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who updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?


They are published on the old ones. The old ones don't all get shut down simultaneously.


So old school! They gonna release an MCP?


No idea how an MCP is relevant to the discussion, it still needs a working domain name to talk to the service.

But, https://github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp


His point is that you don't need a working domain name since the MCP can just hardcode the IPs of the servers or resolve them through any other method that isn't DNS.


Would be fairly easy for them to offer an onion service on which they publish the current list of domains, as one option among many, many options for distributing small strings on the internet in an uncensorable way.


the beauty of wikipedia as dns is its easy access, are there similarly easily accessible uncensorable ways?


Ideally it is common knowledge that the onion service exists, and then people can go look at the onion service and update Wikipedia based on what they see there.


Also onion doesn't require a domain register


While true, most people don’t (and won’t ever) know how to use it. But enough will to keep Wikipedia updated I suppose.


Does it matter? It's not illegal to update an article with a new domain.


Yes it does matter. Users need to know that the updated URL is correct and trustworthy.


This is Wikipedia.

For that type of publishing please use Encyclopedia Britannica.

You will get the url in the 2027 edition on print.


Oh how I wish the print editions were still being released.


If you are really interested we could try piping their [API](https://encyclopediaapi.com/products/index) to some printable format. Maybe we can even find a quality print on demand service or bind it by hand :)




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