The sum of some human knowledge. Wikipedia is strongly west-biased in its content, and more explicitly anglo-biased. There’s loads of information it hasn’t even an inkling of.
Note: this is not Wikipedia’s fault. I’m just addressing the “all human knowledge” thing that people keep using when describing Wikipedia. It’s not.
Well in China Baidu has Baike, but it doesn’t get a lot of contribution. (Part of it, but only part, is that contributions are gatekept pretty strongly to keep in line with content laws.)
Which is actually where donating to them can help. They fund editathons, outreach efforts, events, and conferences, some of which explicitly focus on getting information into Wikipedia from underrepresented areas or people.
The sum of some human knowledge. Wikipedia is strongly west-biased in its content, and more explicitly anglo-biased. There’s loads of information it hasn’t even an inkling of.
Note: this is not Wikipedia’s fault. I’m just addressing the “all human knowledge” thing that people keep using when describing Wikipedia. It’s not.
Is there any equivalent in non-Western countries?
Well in China Baidu has Baike, but it doesn’t get a lot of contribution. (Part of it, but only part, is that contributions are gatekept pretty strongly to keep in line with content laws.)
(If I’d have wanted to be a smartass, I would have replied “yes, they’re called ‘libraries’”. See how I was careful to be a not-smartass? 🤣)
Appreciated!
Which is actually where donating to them can help. They fund editathons, outreach efforts, events, and conferences, some of which explicitly focus on getting information into Wikipedia from underrepresented areas or people.
If there were channels available to, my money would be going to them annually in a subscription. So no argument here.
Smells like an opportunity to me!
If you go all in and work really hard, I bet you could make 10 of dollars. Maybe even 20 over time.