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March 09, 2014, 10:34:26 PM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world? I can't believe people are helping information get centralized even more.
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roslinpl
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March 09, 2014, 11:47:51 PM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world? I can't believe people are helping information get centralized even more.
Ok but what is wrong for you with Wikipedia? How many times you was happy that Wikipedia exist? How many times it was damn useful for you? A hundred? Thousand? Perhaps. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) But I think donating someone to make him accept BTC is strange way of forcing him to it. I think he should decide without donations. Regards. ♥ BTC
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March 10, 2014, 12:22:02 AM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world? I can't believe people are helping information get centralized even more.
What is wrong with you? Wikipedia isn't centralization CONTROL, it's totally 100% free to everyone. No profits!! Volunteer based! A great cause, one of the best things to result from the internet, and the foundation for the future of a worldwide knowledge-base of humanity.
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March 10, 2014, 12:23:58 AM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world?
Huh? Much information was always centralized in a few major encyclopedias and large publishers' publications! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. So creation of content is being decentralized. It's all open publication license..... Anyone can download the database dump of all the content and share.... And so far, nobody's created any peer-to-peer Distributed Wiki protocol alternative to even try to replace using a centralized website, yet. WP is still a step away from centralization; however.
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roslinpl
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March 10, 2014, 12:36:27 AM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world?
Huh? Much information was always centralized in a few major encyclopedias and large publishers' publications! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. So creation of content is being decentralized. It's all open publication license..... Anyone can download the database dump of all the content and share.... And so far, nobody's created any peer-to-peer Distributed Wiki protocol alternative to even try to replace using a centralized website, yet. WP is still a step away from centralization; however. It is true. And I think centralized info is not a bad thing at all. Kind regards. ♥ BTC
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March 10, 2014, 12:55:44 AM |
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Wikimedia or w/e their corporate name is already told everybody why they can't accept bitcoin, it's because donations need to be tracked through the fiat system to link up identities because of political shenanigans and charity fraud. This is Jimmy Wales' personal bitcoin address which he will just blow on Chateau Petrus so feel free to donate to a millionaire for no reason at all
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March 10, 2014, 01:05:57 AM |
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Huh? Much information was always centralized in a few major encyclopedias and large publishers' publications! Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. So creation of content is being decentralized.
So you're saying that because information was always centralized, it's good to keep it centralized? And you obviously know nothing about how Wikipedia works. Anyone can edit? lololol anyone can edit until a sysop say you can edit. Creation of content couldn't be more centralized, there's one and only one version of a given subject and which version gets published is dictated by a few sysops that have other buddies as sysops too. It's all open publication license..... Anyone can download the database dump of all the content and share....
what exactly are you going to do with a db dump? And so far, nobody's created any peer-to-peer Distributed Wiki protocol alternative to even try to replace using a centralized website, yet.
WP is still a step away from centralization; however.
Why you are stuck with peer-to-peer in your head? YOu can have decentralized information using good old internet protocol for that.
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March 10, 2014, 01:10:19 AM |
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Why would I donate to a site that is responsible for centralizing information around the world? I can't believe people are helping information get centralized even more.
What is wrong with you? Wikipedia isn't centralization CONTROL, it's totally 100% free to everyone. No profits!! Volunteer based! A great cause, one of the best things to result from the internet, and the foundation for the future of a worldwide knowledge-base of humanity. YOu make zero sense.. what being 100% free and volunteer based has to do with it being or not being centralized? ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif) Wikipedia is information controlled by a few administrators, centralization of information is 1000X more dangerous than centralized currencies and central banks, and people like you are feeding this monster like stupid zombies.
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March 10, 2014, 01:37:35 AM |
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March 10, 2014, 01:42:53 AM |
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Wikipedia is great - but as with any centralized resource it can be easily manipulated by those with enough power. A decentralized wikipedia is a great idea.
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March 10, 2014, 01:49:25 AM Last edit: March 10, 2014, 02:18:40 AM by franky1 |
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silly people. your not donating to Wikipedia. in the hope they will accept donations..
thats a paradox
edit, sorry. there has been like 30 scams i came across(all with paragraphs that didnt read right).. and this one, i was just on autopilot..
need coffee to wake my brain up again
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I DO NOT TRADE OR ACT AS ESCROW ON THIS FORUM EVER. Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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March 10, 2014, 01:53:45 AM |
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Wikipedia is great - but as with any centralized resource it can be easily manipulated by those with enough power. A decentralized wikipedia is a great idea.
There is already a decentralized wikipedia... The internet! Centralization will only occur if all people start promoting one site such as wikipedia as source of all information. Wikipedia is the Ghash.io of the internet
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March 10, 2014, 01:56:32 AM |
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Get them to set up an official address and donations will go there. Anything else smells of a scam (especially from a newbie) despite your good intentions.
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March 10, 2014, 02:00:58 AM |
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Get them to set up an official address and donations will go there. Anything else smells of a scam (especially from a newbie) despite your good intentions. i agree with OP! hows he scamming!? he posted a link to a tweet!? dont be ridiculous!
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March 10, 2014, 02:28:15 AM |
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Hah... let's just hope his twitter account is not hacked. ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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March 10, 2014, 02:38:20 AM |
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Donated.
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March 10, 2014, 02:52:13 AM |
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Wikipedia is nice and all but it wouldn't hurt to decentralize.
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March 10, 2014, 05:37:34 AM |
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Personally, can't stand Jimmy Wales. My BTC will stay with me tonight.
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March 10, 2014, 03:01:52 PM |
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Update on everything that's been happening 1) That is Jimmy's account 2) He hasn't been hacked, coinbase is just moving his coins to an offline wallet 3) Jimmy seems very interested on BTC now 4) We have surpassed 4.5 btc mark and still growing. This community is great, let's keep donating. Thanks to everybody 5) He said all donations to that address will be forwarded to wikimedia foundation 6) He's analysing BTC as a wikipedia donation feature
thanks for the summary. i like point 5, thats important! i will donate. we nearly passed 5 btc (and thats just a test...cant believe they dont accept it yet ![Lips sealed](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/lipsrsealed.gif) ) 1McNsCTN26zkBSHs9fsgUHHy8u5S1PY5q3
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