Every so often I give a few bucks(far less than the worth of knowledge I got from it)

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
    hexbear
    15
    10 months ago

    It has an abominable political slant, so absolutely not. If there was a way to split the science/math/etc. segment from the rest of it, that one would totally be worth donating to.

    • @bjornp_@lemm.ee
      hexbear
      4
      10 months ago

      Could you elaborate? I've never heard of that. Although I don't donate to Wikipedia now.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
        hexbear
        14
        10 months ago

        That can be a touchy subject because the slant of Wikipedia and the slant of Reddit are very similar, but with Reddit leaning more towards chasing frivolous headlines and Wikipedia leaning more towards, like, rehabilitating Nazis and the like. The short version is that Wikipedia is far to the right of consensus among even neoliberal historians on many subjects and you will see things treated as plain there that are relatively fringe views academically.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      2
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Organizationally it’s had leadership with abominable politics. Jimmy Wales is a self-proclaimed libertarian. Katherine Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, then joined The Atlantic Council, and currently serves on the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. [edit: apostrophe’s]