Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Guess who's getting their first donation ever from me.
Wait, maybe that's what he wanted to have happen. Maybe?
Please do not assign reverse altruism to horrible actions being done by horrible people.
Same.
Do you want me to donate to Wikipedia? Because NOW I’m going to donate to Wikipedia
This news caused me to set up a recurring monthly donation, where I haven't actually donated to Wikipedia historically.
Actually thank you. Yep monthly I’ve have now set up
Thanks Elon.
Same. $5 a month is a small price to pay to ensure that Wikipedia remains free of this turd's influence.
I will join you
Could someone please take aim at Elon Musk?
Will no one rid me of this turbulent apartheidist?
Nice deep cut reference there. Well done
One can dream.
Reminds me to donate to Wikipedia ..... and download another updated copy of the entire Wikipedia database.
Got any links on how to do that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Kiwix seems to be the most popular app to browse offline web pages like this.
I'd like to see how much of an uptick in these they've gotten lately. I'm gonna do this myself
I have my issues with Wikipedia, and he’s not wrong about the concentration of power amongst editors. However, fuck Elon Musk. He’s just mad that he can’t control Wikipedia himself.
he’s not wrong about the concentration of power amongst editors
The classic problem of an open-edit document like Wikipedia is the manpower it takes to manage the project properly relative to the incentives to fuck with it by malicious actors. Elon's answer to this problem is to monetize the sinking ship to the hilt and then use the excess revenues to buy the next new thing. The Jimmy Wales approach is to build out a network of trusted administrators and semi-trusted volunteers to play wack-a-mole on this one single project forever.
Originally, the theory of Wikipedia was that you'd have far more good actors than bad. Therefore, the bulk of the encyclopedia would accumulate useful information that went largely unmolested and didn't need to be babysat by live humans. This... hasn't proven to be the case. So the costs of the website continue to expand as the content base does.
Automation of spammers, scammers, and malicious actors has made the problem even more difficult. And I have no doubt that Elon's own digital vandalism efforts have taken their toll as well. There's simply too much economic incentive to fuck with the public's understanding of the world for a project like Wikipedia to go ignored.
I'm afraid its days are ultimately numbered, precisely because too many people trust it.
Makes me wonder if you won't see and Andrew Carnegie of this era step up and endow it against his fellow capitalist.
I'm proud to downvote this screed of baseless doomsaying but I'm dismayed at the fact that I'm the only one doing so.
Just goes to show that you come to Lemmy because of the potential of a federated platform, not for the reality of its current community (which is absolute garbage.)
Well, I'd been putting it off so I figured this was the push I needed to donate again
Just sent them $50 as well. Thanks for reminding me, Musk!
Fuck you I'm gonna donate even harder
Leon Skum urges people not to donate? That's a good reason to donate.
He’s such a snowflake
Thank you Elon for reminding me to donate.
Leave it to wingnut trolls like Musk to politicize everything.
Musk is such a dumbass.
A freely accessible collection of human knowledge? Of course authoritarians hate it. An informed populace is their enemy.
All under the guise of "free speech". Which, as we all know, means speech that align with Elon's currently held opinions.