Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
Behind the X owner’s trolling is a years long obsession with the internet’s favorite encyclopedia, says Depths of Wiki creator Annie Rauwerda.
The entirety of the Musk sycophant Twitter sphere lost their mind about Wikipedia’s finances this week. Only because this dipshit tweeted a lie. Crazy how people can’t fathom that a non-profit that runs one of the most successful websites ever has high costs because they pay their engineers well. These people truly believe that everyone working at a non-profit should get starvation wages.
Ive responded elsewhere in this thread, and think we are otherwise aligned against this cunt, so maybe, just maybe this is a good time to give Wikipedia one of your hard earned dollars? One dollar.
Much of Musk’s consternation with Wikipedia appears to be less about its features but more about his inability to control what it says about him.
After ruining Twitter, Elon just want the world’s most popular encyclopaedia bend towards his will.
People should seriously consider the possibility of migrating to alternative platforms like Mastodon and WireMin. While these platforms may still be in their early stages, they will never be controlled by Elon or anyone else. Because unlike Twitter, which operates on central servers controlled by Elon, Mastodon and WireMin are decentralized. And it’s important to convey to Elon that X is fundamentally reliant on us, the users.
Ah. So this os the end goal - obtain very popular and influential things on the internet - in this case communication and knowledge/facts, and destroy them in such a way that only technofascists like himself can even find them remotely useful.
It’s the ultimate way to fuck up any democratic society and plunge the world further into chaos. What a dumpster fire.
So he did get Twitter just to ruin it and take it away from the left. This proves it, because he wants to do it again to Wikipedia whilst calling it "Wokipedia" like a broken, right wing soundboard. Neither platform allowed lies and, since it's the right and their only move is lies, in his view that makes them biased. Elon intentionally sabotaged twitter because it wouldn't let him and his rich cunt friends lie and now they want to do it to Wikipedia. He genuinely doesn't have a moral foundation, it's just lies and manipulation all the way down to his shriveled, rotten core.
Just facists destroying faith in everything that’s not them. Normal modus operandi. These people need sheep who are so confused what to believe that they don’t trust anyone anymore and instead substitute trust for blind faith.
Hasn't he learned anything from Wikia/Fandom?
The WoWWiki and RuneScape Wiki communities ditched Wikia due to them plastering the fuck out of their wikis with tonnes of intrusive ads.
Heck, the WoW community had to ditch Wowpedia (WoWWiki's successor) to found a new wiki because Gamepedia was bought out by Fandom, the company that Wikia eventually became. Fandom ended up pulling the exact same shit soon after.
As for RuneScape, its wiki is hosted by Jagex themselves.
Musk buying Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation would end in financial disaster. Nothing would be stopping people from jumping ship to an alternative.
God-tier title
Don't you dare fucking touch Wikipedia
Just a heads up, you can download all of wikipedias Text in a couple Gigabyte iirc. So we could easily "fork" and mirror it.
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Please for the love of whatever you hold dear, do not touch that website
If my 5€ donation from last year has any power, I will veto this.
Let the clown wring his hands over something he can't control.
we should make wikipedia into an everything app
Was this an offer or was this Elon Musk pandering to the 6 year old bully demographic? It's hard for me to tell because it's been 30 years since I've seen someone swing this much weight to try to make a dick pun at someone else's expense
Super rich and powerful people hate anything they can't have or control. They are used to getting everything they want if they pay enough money or pull enough strings.
The idea of a successful thing being completely beyond their reach torments them, they seethe with rage at anything their blood-stained, filthy dollars can't buy, it galls them and I am absolutely filled with glee at the thought.
Fuck no
Wikipedia should've agreed. Imagine for minimum a year, the whole world opening Wikipedia, gets reminded on the clown Elon Musk, again and again.
I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and "Elon Musk" becomes "Felon Musk".
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the middle of a wave of rampant misinformation, excessive hate speech, and endless harassment, X owner Elon Musk set his sights on Wikipedia.
Not to be outdone by his own tweet, Musk immediately followed it up with a challenge: “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.”
Beyond its status as the largest and “most-read reference work in history,” Wikipedia has long been heralded as a product of both massive fundraising and an internet full of people obsessed with very specific things.
Earlier this month, Musk called the internet encyclopedia “wokipedia,” after co-founder Wales criticized rampant misinformation on X.
(An October report from NBC found that the Community Notes program has allowed known war misinformation to thrive on the platform unchecked for hours.)
For Rauwerda’s own purposes, right now that includes the description of zoo animals as celebrities in 19th-century American news and a serial defecator in Colorado nicknamed the Mad Pooper.
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Take the money then we would just call it the site formerly known as wikipedia. Similar to how x is simply formerly known as twitter.
Nonprofit organizations that moderate a website should stay nonprofit, because at least they're not prone to making crappy business decisions that'll end up hurting them in the long term.
Wikipedia should counter-offer X changes its name to SeX for >= amount. Jimbo can even show Musk how to recruit and retain far more effective and cost-effective and robust moderation culture like the GOAT they are.
Im assuming this is just more effort by him working for Russian interests. Wikipedia being too credible for the war in Ukraine.
…into the ground.
We need a real life Trading Places where Elin ends up under a bridge or in prison.
Might as well rename this community "musk"
he ain't
Didn’t read the article. Just stopping by to say how much I love this title. Thanks!
He might be the person most addicted to social media on the planet
I mean full support to ruining the internet, its a shit hole anyways
Ah, yes. Another intellectually impartial post. lmfao
It's not possible to make liberal cesspools any worse, so... Things are looking up!
Sure go for it. There's plenty wrong with Wikipedia already.
Since he's attacking Jimmy Wales how bout he buy and destroy Fandom too?
Too late it already ruined itself.
EDIT Wikipedia is bad place to learn about politics and history.
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