This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Apple’s iCloud, Wikipedia is a miracle of humankind, and good soup.
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This week, I wrote about what the Wikimedia Foundation is doing to prepare itself for attacks from well-funded people who have decided to wage a harassment and legal war on Wikipedia editors. I am not going to rehash why people want to attack Wikipedia because it’s done very well in this article by Molly White, but boils down essentially to: Wikipedia is not that easily manipulated, it does not shy away from the truth, and its distributed, global nature makes it quite resilient.
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