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Elon Musk has confirmed that his offer to pay $1 billion for Wikipedia to change its name to\u00a0\u201cDickipedia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is still on the table. The X owner initially made the proposal amid accusations that the encyclopedia has an embedded left-leaning bias.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, one X user recalled Musk\u2019s offer, to which the billionaire replied\u00a0\u201cTrue. Offer still stands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Earlier this year, Musk claimed that Wikipedia was\u00a0\u201cbroken\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and urged to\u00a0\u201cfix Wokipedia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0amid accusations that the website allows articles that brand Republicans and US President-elect Donald Trump as\u00a0\u201cfascist\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and promote other left-wing narratives while painting the political right in a negative light. He claimed that the encyclopedia is\u00a0\u201ccontrolled by far-left activists\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and urged people to stop donating to it.<\/p>\n Musk has also questioned why the Wikimedia Foundation has been asking for large amounts of money, arguing that\u00a0\u201cit certainly isn\u2019t needed to operate Wikipedia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0because\u00a0\u201cyou can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The website previously explained in a community note that while a text and English-only copy of Wikipedia was about 51GB, the entire encyclopedia, including all the media and other languages weighs some 428TB. The organization said that in 2022, Wikimedia generated $154 million in revenue and had $145 million in expenses.<\/p>\n In October, while posting a photo of Wikipedia\u2019s donation plea, Musk wrote:\u00a0\u201cI will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and called it\u00a0\u201ca stiff & firm offer.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile, a study in June by the Manhattan Institute, a US-based conservative think tank, found that Wikipedia\u2019s tendency to negatively portray right-wing political figures had started to affect AI large language models that harvest data from the online encyclopedia.<\/p>\n The report said that it had found\u00a0\u201cprevailing associations of negative emotions (e.g., anger and disgust) with right-leaning public figures; and positive emotions (e.g., joy) with left-leaning public figures,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0suggesting\u00a0\u201cevidence of political bias embedded in Wikipedia articles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Last month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also hit out against Wikipedia, claiming that the encyclopedia provided one-sided and often biased interpretations of events in its historical and political articles, which\u00a0\u201calmost always reflect and exclusively Western-centric point of view and contain direct forgeries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n