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First was Chaya Raichik, also known as “Libs of TikTok,” who on December 23 screenshotted a pie chart of budget categories from the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023–2024 annual plan.1 Apparently not bothering to read past the labels, Raichik dashed off a tweet condemning the Foundation for spending $50 million on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”,a the right’s latest bogeyman, and urging her own substantial follower base to “Stop donating to Wokepedia”.2b Musk agreed, amplifying her post with the comment: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority.”3 [Image: Pie chart from Wikimedia’s annual plan, breaking down the budget by goal categories: Infrastructure, Equity, Safety & Inclusion, Effectiveness.] That the “safety & inclusion” link is not purple in this screenshot taken from Raichik’s tweet suggests she didn’t even bother to visit the page to determine what that category encompasses. a. “DEI” has been a recent addition to “CRT”, “wokeness”, and other dogwhistles used by conservatives and those further to the right to gesture at, and broadly oppose, racial and gender equality.5455 b. Rightwingers trying to come up with a slur against Wikipedia should really have considered something that doesn’t so closely overlap with Wookieepedia, a near-homograph that predates the “Wokepedia” coinage by twenty years, which makes me do a double take every time. For those who aren’t familiar,