Ohhh lets go all give money to wikipedia… hey jim wales said “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” ooohhh when he says beautiful stuff like that … gawd that just brings a single tear down my face, they really must need money, i just have a tiny bit of a problem with this (actually have many… and told them already with wikipedia sucks ) so i’ll just work on that late post, wikipedia doesn’t just suck, they suck balls..
The “traditional” encyclopedia is a bunch of paid experts that give their insight into subjects that they are, well, experts of, so its a form of elitist knowledge, i have no problem with that, you get what you pay for… but wikipedia was different, at first its was a truly free for all like jimmy said of a sort of sum of all human knowledge… i’ll repeat ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, but what we have now with wikipedia is the sum of knowledge of a very restrict group of people, really! try and open a new article or add something to any article and check it out, its fucking idiotic, no new user can really add anything of relevance to wikipedia… its like a reversed britannica, but at least with britannica i have some assurance of quality and expertise and not a bunch of anonymous users that just cause they can point some article on the web to prove their point then apparently it is the truth or that after they did some months of grunt work or troll that they now are apparently experts on shit, and yes… wikipedia loves shit, ohh you wont find cover bands or new up and coming music acts or obscure tribes in amazon, but sure as hell you can know the entire storyline of a single pokemon character and crossover characters and that ohhh so sad obscure never before shown episode were psyduck is gutted by pikachu, yeah i want some of that sweet wikipedia knowledge… yum yum
And what about the wikipedia foundation… laundering money are we? if not, at least its the same group of idiotic morons that want to get paid, the last time i checked you don’t need a foundation and a board of directors to keep the site online you don’t need all this bureaucracy to make something shine, the people that contribute also help run… what’s the fuck with that, its simple, they need the catchy name and foundation(tm) so they can skip on taxes to get more respectability to get more donations and to get themselves some money’s… or something like that, its fucking shady as hell and even if wikipedia foundation was a wonderful foundation, wikipedia would still fuck balls, my recommendation… make donations with your credit card and then make charge backs stating that you donated with the understanding that all human knowledge was on wikipedia and they made you donate under false pretenses….. fuckers
I don’t get it… And I don’t get the people who do….
no worries its all good ^_^
As you said, man. If you are new there and add anything to wikipedia, they will delete it 5 min later. Do they really need all that money ? I’m sure they don’t.
yeah, no point adding or editing anything, everything goes to trash in wikipedia, its like when they were small everyone was welcome and now that they are pretty big and have lots of articles you get a “thank fuck you”, nice, well fuck you too ^_^
Suckers donate to Wikipedia. Wikipedia/Wikimedia is a non-profit. They get government grants, and even get funding by companies to keep their pages from being edited by the masses. Private companies pay in to this brain trust. Jimbo Wales also holds a PHD in finance… Why would a guy who has a phd in finance beg for donations? He’s struggled with money and now he’s hit the big time. Wikimedia makes billions a year and still you fools give him your hard earned money. Sadly, it’s the snake oil salesmen who make all the money in this world.
i wouldn’t say wikipedia makes billions a year, since its a non-profit it has to disclose their accounts (unlike a private company), but yeah you are right, come on, the bigger the website the cheaper it is to run, economies of scale, i think their constant donation drives are to fund new projects and to push wikipedia (jimbo’s) agenda, they are always crying that they need the money or wikipedia might die or have publicity, shit… they have pleanty, what they want is more, while they can get it… and yes a nonprofit barely pays taxes or not at all, so nice money laundering scheme…
what has wikipedia done for me? oh wait, right… deleted all my contributions, provided biased information, promoted themselves as the authority online so every fucking search everyone comes up with wikipedia first (when a lot of those the sites or queries are way better answered elsewhere)… yeah fuck wikipedia…
wikipedia is shit man… all the information there is very unaccurate… i used it when i was in highschool… now i`m in univ and wikipedia is considered as a fail condition to projects.