Calling the free online collaborative encyclopedia “Wokepedia,” Musk said it should “restore balance” to its “editing authority.”
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You know, I just donated 10 bucks. But after reading all the comments, I think I gotta start paying monthly. I don’t use Wikipedia, but I sure as hell know the internet will be even worse off without it, cuz it’s one of the few websites where it’s owners actually care
Well now I’m just gonna double my donation
i look forward to reading the near-future headline “wikipedia sees surge in donations”
I already donated for the first tine recently. I guess I could smell the impending winds. But this overt mandate may be what pushes me past one time into regular scheduled donations.
I did it. $5.65/mo.
Do I get $5.65/mo out of wikipedia? I don’t having a fucking clue how to value the knowledge I get out of it, so I’ll say yes.
Try the easiest way. Its about 40 minutes of paid work assuming US minimum wage, 15 min if you’re a kiwi.
Id take that.
I donated specifically because of this asshat.
Same! Fuck this guy!
fuck elon, but also fuck snopes https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20139932
Most of the anti-Snopes claims appear to have been debunked, i.e. see comment: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20139932/12171049 from the same post you quoted. There appears to be a concerted effort to spread disinfo about Snopes and Wikipedia right now. Musk/Trump & their clownshirts don’t seem to want anybody fact checking their constant stream of lies.
Thanks for the reminder to donate to wikipedia!
What a shitbag
I personally don’t want to fund the DEI scam but until it affects the actual encyclopaedia I couldn’t care less if anyone else wants to donate. in fact if you’re ok with a percentage going to racist consultants please keep funding this amazing tool because someone has to.
Musk is delusional if he thinks any of this colours the facts. or he’s playing 4D chess trying to get libs to donate out of spite … I honestly wouldn’t give him that much credit though.
DeI iS rAcIsT
Please elaborate on the “DEI scam”?
And everything else too, I’m curious…
you know what ? I’m gonna start donating harder
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I’m pretty sure Wikipedia serves WAY WAY more content than archive.org
Space on disk isn’t everything
Anyone can edit Wikipedia but archive.org is a snapshot of history
All of Wikipedia is on the Internet archive. Including history of articles and images
And how many people do you think uses either on a daily basis
Wikipedia is the 7# most visited website in the world
Archive.org is like #200
that’s a good point, bandwidth is pretty expensive and wikipedia probably serves mondobytes more than archive.org, per whatever time unit.
my guess is they’re still better funded and archive.org actually needs more money… also that musk talking shit about wikipedia is just going to drive up donations… the overlap between musk haters and wikipedia donors is probably pretty big…. especially compared to musk loafer lickers and wikipedia donors.
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i still think the internet archive is more crucial to democracy and human freedom because without it we get closer to a 1984 memory hole where old stories that don’t make certain institutions look good are burned away.
a lot of times what people change in public is very telling of what they want to keep secret….
accountability and such….
but if i were going to donate to two charities it would be both of them, probably about equally.
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You never use the wayback machine?
Sure, but Wikipedia is used a whole lot more.
Storage is very cheap, and should not be used as a metric for how much money an organization needs.
Bandwidth can get expensive though.
You know what I’m gonna donate even harder now
Good idea, just donated a tenner
Prove it
Username checks out!
Well, guess I better head over to Wikipedia and send some money their way.
He probably wants college citations to read ‘quoted from xitter’ instead of ‘quoted from wikipedia’. Bastard.
Fuck musk
Fuck Wikipedia for pretending to be paupers every time I visit their site in winter, too. I know you guys don’t need the money, stop playing poor
Grandson of Nazis, son of apartheid mine owners, revealing his true colors.
