The real "Woke Mind Virus" is the one affecting this weird dude, seriously.

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~" 🎶
- Advertisers who don't want to give me money after I literally told them to fuck off

"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.
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.
True?
- No, but I'm guessing it will be if this news spreads.

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

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

Because any information at all is woke.

This is the idiocracy way.

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.

Time to donate

After reading your coment I've donated 10 euro ; )
- Same
I had been clicking past the donate reminder so far this year. Thanks for the reminder to get it done today before the new year.

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.

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

Did they start banning corporate and government mass editors?

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

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

Me too

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

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

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?

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

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

$10 donation coming in hot!

Can we have some context for that picture?
- Streisand effect
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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.

Thanks for the reminder. Just donated!

Dude has Resting Sauhagin Face.

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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
You can always get the book version.
27 pages on Gwen Stefani alone!
- I have some room but not that much.
22.64 GiB for the English version without edit history or media files
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia

Fight Mythomaniacs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mythomaniac&redirect=no

I'm in with 50.

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.

Donated.

I pay my $25 a year

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

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

Xelon is nothing but a drug addict, and he's fuckin' nutzzz!

God what a fucking moron

I'm going to donate even harder now

Just donated

You know what? I'm upping my monthly donation.

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

Everything counts!

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!

These millionaires may or may not do anything for Wikipedia.
They don’t make profit, there is no risk of “over donating”
- The risk is that they vote for higher salaries for themselves! They already earn way more than most people!

A while ago he offered to donate something like $100 million to Wikipedia if they changed their name to dickipedia...

Seems like for that price someone could write a custom hi that only shows for that one guy. Heck, we could crowd source an entire nazi version that only shows to that one guy

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

What's the controversy? I mean from what I see, it's a bit pushy, but you only see it if you use Wikipedia

Cia and fbi does regularly edit wikipedia. Old Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/cia-and-fbi-computers-used-for-wikipedia-edits-idUSN16428960/

Honestly doesn't seem like a big deal to me. The concept behind Wikipedia is that it is a self correcting community. There was never a chance no one contributing would have ulterior motives, but that doesn't mean it has a lasting or large impact.
- The methods that Wikipedia uses to determine appropriate sources and correcting "bad edits" is highly susceptible to status quo bias from it's home country. This means that Wikipedia has a very heavy bias towards history from a US perspective. In most situations, it doesn't really matter. However if you're trying to look into political research (or anything else controversial) it's a very poor tool. Governments love this setup, because this knowledge manipulation seems innocuous until it isn't.
  Edit: since it seems folks are already a couple mugs of eggnog deep, I'd like to clarify my point. There are legitimate and worthwhile criticisms of Wikipedia, but none worthy of mass defunding. We shouldn't let some fascist like Musk control the conversation.
- The cia and fbi don't have a lasting or large impact...? Are you high?
Relevance to the conversation at hand?