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Gods bless wikipedia and all its editors

Just donated. Thanks for the reminder.

Now this is a puzzle piece I can get behind! Happy quarter-century Wikipedia! - A happy twice monthly donor

Congratulations!

thank you to the tireless volunteers of fandom projects for collectively absorbing jimbo's desire to fuck up wiki sites, and also condolences

Makes the Nazi Elon Musk mad that he can’t control it too 🙌

Hey depths of Wikipedia! I was a fan of yours on Twitter years ago and it's only on seeing this that I'm away you're on here now. I'm so happy to be able to read your posts again and keep up the good work!

wow...receiving early unc status..so glad..

So basically the Bsky comment section 😆

Glad to see people have posted links to donate. Because it is up to us to keep Wikipedia 'unenshittified'. If you haven't donated, now is the perfect opportunity!

🥳🎂👏

what a beautiful 3d render

principle counts.

[Citation needed].

Love wikipedia and give annually to their funding campaigns. This is such an important resource especially as the quality of online info becomes more ideologically and diluted. Words I never thought I would be typing....

Apologies for the autocorrect apostrophe

happy birthday to a website that should never have been forced into being political and yet there are people out there that feel that it threatens their illegitimate rule so they fight it

Happy birthday to the only good website anymore.

Mostly not enshittified? Partially not enshittified?

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Check the comments on that. The headline is misleading.

How is it the worst possible one?

I remember reading the proposed concept and thinking "that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard - that will never work - who is going to put time and effort into that?" and I'm super happy to be dead wrong. Amazing work everybody.

Wikipedia and Reddit have managed to remain mostly supported and engaged with what’s left of those of us that aren’t mushed brain scrollers

But it’s lost credibility. It’s been tarnished.

a lot of the time 'in theory' seems to mean 'in a perfect world where everyone agrees about everything that's important'

that logo variant actually looks awesome ngl

Makes sense -- if you bought it, it wouldn't be volunteer labor.

They're charging to be scraped. They'll be scraped with or without permission, so at least they can get some money out of it.

Give it time, trump will attack it too

They are not "licensing" deals. They make no changes, and grant no exceptions, to Wikipedia's existing licence terms

... Don't tell me that. Don't tell me I'm as old as Wikipedia. I am barely older than Wikipedia by over seven months.

unironically fond memories of my high school librarian who famously said wikipedia was the devil's handmaiden, and now it's the last reliable source on the internet

It would be nice if ad supported websites could function, but that whole market fell apart years ago. That's part of why Wikipedia is so singular.

It’s a hell of a service they offer. It’s used by people from all walks of life to get an understanding of any topic under the sun.

P.S. Did not know about that Spanish fork. Thanks. A starting link, for others: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spanish...

Congrats. And thanks 2!

Well... despite everything, I am still glad at Wikipedia. So much joy perusing history through that! I'd trust it a great deal more than fucking AI!

I will consider wikipedia to work in practice once they add a page on the phenomenon of "object shows" like battle for dream island or the power of two

the thing with wikipedia is that everything is already licensed for everyone by the contributors themselves, which means the foundation can't meaningfully sell it (they can't even lift the attribution requirement) they seem to just be charging for high-volume api access and tech support

I love you Wikipedia ❤️

A quarter of a century! Time flies.

I remember first hearing about the site. When I checked it out, it seemed like they had a page for everything. It was almost 20 years ago when I edited the page for Zangief. Yeah, my edits are long gone now, though I wish they had retained some details.

The last bastion of the old, good Internet.

$10 a month. Everyone who used it should do that.

Always support Wikipedia with a yearly gift! 💙😃💰

Yes! Peak!

thank god for autism

<3

I discovered a wiki for the first time trying to figure out what was going on with I Love Bees. 🐝

Glued together by “Um actually”

I'm not wild about anything in the AI craze, but they're going to train on Internet content and better that it be Wikipedia than anything else. Might as well do it in a way that benefits Wikipedia.

LLMs are trained on the entire content of the open web. Wikipedia gets scraped just because it's in that category.

speaking as an exhausted member of a tech team who's had to ban entire countries because the AI bots were harvesting thousands of websites on our university infrastructure without even pretending to pay us for load or content: channeling the bots and making them pay is the best available outcome

This is GOOD news. They will get paid for their content.

Youngster 😏

I donate every year! Thank you!

Wikipedia is phenomenal.

"Powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other" made me laugh so hard.

We're not all autistic! I'm not! Now, back to editing every plant articles because I enjoy it and not because being incomplete offends me on molecular level.

HELL YEAH

I gotta start doing that

Happy biryhdY!!! 🌹🍾🎊🎉

Paying supporter for at least 20 of those 25 years, dramatically increased my contributions starting last year

Craigslist still exists so not the last enshittified major website

CoolStory..... so what's with the news report that I just saw about you fuckers making a deal with Ai...?

wish they would do something about the digital book burners running rampant on wikipedia, fuck the guerilla skeptics for falsifying history

Amen! Here's our @thisdaypod.com episode on the fateful decision by wikipedia many years ago to go non-profit. With special guest @vermontgmg.bsky.social --> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Discard the theory.

I'll use this as an opportunity to plug my buddy's dissertation. "A theoretical approach to legitimizing collaboratively constructed knowledge: a content analysis of Wikipedia science articles based on accidental collaboration" digscholarship.unco.edu/dissertation...

Bad news for Leonardo DiCaprio.

We love you! Good job!

$8/month for over a decade.

ILY Wikipedia 🥹

bsky.app/profile/dyng... wikipedia polotically is purely enshittified, the editors aren't unpaid, rather they are paid by qatar