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Was UkDrillas and/or the suspect also accused of going after explainxkcd? Because that seemed more like the Chinese launching their Hong Kong-fueled Streisand Effect Cannon. The Russian Conservapedia should be great. Good thing Intel is so heavily invested in Cloudfare, the endowment should pick up
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Toker also pointed out that "organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation seek to maintain a direct relationship with users in the interest of privacy, which means they can't readily opt for commercial DDoS protection services. Developing defenses against large-scale attacks while running a free and
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wrote the section on the DDoS. It's the best write-up I've seen anywhere. Of course many techies might know many more sources on this than I do. During the attack (I only had minor problems, but they were noticeable) I mainly wondered "what would anybody have to gain by attacking Knowledge?" Haeb
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and "find visually interesting ways to document the data for public viewing through the form of digital maps and Wikidata." From this June through September she tracked down the residences of many of the over 3000 accused Scots witches from the period 1563 – 1736, then displayed these and other
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and enter the name of your favorite Knowledge entry. The site then generates the "article" and can also generate a citation. If you resubmit the same Knowledge entry, you get a nearly identical article, but with a different title, authors and publication dates. See the two citations for
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I'm confused by the triumphal tone used in describing XOR'easter's editing. I have heard many cases where our biased editors come to consensus against alleged right-wing outlets. I wonder if XOR'easter does much to clean up the left-wing rags being used as sources here?
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that Cloudflare was indeed coming to the rescue: "they’ve been absolutely top notch, helping us roll onto a new service offering of theirs that was barely yet in the wild, direct lines of collaboration between staff on both sides" -
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open service is an unsolved technical problem." He was apparently referring to the fact that Wikimedia's privacy principles generally preclude the sharing of private reader data such as IP addresses with third parties, whereas e.g.
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first reported the story in 1944, which was then reported in academic journals, which were then cited by more questionable sources, which were cited in the Knowledge article. For the anniversary of the event, the
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covers the details of the project with the help of Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. About 20 accused Scots witches now have Knowledge articles.
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No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider,
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to translate articles into the Hindi language Knowledge. Scientists will also help translate and create new articles in Hindi and other Indian languages costing up to
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Those who get upset at violations of the CC-By license will have enough material to be angry for at least a year. But don't take this seriously folks.
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on September 11 was the first of several outlets to predict: "Turkey’s top court set to rescind Knowledge ban". But there's no actual news yet.
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back in 2011. During the discussion, Ingersoll speaks primarily about scalable machine learning. More recently, Ingersoll has been the CTO of
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Cloudflare had announced in mid-August, with presumably somewhat differing privacy implications. In any case, the apparent attacker had already
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Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? Edit next week's edition in the
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article after the former Vice-President's son became news last week. The article was reportedly biased by sources including the
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on equipment that has already been installed that will enable the Russian government to isolate the Russian internet in case the
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A net loss: Knowledge attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?: The internet may not be as stable as it seems
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The ultimate source of these problems, according to O'Leary is the anonymity and lack of accountability of the authors.
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they would stop targeting Knowledge (at least for some time) and take down certain video gaming services instead, with
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I was surprised that we don't have an article on Nedostroy, but I did look up an example on Google maps dated 2017
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Richards, Stephen. "How Mad Gasser of Mattoon Altered U.S. History." JournalOfm.org, M-Journal, 12 April 2017,
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As far as the Russian Conservapedia, if you mean the Great Russian Encyclopedia, it reminds me of the "
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Richards, Margaret. "The Complete History of Seth Kinman." JournalOfm.org, M-Journal, 5 August 2003,
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McGrath, Tony. "The Complete History of Exploding whale." JournalOfm.org, M-Journal, 31 July 2010,
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Smith, Darien. "How Seth Kinman Altered U.S. History." JournalOfm.org, M-Journal, 2 August 2014,
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questions the use of crowdsourcing as it's being tested by Amazon to answer questions posed to
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will continue to have a contentious relationship with the Belarusian and Russian governments.
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which condemned the attack and attributed it only to "bad faith" actors. One exception was
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Knowledge down: 'Malicious attack' brings down online encyclopedia after pages fail to load
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MiniWiki unofficial Knowledge Apple Watch app adds ‘Random’ articles, independent language
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https://journalofm.org/article/how-mad-gasser-of-mattoon-altered-u.s.-history.pdf
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predicts that the GRE will always be the future of the Russian internet and that
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was almost as lucky, getting a permanent soft block for a promotional username
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https://journalofm.org/article/the-complete-history-of-exploding-whale.pdf
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A net loss: Knowledge attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?
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New West cops blocked in attempt to scrub off-duty assault from Knowledge
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of an already trading company which avoids the regulatory scrutiny of an
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What 'left-wing rags' in the Hunter Biden article did you have in mind?
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https://journalofm.org/article/how-seth-kinman-altered-u.s.-history.pdf
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https://journalofm.org/article/the-complete-history-of-seth-kinman.pdf
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This Website Will Turn Knowledge Articles Into "Real" Academic Papers
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Asked a Knowledge Contributor Why Everyone Thinks They're Unreliable
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but nobody will ever say that it is the backbone of the internet.
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Marijuana company shares have been smoking hot this year, but are
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the end result can be "appallingly biased" — where she's quoting
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that a Twitter account named "@UkDrillas" (since suspended) had
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locations on digital maps and uploaded the data to Wikidata.
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Not only Russia suffers from abandoned construction projects
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sourced, but untrue, information can be accepted as factual
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is still the future of the Russian internet according to
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The best way to view the output is to go to the site
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Knowledge Gets $ 2.5m Donation to Boost Cybersecurity
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Automated translation of English to Hindi Knowledge
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