“This is not the first time Musk has gone after the site. In December, he posted on X, “Stop donating to Wokepedia.” And that wasn’t even his first bad Wikipedia pun. “I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” he wrote, in an October, 2023, post. It seemed to be an ego thing at first. Musk objected to being described on his page as an “early investor” in Tesla, rather than as a founder, which is how he prefers to be identified, and seemed frustrated that he couldn’t just buy the site. But lately Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that Wikipedia—which, like all encyclopedias, is a tertiary source that relies on original reporting and research done by other media and scholars—is biased against conservatives.”

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      last year was my first time; looking forward to doing it every year now

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        Not sure that I’ll be donating every year, but I also donated for the first time in 2024. Every little bit counts and when I can find the extra money, I’ll send it their way. Also, friendly reminder, it’s possible to download the entire contents of Wikipedia with less than 100GB. It’s just 16GB if compressed.

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                Without converting the download to .pdf there’s no way to know and I don’t know if that’s even possible. The simplest way to download Wikipedia is through Kiwix. The largest download is 109.89GB and is stored in a .zim format so you need to use a specific application like Kiwix to read it, but its free and open source.