Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
Behind the X owner’s trolling is a years long obsession with the internet’s favorite encyclopedia, says Depths of Wiki creator Annie Rauwerda.
Whatever, it is already trash.
it is very biased despite claiming to be objective but its a very useful tool. much more so than Twitter.
ok I have probably learned more about the world from Wikipedia than any other source, yeah it's not good for political issues but let's not pretend like Wikipedia is not the internet's single greatest accomplishment: fully decentralized, free information sharing and education on an unlimited scale.
Also the scientific, mathematical, biological, etc. articles are usually like textbook-level.
As long as you remember that it is an encyclopedia then I think it's actually pretty good. Yes, lots of the pages about contemporary political issues are full of CIA-posting, but you really shouldn't be trying to get your political news (or understanding of theory) from an encyclopedia in the first place. That's not what they're for. Similarly, I think it's fine that most of the articles aren't written at much more than an undergraduate textbook level of sophistication. Again, if you want expert-level specialized knowledge about a complex topic, an encyclopedia shouldn't be your go-to in the first place.
I think Wikipedia is fine, and I agree that it's one of the few good things that remains on the internet: it is advertiser free, not paywalled, not run for profit, and freely accessible. It certainly has a strong
bias, and the fact that people on 
will take it as the gospel truth about literally everything is incredibly stupid, but if you treat it as the very general tertiary source that encyclopedias are intended to be, it's fine. This is one of my 
views that's out of step with what seems to be the Hexbear consensus.
It's not good for politics but it's good for reading about science and animals most of the time
How so?
It considers CIA propaganda fronts legitimate sources and in general questionable sources, like random articles from businessinsider dot com, are accepted as citations when the article is about something
considers ”bad”. It's also known that the US government is involved in heavy astroturfing. We don't call it NATOpedia for nothing.When it comes to heated political topics it is not very impartial, due to the opinions of the powerusers.
I agree that for a lot of stuff it is very useful, but still.
true but wiggapedia can still get a lot worse
If this manages to gut wikipedia's credibility on politics and history without harming its good information in other fields, it would actually be an excellent turn of events.
“Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane! Btw, can someone please delete ‘investor’. I do basically zero investing,”
finance imperialists are afraid
How can he even say that? If he has any sort of financial managers, he's doing investments. Knowing Musk I doubt he's paying close attention to his finances but if he's anywhere close to the wealth he claims to be, then a lot of that is probably tied up in things like securities, bonds, partial ownership over various companies.
He might be saying he doesn't devote any of his personal time to deciding what to invest in. Ok, so like most billionaire parasites.
There's already Conservapedia, what more does he want?
Hell, why does he care about Wikipedia when most people WANT to believe what conservapedia says so badly?
Wikipedia is promoted by Google, etc., so he naturally wants what people see to be flattering to him, like how he spent a massive fortune to force Twitter users to read his tweets.
He spent 44 billion dollars just to own the libs. Do-gooder derogation is one hell of a drug.
Elon, stay the fuck away.
You have gotten involved in a few things now and some are good, some are questionable ....
But if you put your hands on Wikipedia... with the same goals as Twitter... you will have a really hard time turning your legacy to something we will have fond memories of.
some are good
doubt
Lmao if you think the fascist billionaire cares how you remember him
He does care in some way though, otherwise he wouldnt have bought twitter
uh what on earth
everybody, come look. we finally found the guy who loves that their Tesla can make fart sounds
is there specifically a reason you're licking his ass as you type this
Why are you acting like there is anything redeemable about this man?
So this is why all the schoolteachers told us all to not use Wikipedia when we had to write essays
