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Legitimately, Wiki is one of the great institutions of the modern net. One of the few things that I look at, with all its flaws, and say “Damn, that’s a fine contribution to human society”
I donated $15 and got an invitation to add Wikipedia to my will
That’s an ad
which showed up right after i clicked submit on the donation
Yeah, scummy
I’ll just leave this right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
I used to donate but have since switched to other more needing causes.
If you feel that Wiki has savings and therefore doesn’t need your money today, that’s fine.
But other than that WTF is this nonsense? None of it follows. Says Wiki keeps increasing spending while not noting the obvious - that its savings are growing too. Worse, without noting that a big chunk of the expenses are going towards savings. From the report below, out of the 111M spent, 51M went to savings. His expenditure graph includes savings yet he thinks that’s all spending. 😄
Anyone curious what Wiki spends on: https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/annualreport/2021-annual-report/financials/#section-2.
I donated once, and the payment processor failed so it didn’t even go through.
I still get the thankyou emails.
I’m such a phoney.
I donated to archive.org too, i think there solid things to save
They also need the money more
I donated 3.10 to cover the cost of using a card personally.
I donated once but then I found out they have a CEO on a six figure salary.
So they can get stuffed. If they want more cash they can give that leech the boot.
You’re asking people working for the non-profit to accept lower pay of tens of thousands of dollars? So basically because someone doesn’t make a personal sacrifice of a significant fraction of their salary you’re not willing to help at all?
I don’t like or accept this logic.
Now I wonder, because both 999k and 100k are six figure sums, and one of them I find much more reasonable than the other.
But yeah, running a non-profit often takes money instead of earning you money, and if they have spare money to pay salary to the CEO, maybe they’re all right
Donated to Wikipedia before and once we have an income again we’ll be donating again since we use it quite a lot
Im just going to leave this here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MpeOFvxor_0&pp=ygUOZmVybiB3aWtpcGVkaWE%3D
