Calling the free online collaborative encyclopedia “Wokepedia,” Musk said it should “restore balance” to its “editing authority.”
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You know what I’m gonna donate even harder now
i look forward to reading the near-future headline “wikipedia sees surge in donations”
I already donated for the first tine recently. I guess I could smell the impending winds. But this overt mandate may be what pushes me past one time into regular scheduled donations.
I did it. $5.65/mo.
Do I get $5.65/mo out of wikipedia? I don’t having a fucking clue how to value the knowledge I get out of it, so I’ll say yes.
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Wikepedia is good
But archive.org is in more dire need of resources
English Wikipedia = 100GB (without the videos)
archive.org has like TERABYTES with some reports of it being in PETABYTES, storage is costly, also they need to backup the archive in case of drive failures
also they need bandwidth to let people access the stuff there
also they just gotten hacked a few months ago, security could cost money
And constantly facing lawsuit from big corporation, lawsuits definitely cost a lot of money
I feel like they need it more
What I’m saying is: if you have $55 to give, give $5 to wikipedia, $50 to archive.org
I’m pretty sure Wikipedia serves WAY WAY more content than archive.org
Space on disk isn’t everything
All of Wikipedia is on the Internet archive. Including history of articles and images
And how many people do you think uses either on a daily basis
Wikipedia is the 7# most visited website in the world
Archive.org is like #200
Sure, but Wikipedia is used a whole lot more.
Storage is very cheap, and should not be used as a metric for how much money an organization needs.
Anyone can edit Wikipedia but archive.org is a snapshot of history
I try to donate a few bucks every year to Wikipedia … my thinking is that if every person that uses Wikipedia just donated a dollar, they would have more than enough to fund their organization.
But after reading these stupid headlines … I made a $50 donation for the first time. I use the site just about every day for reference … I should be paying for it and I’m happy to.
