Track_ShovelMar 21

Donations

https://slrpnk.net/post/35592695

Show threadstarelfsc2

www.makeuseof.com/…/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/ Interesting article, ignore the clickbait title. Even the former executive director thinks the foundation spends too much on chapters and other outreach

meta.wikimedia.org/…/What_is_a_Wikimedia_Chapter%…

If you support these things that’s great, but it’s a bit disingenuous for them to beg like they’re barely keeping the lights on when they have record gains every year.

Wikipedia Has Millions in the Bank–Why Beg for More?

You might've seen Wikipedia's large and frequent notices asking for donations when using it. But why does it need money, with millions in the bank?

MakeUseOf
Mar 22 at 4:27amWeb
Show threadNalivaiMar 22
Wikipedia is a backbone of society, and is constantly under attack by people who want the world where you can’t find unbiased information. Their former whatever is a right wing grifter and full of shit, but even if he wasn’t (he is though) they can spend whatever the fuck they want on whatever the fuck they want, they earned it
Show threadstarelfsc2Mar 23
Sure, I just don’t like how they frame it as “we will literally go extinct and free information will die if we don’t get record gains this year too.”
Show threadNalivaiMar 24
Wikipedia is incredibly expensive, and if they don’t get enough money to be independent, it will be destroyed immediately. And then yeah, access to free information will die. It is that serious