Elon Musk is saying he will offer Wikipedia one billion dollars provided it changes its name to D*ckipedia. The Tesla CEO and owner of X said, “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia. Please add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page. In the interests of accuracy.”
One journalist, Ed Krassenstein said that Wikipedia should indeed change its name. “Do it! You can always change it back after you collect.”
Musk says it has to be for one year though as he is not a fool.
The offer basically arose after a tweet where he criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for wanting so much money. “It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know…”
Wikipedia replied that it handles over 25B page views per month and over 44M page edits a month which requires substantial operating costs. In addition Wikimedia Foundation also employs third party financial auditors whose reports are available to the public.
Earlier this year, sometime in May Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales criticized Musk for his decision to restrict certain content on X in the lead up to Turkey’s presidential election. Wikipedia also said that X seems to be more compliant with government requests for censorship and surveillance under Musk.
Wikipedia relies on its pages to be written and maintained by a community of volunteers. The operation requires some $146 million which is spent on product development, design improvements and legal support, as well as training, administration and fundraising.
According to the online encyclopedia out of 46 million accounts some 121,540 have made at least one edit to a page within the last month.
Volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages are called Wikipedians. Anyone can be a Wikipedian by making changes when they find something that can be added or improved.
According to statistics some 59% of Wikipedians are between the ages of 17 and 40 and some 87% of them are male.
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