Posted on 10/23/2023 3:29:04 PM PDT by RandFan
Billionaire Elon Musk offered Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, $1 billion under the condition that it changes its name to “Dickipedia.”
The owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, wrote his offer in a post on his site. He had previously posted a screenshot of a personal appeal from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales stating that the website is “not for sale.”
“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” Musk wrote.
“Please add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page,” he continued in another post. “In the interests of accuracy.”
When one user, journalist Ed Krassenstein, suggested the online encyclopedia take the deal, saying that it can “can always change it back after you collect,” Musk added a condition to his offer.
“One year minimum. I mean, I’m a not fool lol,” he wrote.
Musk had made multiple posts earlier Sunday criticizing the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, for asking for money.
“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia,” he wrote on X. “You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”
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lol
Wikipedia flat out said that they needed donations so that “a few billionaires like Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch” didn’t control information. I must have missed that in this article. The left is still unhinged over Fox, lol.
Wikipedia is always begging for donations, like some lame public radio station.
Take him up on the offer.
I’ve I was the CEO, I’d take it, change the name and then sell the company.
Does Wiki have open books?
Musk has come under withering criticism in some quarters for misinformation on X since he purchased the platform and instituted a number of changes.
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It’s only “withering” because Rachael Scully and The Hill are far left lefties and are trying to run some interference for Wikipedia against MUSK. I use Wiki but have stopped reading countless articles due to their “withering” bias.
If we insult you, Elon, will you give JimRob a billion dollars to rename Free Republic?
It’s so fantastic that the richest man in the world is also one of the world’s greatest trolls.
I have used them to get the storyline of a movie. I don’t trust them with history or politics.
“Wikipedia is always begging for donations,
like some lame public radio station. “
Or how about some lame politicians
Or how about some lame Multi-Billionaires
Or how about most politicians
Supposedly Wikipedia is groupsourced knowledge, anybody can edit it. Except for propaganda. Someone ( the “IC”? political operatives?) has captured all the politically relevant articles with a fulltime staff.
Stay with me. I hate memorizing randomly generated passwords that have to be changed frequently, and also dont like to record them om a computer or write then down, so I used to memorize equations and constants by converting them to a passphrase and extracting characters and digits to make a password. This way I committed something worth remembering to memory instead of garbage.
So I was going to memorize of the value gas constant R for a password, and not having a reference handy I looked it up on wikipedia. Surely that number is uncontroversial right?
As I read it I realized the value in Wikipedia had to be wrong, because I noticed it was different digits in different units when it should be the same except for a power of ten. (like cgs vs mks).
I looked into the change history, and the middle digit was changed by an edit by an editor with a Chinese sounding name and an ip address that I reverse traced to the Hewlett-Packard campus in the valley.
So my thoughts;
1. can’t even trust physical constants on Wikipedia
2. It could be the usual: censorship and brainwashing,
It could be digital vandalism,
or It could be spycraft, like dead drop indicators (chalk on a sign or rock).
Elon Musk doesn’t need to fund a CIA front group.
Alex, I’ll take “can’t even trust physical constants on Wikipedia” for $100!
Copy all their files....get many real named experts to edit out the opinions and lies.. Market under license or buy it outright. Not knowing the editors is one reason why I don’t contribute.
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