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[–] simplejack 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia. I have now donated to Wikipedia.

[–] Joeffect 18 points 3 days ago

This man did more for Wikipedia than those annoying Wikipedia messages could ever do

[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 days ago (2 children)

a new popular front is forming:

[–] NONE_dc 35 points 4 days ago

My God, this is amazing.

[–] iAvicenna 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure the bar for membership is low, about waist high, but you will have to practice your spinning kick.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] NONE_dc 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"All my ex's are woke! My child, who hates me, is woke! The IRS is Woke! The advertisers who don't want to give me money are woke! Woo oooohhh ooooh, everything I hate is woke~" 🎶

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Wikipedia is arguably the best website on all of the internet.

Like, if you wanted one website to survive the apocalypse or whatever, it's probably Wikipedia.

[–] FlyingSquid 104 points 4 days ago (6 children)

"The Wikimedia Foundation wishes to thank Elon Musk for our sudden large rush of donations..."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I donate each time anyways, will double it this time. May Elon choke on an orange hog this Christmas.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never donated before today. Thanks elon I guess 👍

[–] Fredselfish 12 points 4 days ago

Me neither but just did.

[–] ThePyroPython 17 points 4 days ago

Yeah it's been a while since I last donated and there is some light controversy around how Wikipedia goes about asking for money but I still believe in their mission.

So fuck you Musk, have a twenty Wikipedia.

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[–] bitjunkie 10 points 3 days ago

God what a fucking moron

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago

Because any information at all is woke.

This is the idiocracy way.

[–] GetOn 17 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the reminder. Just donated!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] arni 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

After reading your coment I've donated 10 euro ; )

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Runs platform based on lies and hates platform based on truth. Check notes yeah that about sums it up.

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[–] TheDemonBuer 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am a monthly donor to Wikipedia, because I think it's an incredibly important resource. Elon Musk can fuck all the way off.

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[–] NewAgeOldPerson 6 points 3 days ago

I told myself during my undergrad that if I ever made enough money, I would support a handful of causes. Wiki is on top of that list. I donate $20 monthly so don't feel bad if you aren't able to yet. It takes a village. One day when I'm on a fixed income, someone else can make that lavish $20/month donation :⁠-⁠)

Honestly thought, I need to reevaluate if I can give more. Thanks for reminding me Apartheid Musk!

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh. I had never donated to Wikipedia, and here I am...

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[–] eyjohn 24 points 3 days ago

For those of you with workplace donation platforms, Wikipedia/wikimedia are usually registered and eligible for company match, so is the web archive.

[–] DicJacobus 15 points 3 days ago

I had an uncle who was a rabid Trump supporter. Ultranationalist, White Supremacist and Bible thumper. (its even weirder that my uncle is a Canadian living in the US who refuses to get US citizenship).

he moved to Texas because he wanted to get away from the "morally bankrupt liberals" in California, moved to Texas because Elon went there. I think the only person he loved more than Trump was Elon.

then suddenley, one day he told the family that he wasn't following Elon anymore, and that Elon is evil. I'd really like to hear what he has to say about it. Except there is zero contact because the guy is so deranged he made death threats against my mother. So we're keeping him at length and not giving him any sense of welcome that he can come back into our lives, or worse yet, come visit physically.

still, would be interesting to see into the mind of a lunatic.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid 27 points 4 days ago

Been a while since I donated. Thanks for the reminder, Elon.

[–] SirMaple__ 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

Oh, great reminder, I didn't donate in a few months, gonna send them a lil Santa coffee gift right now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, I wasn't sure about donating this year, this sealed the deal for me. What an asshole.

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[–] HexesofVexes 25 points 4 days ago

He looks like he starts all his announcements with an unironic "fellow humans".

Seriously, is he some kind of meat puppet controlled by incel aliens?

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am beginning to think Satan will turn out less evil than this monster.

[–] PlantDadManGuy 18 points 4 days ago

$10 donation coming in hot!

[–] uebquauntbez 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] Aneb 3 points 2 days ago

First year I change my one time $20 donation to a recurring $2.75 a month. I use wiki and they deserve to be customer funded vs the big corps controlling our free access to information

[–] dustyData 17 points 4 days ago

I usually donate a low amount, but I'm going to drop a $50 this year now. We know this asshat's threats are random, but we can't risk it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I dunno, doesn't seem like the conservapedia shithole likes elon much either.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Elon_Musk#Controversies

[–] RizzRustbolt 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dude has Resting Sauhagin Face.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

So, how many GB to save a complete copy of Wikipedia?

[–] ccunning 23 points 4 days ago

It’s a 19GB download that expands to 86GB for only the current article versions in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's a zim for kiwix(an offline client for wiki sites) that's around 100GB with photos.

Latest is updated to January 2024.

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim

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[–] tired_n_bored 8 points 3 days ago

Just donated

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] BetaBlake 10 points 4 days ago

I'm going to donate even harder now

[–] theunknownmuncher 13 points 4 days ago
[–] chonglibloodsport 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I like Wikipedia but I’m still not going to donate. They’ve got many millions and a bunch of millionaires on the board. They don’t need my money!

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