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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

Show threadTiffany Lee Brown (she/they)Dec 1, 2022
@indrora The Internet Archive is notorious for stealing content from writers, publishers large and small, and other people who attempt to make culture and intellectual property for a living. Please do not support them.
Show thread🦊.rawr => lambda yip: yap(yip)Dec 1, 2022

@magdalen
The internet archive is literally the only place I have found information critical to keeping systems alive because someone happened to upload that purloined content that has become absolute unobtainium otherwise. It has content that because of content publishers going out of existence would have been lost.

Schools depend on it. NASA has depended on it.

It is simultaneously the graveyard and landfill of data.

Show threadTiffany Lee Brown (she/they)
@indrora Yeah, it does have that appeal. But like many tech efforts, no one seems to have thought through the effects it would have on the workers whose labor makes these efforts possible in the first place.
Dec 1, 2022 at 7:37pmWeb