Newsweek: Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Lots of fun pages: Eelon must've tried to buy it in 2022 bc special pages & banners say "Wikipedia is not for sale"

Jimmy Wales tweeted about it in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_for_sale

Excerpt (emphasis added):

If you disagree with how Wikipedia is run...
Disagreement is a normal part of the human experience. On Wikipedia, we resolve disagreements through discussion and consensus, not by throwing money at the problem or scoring other means of gaining power. If you still disagree with consensus, it's more productive to move on and accept the decision, rather than trying to buy out the website. See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wikipedia#We_are_not_for_sale

But it is for sale! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia

As of November 12, 2002, Wikipedia is officially FOR SALE!

That's right! All 6,929,888 articles on English Wikipedia (including this one) could be yours to do with as you please. You could delete rival products, win presidential elections, change national borders, anything at all!
The current price of Wikipedia is:

$87,349,953,439,365,583.93

Buying instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia/Instructions
Just a part of it:

Preferred instructions

Fly into Kansas City International Airport.
From there, request a Kia Soul from the nearby car salesman and go west, then take the 124th right.
Then, turn your car 136 degrees and continue for 53 miles (85 km),

then turn left,
then left again,
and left again- wait... yeah, left again. You should arrive at a metal bridge.

We will be under there waiting for the transaction to happen. We will only be there at 4:36 pm.
Then, we will give you a 42-letter passcode to approve the transaction. You must perform the Secret handshake listed under section 348 B-27a of the Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines instruction handbook.

Half of your payment must be made in cash, and a fifth of the other half will be performed credit. The remaining four-fifths of the other half will be paid out via Wiki-tokens at precisely 6:34 am.

Wikipedia Purchase Management Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia/Wikipedia_Purchase_Management

Johnathan Secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia/Johnathan_Secret

How to Meet Jerry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia/How_to_meet_Jerry