{"id":7404,"date":"2023-10-24T04:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T08:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2023-10-24T04:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T08:26:56","slug":"elon-musk-offers-1-billion-to-wikipedia-to-change-its-name-to-dckipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/elon-musk-offers-1-billion-to-wikipedia-to-change-its-name-to-dckipedia\/7404\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk offers $1 billion to Wikipedia to change its name to D*ckipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk offered Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia, $1 billion under the condition that it changes its name to \u2018Dickipedia\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote his offer in a post on his site. He had previously posted a screenshot of a personal appeal from the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, stating that the website is not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,\u201d Musk wrote. He continued in another post, \u201cPlease add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wxoHQdRICy\">https:\/\/t.co\/wxoHQdRICy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1716102436123783175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When journalist Ed Krassenstein, an user on X, suggested Wikipedia to take the deal as they can always change it back after collecting the sum from Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla founder added a condition to his offer. \u201cOne year minimum, I mean, I\u2019m not a fool lol,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wikipedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wikipedia<\/a>, Do it!<\/p>\n<p>You can always change it back after you collect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdKrassen\/status\/1716103049863663962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Musk had made multiple post criticizing Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia, for asking for money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk offered Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia, $1 billion under the condition that it changes its name to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":7410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[157,2024,305],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-elon-musk","tag-wikipedia","tag-x"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}