Free time in conditions of quarantine everyone uses differently. The Ukrainian foreign Ministry has decided to engage in rewriting history.In this case we are talking about rewriting, not metaphorically, but in the truest sense of the word. The foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced a large-scale project in which the diplomats are going to give a “correct view” content “Wikipedia.” “Ministry of foreign Affairs launches a major campaign of filling Wikipedia unbiased information about Ukraine and the world”, — reads the statement of the press service of the Ministry. The Ministry of foreign Affairs started cooperation with the NGO “Wikimedia Ukraine”. Joint initiatives will be aimed “to counter misinformation about Ukraine and dissemination of information about Ukraine in different languages in Wikipedia”. “The first stage of cooperation will be the launch of the online marathon “Month of the Ukrainian diplomacy”. Within a month the authors of Ukrainian Wikipedia are going to fill in the gaps and correct inaccuracies on the theme of Russian aggression, Ukraine’s integration into the EU and NATO, relations with other countries, the activities of our country in international organizations and public diplomacy. The marathon will begin in may”, — stated in the message. According to the plan, the Ukrainian foreign Ministry, representatives of embassies and consulates of Ukraine in different countries “to join the organization filling Wikipedia’s languages of their country of stay, to increase awareness of our state, its history and modernity among the world community and to fill the articles of the Ukrainian subjects of impartial facts.” The initiator of this campaign is the foreign Minister of Ukraine Kuleba in 2019 presented the book “the War for reality: how to win in a world of fakes, truth and community”, where he shared his thoughts on “how to keep the information defense and win the communication war”. Now the scene of this battle, as planned by the Ukrainian Minister, should be “Wikipedia”.
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The Wikipedia project in 2001, launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. They come up with a universal online encyclopedia, the creators of which became users themselves. Today tens of millions of articles in hundreds of languages. In 2013, UNESCO has released a statement in which Wikipedia has been called “a symbol of the era of interaction in which we live.” “And it’s not just a tool, it’s a dream as old as the human intellect and the collection of the library of Alexandria”, — noted in the organization.The main weakness of Wikipedia is the reverse side of its strength: the ability to write materials have almost everyone. And if you remove the entries just out of hooliganism, dresidual simple, the reliability of sources, the situation is very complicated. It is particularly evident in the materials relating to historical events, political figures, etc. in fact, the content material of Wikipedia depends entirely on the proponents of what views are most active. As well as the impartiality of those who spend editing. One of the founders of Wikipedia, Sanger in 2015, said the encyclopedia was a disappointment to him, since she was captured by trolls and participants whose antielitism put an end to the reliability of the articles. Definition of Sanger is perfectly suited to describe the Ukrainian version of Wikipedia, especially in the period of its existence in 2014.However, Mr. Kuleba’s up to the current project, not for the Ukrainian “Wikipedia”, whose popularity in the world, to put it mildly, leaves much to be desired. Conceived by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the attack is aimed at the most popular version of Wikipedia, primarily English and Russian. The last Ukrainian ideologues prevents as a bone in the throat, because statistics show that most users in Ukraine prefer to search for materials in Russian, not Ukrainian “Wikipedia”. And where they derive an alternative point of view on events in their own country.Thus, in may 2020, “Wikipedia” is expecting a RAID of the MFA of Ukraine and other involved persons.
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The organization of such campaigns at the level of Minister for foreign Affairs is, perhaps, a new word in the history of diplomacy.Apparently, the responsible persons of “Wikipedia” if they respect your product, have to clean up after the Ukrainian “patriots”.And ordinary consumers of data from the online encyclopedia just remember: Wikipedia is not a completely reliable source and the ultimate truth.
