Elon Musk Urged People to Stop Donating to Wikipedia. Here's Why
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Calling the free online collaborative encyclopedia "Wokepedia," Musk said it should "restore balance" to its "editing authority."

Calling the free online collaborative encyclopedia “Wokepedia,” Musk said it should “restore balance” to its “editing authority.”

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  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    403·
    8 days ago

    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

        • Evotech@lemmy.world
          42·
          7 days ago

          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

          • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            that’s a good point, bandwidth is pretty expensive and wikipedia probably serves mondobytes more than archive.org, per whatever time unit.
            my guess is they’re still better funded and archive.org actually needs more money… also that musk talking shit about wikipedia is just going to drive up donations… the overlap between musk haters and wikipedia donors is probably pretty big…. especially compared to musk loafer lickers and wikipedia donors.
            ….
            i still think the internet archive is more crucial to democracy and human freedom because without it we get closer to a 1984 memory hole where old stories that don’t make certain institutions look good are burned away.
            a lot of times what people change in public is very telling of what they want to keep secret….
            accountability and such….
            but if i were going to donate to two charities it would be both of them, probably about equally.
            ….