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
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
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.”
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