Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia : enoughmuskspam

[+] AlDente@sh.itjust.works -6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (15 children)

I donated to Wikipedia once before, but never again. Their endowment has grown to a level where they should be completely self-sustained. However, spending is out of control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

Edit: I'm glad Wikipedia exists, but to say they are hurting for more cash is completely false. Even according to their own financial disclosures, web hosting expenses have stabilized under $4-million a year (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation). As contributions continue to grow, it is spent on higher salaries for executives. The CEO made $789k in 2021, all while content is created by volunteers.

Edit, edit: a relevant chart straight from the Wikimedia Foundation Wiki page is below. Internet hosting is one of the smallest expense buckets and has been relatively flat year-over-year. Alternatively, salaries and wages are on an unsustainable upward trajectory. This chart is even a few years old and salaries have almost doubled in the last three years to over $101-million in 2023, all while hosting expenses have remained flat.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I donate $20 every year, but I also donate again whenever this goof makes headlines going after Wikipedia. Feels good. Fuck you, cunt.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Time to annually donate to wikipedia.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know, I do usually, but now I'm going to go monthly.

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Been monthly for years. I truly believe it is the most important thing humanity has ever built. Nothing has done more to make knowledge accessible.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago

I donated once this month already but I'll fucking do it again.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can somebody take aim on his head finally?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Won't somebody rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 day ago

TBH i think we need Mario for this one

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

He is rather turbulent

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Gonna need Mario for that

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nah, too basic and low-tech. He deserves nothing less than a drone strike

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be more suitable for Mr. "I AM High Tech Personified" to be taken out in a decidedly low tech way.

Maybe we can combine high and low tech: a drone that drops lazy dogs on him. Those things are REALLY nasty and very hard to defend against.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Drone-deployed anvil, for the full looney tunes effect?

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ya he needs one of those knife missles we usually reserve for “terrorists”

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

I'd prefer he gets Gaddafied but maybe that's just me

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd prefer him taken out by his own spawn. FSDing down a cliff.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm wishing for a stroke and locked-in syndrome.

Let him experience hell on earth before he dies.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, that I want for Trump 💝

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 3 points 1 day ago

I thought that's who we were talking about.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The Good ole Frankenstein demise.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Drone strikes are too covert.

You want death to knock first for a guy like Musk. Make him answer the door.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago

This parasite is doing his best to lead humanity further down the path of annihilation. He needs to go.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fourth most visited site in the world.. he wants to install ads on it and own it.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

(and control what it says)

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

He's being filed by a constant stream of validation from musk simps, yes men, now the next POTUS, so he thinks he's unstoppable.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago

Well, I hate to admit it, but I've never donated to Wikipedia.

But this just made me set up a recurring donation. Streisand effect sorta, I guess.

Fuck Elon Musk.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

Crowdsourced information does put a bit of a damper on the whole “history written by the victors” thing.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

Elon takes aim and the media are right there to make his job easier. Thank goodness there's reporting on everything he wants.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 45 points 1 day ago

Guy who owns biased platform claims other platform that has negative views on him is biased. Someone tell Elon that if he donates enough he can have controlling shares of Wiki. He can't, but he doesn't have to know that.

[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, any platform that may contradict his obvious attempt to dominate America through propaganda must be removed.

[–] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Just like he's increasing Secular Talk viewership he's also increasing Wikipedia donations.

I hope lots of folks also download copies of Wikipedia, just in case. Elon is a sore loser type with too much money and free time.

[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Made a donation just to spite him. Fuck you Elon.

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

~~The reaction to this completely neutral article says it all. Right-wing snowflakes gonna ❄️.~~

Edit: Or not... see @ChairmanMeow's response.

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 29 points 1 day ago

Btw.

In January 2024, David Rozado, an associate professor in computational science at New Zealand's Otago Polytechnic, published a study that found: "Wikipedia was more likely to portray right-leaning figures negatively than their left-leaning counterparts."

The real question is not whether Wikipedia is biased, but whether it's fair. In politics not everybody is equally right. And there are some real shit heads on the right. In other words Elon Musk is not entitled to a positive Wikipedia page.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I think this is just a case of unclear UI. This is the default stance of the meter, before you've entered a vote. After you vote it shows the most common answer underneath the meter.

I voted just now, and the most common vote was "fair/center".

Note how the needle is also off the meter, instead of pointing at one of the segments.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

wow that is truly awful UI you’re right

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for your reply. That's a really bad design.

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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Oh, that reminds me I have to renew my donation.

[–] anonymous111@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Does anyone know what the equality money is spent on?

Is it things censorship bypassing or something else?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ugh

Enough Musk Spam