Wikipedia made a conscious choice to stay impartial, ad free, and governed by a nonprofit. they could have monetized like facebook and be raking it in. they didn’t.
i donate a few hundred dollars every year. i don’t care wether they need it or not. the yve earned it imo
Yup, set up a monthly recurring donation. One of the most valuable thing humanity has built. My life would be much worse without it.
real talk tho, donate to Wikipedia if you use it. just do it.
I made a larger donation once after years of using it and finally being in a position where I could comfortably toss money at stuff that was free. and I’ve made a few smaller ones since. I should probably have paid more, it’s done a hell of a lot more for me than any streaming service has, especially when rated as gain/cost
I value Wikipedia and appreciate what they do is important but they have plenty of money. If you are in the financial situation to donate and want to great but I get a bit sick of the guilt tripping they do. They claimed every day for the past decade that they’re about to go out of business any moment now.
Agreed. There’s no need for them to beg for handouts every year like they’re going out of business.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html
Also since we’re on the fediverse, toss a donation at your friendly instance admins since they’re shouldering so much cost and trouble as volunteers
Edit to add: ditto for any free/open source projects and services you use!
I’ve donated to Wikipedia a few times over the years. It would have been so easy to monetize with ad money and they chose not to. Gotta support the good ones with the only thing that matters in capitalism.
Wow. It’s Hamilton B. Urglar.
Just in case anyone else gets curious, Grimace is his full name and his species is Grimace. Birdie the Early Bird is a bird (most likely a canary).
There’s also the Professor who is a human and Uncle O’Grimacey, Grimace’s green Irish uncle who promoted the shamrock shakes.
Mayor McCheese’s species is a burger and it just gets stranger from there. Mac Tonight is a humanoid moon creature, CosMc is an alien, Officer Big Mac is a
bastardBig Mac, and Speedee is also a hamburger.There’s Sundae which I would have guessed is a sundae, but nope, he’s a cursed dog. The McNugget buddies are what I expected which came as a complete shock to me at this point and Fry Kid’s are… you guessed it, Gobblins (made to look like French Fries). They look nothing like French fries, that’s a quote from the McDonalds wiki.
Hamilton B. Urglar
And there’s a million buns I haven’t stole, but just you wait, just you waaaaait.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/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
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_Wikimedia_Chapter%3F
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 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
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.”
I “subscribe” to Wikipedia by making an automatic montly donation. You stop noticing you’re doing it just as fast as any other subscription service.
I have a standing donation of $15/mo because I’m seriously worried about their future.
You mean our future?
I once donated $50.
It’s not much, but I’ve definitely got my money’s worth and then some over the years.
I live in a country that doesn’t allow donations without special paperwork so I have never seen the notification. Life’s good
