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.

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 have a standing donation of $15/mo because I’m seriously worried about their future.

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.

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

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 bastard Big 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.

I once donated $50.

It’s not much, but I’ve definitely got my money’s worth and then some over the years.

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.