Is the #wikipedia in dire need of more cash? Their pleas are alarming--- but how are they really doing?
I've always been reticent to donate since I wrote so many articles for them and created "project afro" to improve the depth of coverage on people of the African diaspora--
For all this work I got very little support or kindness, mostly outright hostility. It was like a war to even get some articles to EXIST.
But, I also think the wikipedia is one of the last "good" parts of the internet.
@futurebird Related: How successful is the fundraising strategy?
I want to see numbers, and it sounds like you do too, but I recognize that a lot of people find impassioned pleas to be more compelling than financial releases.
It's a puzzle of marketing, then: whichever message they put out will turn off one group but bring in another, and I have no idea which is more optimal for them or how well their strategic choice is working toward their goals.
Well, it's in their interest to get it right
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Chris Carlin