Elon Musk urges supporters not to donate to Wikipedia after it spent $50M on DEI: ‘Wokepedia’

[rangerrebew]

Elon Musk urges supporters not to donate to Wikipedia after it spent $50M on DEI: ‘Wokepedia’
Story by Ariel Zilber • 16h


Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

“Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority,” Musk wrote Tuesday on X, where he has nearly 210 million followers.
 
The Tesla mogul, and key adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, was responding to a post by the right-leaning commentator “Libs of TikTok,” who shared a pie chart that showed 29% of Wikipedia’s $177 million budget for 2023-24 was targeted for “equity” and “safety & inclusion.“
 
The Wikimedia Foundation site said that it set a goal of spending $51.7 million in its budget: 17.6% ($31.2 million) on equity, and 11.6% ($20.5 million) on safety and inclusion. Infrastructure got the bulk of the $177 million with 48.7% ($86.1 million), followed by 22.2% ($39.2 million) on effectiveness.

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[Kamaji]

Never have, and at this rate, never will. 

[Timber Rattler]

Yeah, Wiki's an OK source to use for quick look-ups on basic history matters but it is garbage for modern political and biographical research.  The pre-approved master editors are all commie and shut down any dissent or attempts at good faith correction.  Back in 2020, I tried to update the Wiki page of an up and coming politician who was a retired U.S. Army officer, and the editors refused to allow me to include all his service medals (despite standard practice for other prominent veterans), claiming that they could not be verified, even though he's clearly wearing them on his final pre-retirement official U.S. Army photograph.  They then banned me as a "sock puppet," which was a gross lie.

So yeah, screw Wikipedia.