Elon Musk made a joke on social media platform X, offering a billion dollars to Wikipedia if they changed their name to “Dickipedia.”
Musk criticized Wikipedia for its freely editable system and questioned the Wikimedia Foundation’s frequent appeals for donations.
He compared Wikipedia to X’s information correction function called “Community Notes,” which relies on user submissions and votes. (Trending: Joe Biden Does the Unthinkable For Hamas)
Elon Musk offers $1 billion to Wikipedia if it changes its name https://t.co/MfYH3JIkZj pic.twitter.com/h8lE0BKpx9
— The Hill (@thehill) October 24, 2023
“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia,” he wrote on X.
“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 is inherently hierarchical and therefore subject to the biases of higher ranking editors, independent of their merits,” Musk wrote on Monday.
Musk compared and contrasted Wikipedia to X’s information correction function known as “Community Notes.”
“@CommunityNotes requires people with historically different points of view, based on how they have rated and written Notes, to agree in order for Notes to be shown to the public,” Musk continued. (Trending: Biden Official Caught Working For Terrorists)
“All code and data is open source, so you can recreate the outcome yourself.”
Should I buy Wikipedia and delete it?
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/o9GzKf4O5L
— Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) October 23, 2023
Musk highlighted the open-source nature of Community Notes and its independence from his control as the company’s controlling shareholder.
“Crucially, even I, as the controlling shareholder of the company, cannot change the outcome of a Note. This is an extremely fundamental difference,” he added.
“Should I buy Wikipedia and delete it?” Musk asked his followers. “What do you think?”
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