Elon Muskwho bought the social network last year Tweet and changed the name to Xwants to do something similar Wikipedia, the virtual encyclopedia. The tech mogul assured that he would donate a billion dollars to the platform if its name was changed to ‘Dickipedia’ (which would translate into Spanish as Penepedia).

Musk’s controversial suggestion came from a request for donations from The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia. The Tesla CEO questioned whether the portal needs more money, asking his followers on X to question why he was asking for donations.

“There is certainly no need to exploit Wikipedia. You can literally put a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what is the money for? Inquiring minds want to knowMusk asked.

Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) platform has already started charging $1 per year for posting and other basic features

It is not the first time that Elon Musk and Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, debates on the Internet. Musk has already made it clear that he doubts the reliability of the articles published on the portal, while Wales accuses him of restricting freedom of expression on his social network.

The discussion did not escalate, but Wales will certainly not accept the proposal to change the name Wickipedia to Dickipedia.

X begins removing links to articles to improve the aesthetics of the feed and reduce clickbait

What is Wikipedia?

Since its launch in 2001, this website has functioned as a digital encyclopedia completely free, fueled by contributions from other users.

Currently, The portal has more than 61 million articles in 333 languages. Almost every known definition, event, place or person is on Wikipedia.

The importance of copyright and intellectual property for digital content creators

According to Wikimedia, articles are collaboratively created and edited by a community of volunteers using trusted sources, so that no single person or company owns a Wikipedia article.

The Wikimedia Foundationthe foundation that runs Wikipedia also develops 13 joint knowledge projects from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, to Wikidata, a structured dataset and more.

It also maintains the servers, creates the software and designs the technology that keeps these projects running, according to the website.

These projects are supported by donationswhich, according to the foundation, invests in supporting communities of volunteers around the world.

(JO)