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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I donated to Wikipedia, today. A few bucks to a very valuable site.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wikipedia should run a fund raiser: "Give us a billion dollars or we'll change the name."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Donate today or else!

$1b = Wikipedia

< $1b = W

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, he'd call it X again, like literally every other company he's tried that with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A porn enciclopedia...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

But for only $8 a month you are the only one who’s allowed to edit your site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is not the Achilles heel of free access to information. The Achilles heel are the sources: libraries, websites.

Consider donating to the internet archive instead or as well. If the sources are poisoned, Wikipedia just repeats bullshit. It's secondary literature.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure you know what Achilles heel means

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

An Achilles' heel[1] (or Achilles heel[2][3]) is a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to downfall.

Source: Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A few years ago, I set up a monthly donation. Of all things I can use for free on the internet, Wikipedia deserves it the most.