If Musk bought Wikipedia I would demand my yearly donation refunded.
There is enough nazi information on Wikipedia already, the educational and informative kind of info that lets you see how bad nazis are.
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Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hasn’t he learned anything from Wikia/Fandom?
The WoWWiki and RuneScape Wiki communities ditched Wikia due to them plastering the fuck out of their wikis with tonnes of intrusive ads.
Heck, the WoW community had to ditch Wowpedia (WoWWiki’s successor) to found a new wiki because Gamepedia was bought out by Fandom, the company that Wikia eventually became. Fandom ended up pulling the exact same shit soon after.
Musk buying Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Founfatiom would end in financial disaster. Nothing would be stopping people from jumping ship to an alternative.
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 11 months ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Just wanted to note that Jagex does not host the 2 wikis, but they provide funding, domains and some other stuff but Weird Gloob is fully responsible for the wiki’s and servers it’s running on.
Corporate_Hippie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He can’t just buy a foundation, it’s a non-profit not a company.