM (#47266309)
Sounds more like a political issue this. Can't buy your way out of that.
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by PsylentKnight on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:39PM (#47266263)
My understanding is that Wikipedia receives more donations than they need, surely they have the resources to fix it themselves?
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by noosphr on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:46PM (#47266338)
You would first need to realzie it's a problem.
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by krater23 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:02PM (#47266551)
Maybe this is the reason for this worm. Someone is angry because they don't got it in another way...
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by jibal on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:52PM (#47267124)
The worm is a two year old script from the Russian Wiki that was grabbed randomly for a test by a stupid admin running unsandboxed with full privileges, so no.
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Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account ... by diath on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:11PM (#47268535)
They have 100s of millions USD, they will be fine: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikim... (page 5-7).
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