“This is not the first time Musk has gone after the site. In December, he posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia.” And that wasn’t even his first bad Wikipedia pun. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he wrote, in an October, 2023, post. It seemed to be an ego thing at first. Musk objected to being described on his page as an “early investor” in Tesla, rather than as a founder, which is how he prefers to be identified, and seemed frustrated that he couldn’t just buy the site. But lately Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that Wikipedia—which, like all encyclopedias, is a tertiary source that relies on original reporting and research done by other media and scholars—is biased against conservatives.”
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Can’t shake the feeling Musk doesn’t like Wikipedia because Musk only likes facts he can use.
Started a monthly 3 dollar donation when baby Nazi started shit talking Wikipedia some months ago.
Me too - they need it now more than ever when Trump and Musk starts focusing on Wikipedia.
Donate. How many times a day do you use wikipedia? It would be shit if it became another Fandom style wiki. With an ad every 3rd word.
We use Wikipedia a lot, mostly to understand references from another country or culture, the rest to answer the question: “Who the hell is s/he…” The latter enquiries are often interesting, but rarely resolve the real issue, which is “… and why is s/he famous?” At any rate, we send a goodly annual donation, because without Wikipedia, we’d be even more out of touch than we already are!
“This is not the first time Musk has gone after the site. In December, he posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia.” And that wasn’t even his first bad Wikipedia pun. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he wrote, in an October, 2023, post.
You can’t buy it, but you can go create a conservative fork called whatever you want, and you can fund its operation. If people think that it’s better, they can choose to use it.
There’s a Conservapedia, which I would call pretty off-the-rails; people have tried this before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
Conservapedia (/kənˌsɜː®vəˈpiːdiə/; kən-SU®-və-PEE-di-ə) is an English-language, wiki-based, online encyclopedia written from a self-described American conservative[2] and fundamentalist Christian[3] point of view. The website was established in 2006 by American attorney and activist Andrew Schlafly, son of Phyllis Schlafly,[4][5] to counter what he perceived as a liberal bias on Wikipedia.[6][7] It uses editorials and a wiki-based system for content generation.
Examples of Conservapedia’s ideology include its accusations against and strong criticism of former US president Barack Obama—including advocacy of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories[8]—along with criticisms of atheism, feminism, homosexuality, the Democratic Party, and evolution. Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism,[9] claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer, praises Republican politicians, supports celebrities and artistic works it believes represent moral standards in line with Christian family values, and espouses fundamentalist Christian doctrines such as Young Earth creationism.[10][11] Conservapedia’s “Conservative Bible Project” is a crowd-sourced retranslation of the English-language Bible which the site says to be “free of corruption by liberal untruths.”[12]
Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism
I just spat out my coffee :D utter lunacy
It’s been a few years since I checked, but I do recall their page about irrational numbers being hilarious. Felt like it was written by a high school gym teacher who also taught grade 9 math , so he didn’t really need to understand irrational numbers but was super irritated that they exist.
The fascists want to shut down any information source that can prove they are lying.
History is written by the victors.
“Hmm 🤔, I’m rich, that should make me a victor, ergo…”
Could it be he has issues with freedom of speech/opinion (actually freedom in general) ? Asking for a friend
Hmmm…you might be on to something, I don’t know
He has an issue with fact checking, and the fact that his bullshit rhetoric is proven false over and over and over on that site.
just like his buddy-in-a-diaper and everyone else in magaland.
I miss the times when people like this was seen as mentally ill.
Shit like this is why I donate to Wikipedia.
Fuck off and die, nazi scum.
Conservativism is rooted in vibes and feelings, and false narratives to support those feelings. This is why they hate knowledge and people who attain it.
It’s a disease of the mind, it’s like they would rather be animal than human
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Just donated. You should too.
I love donating to Wikipedia because there’s so few FREE things anymore, and it’s one that benefits every single person on the planet.
Have been donating to them yearly for a few years after they started their donation campaign. I forget how much I donate, but I’m considering raising my yearly donation now xD
I appreciate you.
Fascists always have problems with publicly available knowledge.
Enjoy my small donation Wikipedia.
‘which is how he prefers to be identified’ … hmnnn - so he CHOOSES to IDENTIFY as one thing and doesn’t like it when people don’t allow him to use his preferred identificaiton?
I also choose to identify as the founder of Tesla.
I happily donate to Wikipedia every year :)
