Well, I wasn’t sure about donating this year, this sealed the deal for me. What an asshole.
Wikipedia also has some neat merch, for those who want to support the project and also get some cool gear
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 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!
not much, but it helps
God what a fucking moron
I am beginning to think Satan will turn out less evil than this monster.
I am a monthly donor to Wikipedia, because I think it’s an incredibly important resource. Elon Musk can fuck all the way off.
Wikipedia and it’s brethren, sharing knowledge are the planet best hopeas a greatbequalizer. We are at the information age, information is power just as much as iron and steam have been in the past.
“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~” 🎶
Advertisers who don’t want to give me money after I literally told them to fuck off
“How can someone I told to fuck off don’t want to give me money!? That’s literally communism!!”
Donated.
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.
So, how many GB to save a complete copy of Wikipedia?
You can always get the book version.
27 pages on Gwen Stefani alone!
I have some room but not that much.
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
22.64 GiB for the English version without edit history or media files
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia
It’s a 19GB download that expands to 86GB for only the current article versions in English
a new popular front is forming:
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.
My God, this is amazing.
“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.
You mean the orange man’s hog? I think it’s more the other way around.
True?
No, but I’m guessing it will be if this news spreads.
I’m hoping that too 🤞
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.
Never donated before today. Thanks elon I guess 👍
Me neither but just did.
Thanks for the reminder. Just donated!
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.
