Wikipedia in dire straights?

[Kingcreek]

Followed a link to wiki and was greeted with an urgent plea for donations. Thought that both interesting and inevitable.

[BobR]

That happens every year, usually starting in November sometime, trying to fund themselves for the next year.

bob

[Unisaw]

^^^^^. What Bob said.

[Ben]

What Bob and Unisaw said. 

[makattak]

No, but Dire Staits is in Wikipedia.

[zahc]

Wikipedia could be funded for centuries with current donations. The Wikimedia foundation is what sucks all the money away on BS that nobody cares about. Of course, they make sure to confuse the donors and imply the donation will be going to maintain Wikipedia, when in reality it will go to fund a bunch of "advocacy".

[230RN]

No, but Dire Staits is in Wikipedia.

Thank you.  That was going to drive me nuts for a couple of hours. :)

Damned homophones or whatever you call them.

Meme, related, been looking for an excuse to use it:

"Spellcheck is my worst enema."

[bedlamite]

"Smellcheck is my worst enema."

FTFY

[Perd Hapley]

Kingcreek discovers the internets, everybody!

[Perd Hapley]

Thank you.  That was going to drive me nuts for a couple of hours. :)

Damned homophones or whatever you call them.

Meme, related, been looking for an excuse to use it:

"Spellcheck is my worst enema."

You deplorable homophonaphobe.

[Ron]

I use the Infogalactic fork of Wiki.

Infogalactic isn’t controlled by people who hate me and heritage America like Wikipedia.

Wiki is overrun with leftist propaganda and narratives.

As a fork most of it still mirrors Wikipedia. As people migrate to it and edit out biases or at least edit it to more accurately present information it will become a better tool.


https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page

[Pb]

I use the Infogalactic fork of Wiki.

Infogalactic isn’t controlled by people who hate me and heritage America like Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, Infogalactic was created by Theodore Beale (Vox Day).  Beale is a loathesome admirer of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the murderous dictator Pinochet, and all around white nationalist *hole.

Documentation:
His storefront featuring Pinochet shirts:
https://crypto.fashion/collections/political/products/pinochet-face-mens-t-shirt

White nationalist *hole:
https://infogalactic.com/info/16_Points_of_the_Alt_Right

His St. Breivik article:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/05/mailvox-breivik-saint-or-monster.html

If you are looking for information vetted by a loathesome swine, Infogalactic is the right place.

[Kingcreek]

Kingcreek discovers the internets, everybody!

Yeah, I seldom have any reason to wiki and even less reason to follow digital source trends.
I don’t have tv cable dish or even dialup modem at home. Just my iPhone and the smallest data plan Verizon offers. I’m on computers or workstations all day then I happily come home to a very peaceful and secluded house in a wooded valley on a one lane road. We did get electricity a fews years back so at least I can recharge my phone.

[Ron]

Unfortunately, Infogalactic was created by Theodore Beale (Vox Day).  Beale is a loathesome admirer of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the murderous dictator Pinochet, and all around white nationalist *hole.

Documentation:
His storefront featuring Pinochet shirts:
https://crypto.fashion/collections/political/products/pinochet-face-mens-t-shirt

White nationalist *hole:
https://infogalactic.com/info/16_Points_of_the_Alt_Right

His St. Breivik article:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/05/mailvox-breivik-saint-or-monster.html

If you are looking for information vetted by a loathesome swine, Infogalactic is the right place.

And Wikipedia is better how?

Vox Day has no editorial control over the content of Infogalactic.

You may edit it for correction and you won’t be overruled by progressives.

[MillCreek]

No, but Dire Staits is in Wikipedia.

[accuracy]Straits[/accuracy]

[makattak]

[accuracy]Straits[/accuracy]

Curses, I read it the way I meant to type it.

[230RN]

[accuracy]Straits[/accuracy]

Thanks.  I didn't realize Dire Straits was a rock band.  I assumed the link that was offered by makattak was to an explanation of the expression "dire straits."  Wrong.

[makattak]

Thanks.  I didn't realize Dire Straits was a rock band.  I assumed the link that was offered was to an explanation of the expression "dire straits."  Wrong.

That isn't in wikipedia. You have to go to a dictionary for that, and it's not as funny as reversing his statement.

[Kingcreek]

Great band with the early but even then amazingly talented Mark Knoffler(sp?)

[Ben]

Great band with the early but even then amazingly talented Mark Knoffler(sp?)

Mark's newer solo stuff is fantastic as well. One of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY00_fQMB0c

[makattak]

Mark's newer solo stuff is fantastic as well. One of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY00_fQMB0c

ANNNNNNNDDDD this is why we all love this place. 

[Perd Hapley]

Thanks.  I didn't realize Dire Straits was a rock band.  I assumed the link that was offered by makattak was to an explanation of the expression "dire straits."  Wrong.

It ain't what you call rock & roll?

[230RN]

Well, I always thought "in dire straights" meant the guy was in need of feminine companionship.

[Hawkmoon]

Unfortunately, Infogalactic was created by Theodore Beale (Vox Day).  Beale is a loathesome admirer of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, the murderous dictator Pinochet, and all around white nationalist *hole.

...

His St. Breivik article:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/05/mailvox-breivik-saint-or-monster.html

If you are looking for information vetted by a loathesome swine, Infogalactic is the right place.

Yikes!

I guess I'll stick with Wikipedia.

[Ron]

Regardless of VD’s involvement in starting up Infogalactic, simply reading how it works and is edited shows the superiority of it over Wikipedia.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Introduction

If we had the inclination we could all start editing and adding articles. It’s a far more open system and yet less tolerant of editorializing than Wiki. If anything it should contain less bs.

If the 2nd amendment crowd made an attempt to correct and eliminate editorializing on Wikipedia there would be heavy pushback.

That just wouldn’t happen at Infogalactic.

Wikipedia is part of the leftist, progressive propaganda media complex. They hate you.

On a side note, VD makes a really strange white nationalist. He is Native American and Mexican IIRC. Not sure how he squares that circle.