It’s not about keeping the servers running. Wikipedia is not your friendly hacker collective that needs to just have some machines to run their wiki on. I’m not saying you shouldn’t critize them, that’s important-- but please do it on an informed basis. There is lots of misinformation and framing out there, that’s literally what Musk is doing.
I recently saw a thing about how many hundreds of millions (… billions?) wikipedia get, and how it’d be enough to keep wikipedia running for however many centuries… was it maybe in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3YZYEERhn8 amidst other grievances? [Edit: if it wasn’t in that, doubtless dozens of other vids on it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+donations+exposed ]
Puts a different context and feels on that message, huh?
U-huh.
Because the gatekeepers know best. Trust them. Pay no attention to the fallibility, conflicts of interest, censorship, etc etc etc.
It’s not about keeping the servers running. Wikipedia is not your friendly hacker collective that needs to just have some machines to run their wiki on. I’m not saying you shouldn’t critize them, that’s important-- but please do it on an informed basis. There is lots of misinformation and framing out there, that’s literally what Musk is doing.