I’ve never donated to Wikipedia. I have now donated to Wikipedia.
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This man did more for Wikipedia than those annoying Wikipedia messages could ever do
a new popular front is forming:
My God, this is amazing.
how do I join?
I'm sure the bar for membership is low, about waist high, but you will have to practice your spinning kick.
"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~" 🎶
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.
"The Wikimedia Foundation wishes to thank Elon Musk for our sudden large rush of donations..."
I donate each time anyways, will double it this time. May Elon choke on an orange hog this Christmas.
Never donated before today. Thanks elon I guess 👍
Me neither but just did.
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.
God what a fucking moron
Because any information at all is woke.
This is the idiocracy way.
Thanks for the reminder. Just donated!
Runs platform based on lies and hates platform based on truth. Check notes yeah that about sums it up.
I am a monthly donor to Wikipedia, because I think it's an incredibly important resource. Elon Musk can fuck all the way off.
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!
For those of you with workplace donation platforms, Wikipedia/wikimedia are usually registered and eligible for company match, so is the web archive.
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.
Been a while since I donated. Thanks for the reminder, Elon.
Oh, great reminder, I didn't donate in a few months, gonna send them a lil Santa coffee gift right now.
Well, I wasn't sure about donating this year, this sealed the deal for me. What an asshole.
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?
I am beginning to think Satan will turn out less evil than this monster.
$10 donation coming in hot!
Fight Mythomaniacs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mythomaniac&redirect=no
I'm in with 50.
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
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.
I dunno, doesn't seem like the conservapedia shithole likes elon much either.
So, how many GB to save a complete copy of Wikipedia?
It’s a 19GB download that expands to 86GB for only the current article versions in English
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
Just donated
I'm going to donate even harder now
Donated.
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!