Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

you can consult Russian Wiki, where they rewrote all political and history pages

Can you link some specific examples?



En: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbass Ru: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83...

En: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_... Ru: none, lol

En: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru... Ru: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE...

En: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War Ru: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83...

For several years they vandalized Kievan Rus' page (in Ru segment) renaming it to Ancient Rus'. For some reason they stopped doing it now , but all changes are still in history. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81...

En: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 Ru: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Катастрофа_Boeing_777_в_Донецк...

Basically any mention of unfavorable or outright bad mention about current country of a dictator or about any preceding country from which they claim inheritance is censored or obfuscated or buried in a flood of "alternative" opinions.


1) Some freak repeatedly vandalized a Wikipedia page. Editors reverted the vandalism, perpetrator stopped trying. If I understood all of this correctly, why is it not simply Wikipedia working as intended?

2) So, Russia and USA & Britain are involved in some recent and ongoing armed conflicts (all of them near Russian borders, I'd note). There's some difference in coverage of said conflicts between Russian and English Wikipedias, sure (though I skimmed the linked articles and didn't immediately notice blatant censorship on either side). And you cite that as Russians rewriting "all political and history pages"? Seriously?

3) The "lol" one is the coolest. "Ukrainian armed forces: 232,000 … 15,000 defected to Russia." Didn't see the figure before. If Russian Wikipedia was a worthy piece of pro-Russian propaganda, of course it would also have this figure in a prominent box. Alas, Russian Wikipedia is worse than English one at almost anything, including pro-Russian propaganda.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: