Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.

The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.

Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1123763881#RfC_on_the_banners_for_the_December_2022_fundraising_campaign

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

@indrora @anildash alternately… it has enough cash on hand to continue operating at current spending levels for about 18 months. That “continue operating” figure is literally just hosting costs for the servers — not even paying for devops to keep them running. No ongoing software development, no legal costs, etc.