Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

Post by philips4350 » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 8:59 AM UTC

tomcooks wrote: post #48

jakear wrote: post #26

> If you Google "Piratebay", the first search result is a fake "thepirate-bay.org" (with a dash) but the Wikipedia article lists the right one. — shpx How interesting. Bing doesn't do this, which leads me to believe it's not a matter of legality. Is Google simply electing to self-censor results that it'd prefer it's used not to know about? Strange move, especially given the alternative Google does index is almost def…

Google does list proper pirating sites! At the bottom of the page click on the DMCA complaint, you'll find all the URLs you shouldn't ever, never ever, click on~

Post by BillinghamJ » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 9:30 AM UTC

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #35

There's a risk of phishing by editing Wikipedia articles if the plugin gets popular. Perhaps it's useful to crosscheck the current URL against the 24-hour earlier and 48-hour earlier versions of the same article. Crosscheck back in time, not back in revision, since one can spam the history by making a lot of edits.

Post by terramex » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

philips4350 wrote: post #51

tomcooks wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google does list proper pirating sites! At the bottom of the page click on the DMCA complaint, you'll find all the URLs you shouldn't ever, never ever, click on~

Whats funny and ironic is that this actually makes finding pirated content much easier since only actual sites that contain pirated content are the ones that will be listed on DMCA complaint list

Post by s_gourichon » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

pishpash wrote: post #56

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #35

There's a risk of phishing by editing Wikipedia articles if the plugin gets popular. Perhaps it's useful to crosscheck the current URL against the 24-hour earlier and 48-hour earlier versions of the same article. Crosscheck back in time, not back in revision, since one can spam the history by making a lot of edits.

And what would you do if there was a difference?

Post by bausano_michael » Mon, Apr 06, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

frei wrote: post #18

Pretty neat! Similarly, I often use Wikipedia to find translations for specific technical terms that aren't in bilingual dictionaries or Google Translate. If you go to a wiki page about a term, there are usually many links on the sidebar to versions in other languages, which are usually titled with the canonical term in that language.