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[-] lime@feddit.nu 39 points 2 days ago

history has really whitewashed jimbo. he had no intention of making an open encyclopedia, he wanted to sell it to contend with the encyclopedia britannica. it was only pushback from contributors that made him stop.

[-] minoscopede@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

[[citation needed]]

[-] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Whose the angee one in the picture

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Corporate overlords presumably

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

i was assuming that haircut came from someone specific

[-] ctry21@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

It looks like the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which would make sense because Wikipedia are in a court battle with the UK government at the minute over age verification rules to protect the privacy of their users. They might end up geoblocking the whole country rather than remove anonymity from the site

[-] Conercao@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

And all the students cried out at once... And then there was silence

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

TIL, thanks!

[-] abbiistabbii 2 points 2 days ago

Keir Starmer

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