00:00 Speaker A
I want to quickly go back to what you mentioned about um Elon. When he comes out publicly and and calls you Wokepedia, what happens to the activity on your platform?
00:10 Speaker B
Uh, I mean, in terms of our community of volunteers, very little. I mean, we’re just writing our encyclopedia and we just carry on. Um, the day he said uh defund Wikipedia, we had a massive surge of donations. so I’m like, you know, bring it Elon.
00:32 Speaker A
That’s one way to raise money. I mean you don’t take ads on the site, right?
00:34 Speaker B
We don’t have ads and uh you know, it’s not our favorite way to raise money, but um it’s fine. Uh you know, at the end of the day, what we believe, you know, it’s one of the great, you know, well, one of the seven rules of trust is independence. Like we’ve really designed things to have intellectual independence. So we don’t we don’t get any money from uh governments, that’s important. Uh we don’t have, you know, we’re not funded by billionaires or major corporations. They do contribute some. It’s much appreciated. We’re not anti that. Uh but the vast majority of the money is from ordinary people saying, here’s, you know, here’s my 20 bucks. Um and the appeal that really works the best for people is really that reciprocity appeal, another sort of trust thing, which is, you know, you use Wikipedia all the time, you should probably chip in. And I think a lot of people are like, oh yeah, that that actually makes sense. It’s kind of great that it’s free, but I I I love it and I should just chip in. So, because of that, then our community, you know, we’re not under pressure from anybody, Elon Musk or the government or anybody because we just ignore them. It’s fine. We’re just going to keep on doing our thing.
