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It's odd how people pretend to "support" Wikipedia but seem opposed to it's goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective https://en.wikipedia

It's odd how people pretend to "support" Wikipedia but seem opposed to it's goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective So, when people talk about Wikipedia being completely funded and not needing more money, they are lying. Flat out lying. Rather, they are saying "Wikipedia has enough money to serve me, everyone else doesn't matter." Wikipedia's goals (which have been well-published and posted for a long, long time now) aren't just about a website. It's about giving everyone free access the sum of all human knowledge. In 2008, Jimmy Wales said this: "'to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language,' that's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal." It's not just to "Host a wiki, which for the majority of people here, they think that's the purpose." When they fundraise, it's for the entire mission. And until everyone has access to the sum of all human knowledge, they are still running short. As for these groups, they all fit with that goal, of getting people access to this information, of providing information, of achieving that goal. Feel free to disagree with their goal, but stop lying and pretending it has enough money. It doesn't, since it hasn't achieved its mission yet. The only thing you are saying when you say they are lying is that you got yours, everyone else can suffer.

laserdancepony 3y ago
$100,000 USD to Data for Black Lives, United States Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and scientists committed to the mission of using data to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. They will use the grant in part to launch a Movement Scientists Fellowship matching racial justice leaders with machine learning research engineers to develop data-based machine learning applications to drive change in the areas of climate, genetics, and economic justice. Yeah right, that does not sound janky at all. "It's all about knowledge." I think you have internalized too much of their PR recently.

laserdancepony 3y ago

$100,000 USD to Data for Black Lives, United States Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and scientists committed to the mission of using data to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. They will use the grant in part to launch a Movement Scientists Fellowship matching racial justice leaders with machine learning research engineers to develop data-based machine learning applications to drive change in the areas of climate, genetics, and economic justice. Yeah right, that does not sound janky at all. "It's all about knowledge." I think you have internalized too much of their PR recently.