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I have donated in the past, but then there were wild accusations, people saying it's not needed, it's to fund other things, and so on and so forth.
Yesterday I got the popup begging for a couple of euros, so what's the status? Should I donate or is it a waste of time and money?
Cheers
Edit: Thanks for all the insightful posts! I'm jobless at the moment so just ten bucks this time:
The website itself needs a really small amount of money. Most of the money goes for other stuff which might not seem useful to you.
They make it seem like they don’t have money but it’s quite the opposite: they increase their spendings based on their revenue. They have enough for many years.
Don’t donate to them. There are far better ways to spend your money than a foundation that doesn’t really do anything on Wikipedia and that still actively blocks anonymous proxies.
Remember that there is a lot of anti-Wikipedia propaganda going around these days. Most "outrage" against Wikipedia is created and pushed artificially.
It’s just that one dude here
Ia it the.dude that's downvoting everything here?
In the current day and age of misinformation I think donating is more important than ever. It doesn't need to be much.
Reddit users and now lemmy users seem to have a riotous distaste for non-profits generally.
Wikipedia is one of the last, good parts of the internet, and it's under increasing threat.
Nope
Wikimedia the tool is great, the foundation behind it, not so much
Wikipedia is being actively attacked by fascists who dont want it to exist or be well maintained. More important than ever. Criticism can be safely ignored.
"Fascists criticize Wikipedia, therefore all criticism is done by fascists"
I criticize them and I do not share the ideas you’re saying I do.
If Elon doesn’t like it then you know Wikipedia is good.
I’ve increased the amount I donate since the campaign to discredit them has been in effect.
Maybe they aren’t perfect, but I don’t like the idea of a world without such a wonderful resource being freely available to everyone no matter their background or financial status.
I used it a lot as a student but couldn’t afford to donate then. I don’t use it directly a lot these days, but I’m sure indirectly it contributes to articles I read, & I can afford to donate now, so I try to pay it back & some.
Information is power, & those in/with power seem to currently be trying their best to bring everyone else down. Any small thing I can do to help prevent that is a win in my book.
Wikipedia, being a free source of information, is an incredibly important resource and a net good for humanity. But since Wikipedia is free for all they rely on donations to keep the lights on.
There are groups who would prefer it if that free access to information did not exist, or could be more easily be controlled and/or manipulated. It is in their interest to convince people not to donate to Wikipedia
I'm convinced that this "don't donate to Wikipedia" messaging that has cropped up in recent years is a psyop, set up by these groups with the goal to starve Wikipedia of income.
Don't fall for it. Support one of the last truly good places on the internet.
I never donated. Until the fascists told me not to donate. Now I donate regularly.
DONATE!
Wikipedia made a conscious choice to remain free, ad free and neutral.
They get my money! Even if they don't need it.
I simultaneously believe that Wikipedia is valuable and that it's not clear that WMF needed $185 million dollars.
As far as I can tell the situation has not significantly changed since "the last time(s)" this was discussed. Wikipedia remains a valuable resource, and WMF continues to aggressively increase both spending and fundraising revenue. Whether you think that means you should donate or not is probably the same answer as it was several years ago for most individuals based on personal preferences.
edit: typo
Always fund Wikipedia if you have the ability to
It may not need a donation at any given time, but given how volatile things are in the USA right now, there's every chance they might find themselves needing to suddenly spend a lot on lawyers
It's arguably one of the most important resources we have as humanity. It's imperative we protect it.
It's good to see Fediverse people actually supporting paying for something. Sometimes I think they want everything for free.
If the only non-profit you care about is the Wikimedia Foundation, then yeah donate.
But otherwise, go donate to other non-profits as Wikimedia is the least needy of the foundations (they are one of the most "well off" of the non-profits in the world afterall
Do you use it?
Donate. I donate $5/mo. Gonna bump it up to $10/month soon.
I love Wikipedia and have donated a lot of time and money, but damn is their foundation wasteful
Every organisation appears wasteful. Whether it's a non-profit, local club, or government organisation.
I'm also curious about this. If there are any transparency reports, I'd love to read through that.
The Wikimedia Foundation are trying to implement some AI solutions (for helping humans, not write articles/information), which is likely quite costly, unless someone donates it. However, I imagine many others' scrapers for AI are constantly demanding a lot from the Wikipedia servers since some years ago, probably resulting in increased costs. Hopefully the AI builders use a local copy of the torrent instead, but I fear they don't...
I'm still happily donating though, as I think the Wikipedia Foundation are still doing a solid job, despite me not always agreeing with their decisions.
I'm not giving money to Wikipedia anymore until they move out of the United States personally.
I was giving Wikipedia 5 bux occasionally and stopped.
I decided the same for archive.org. I'm amazed they got an extension at all under the Orange but I seriously doubt they're long for this world and it's probably not realistic they even could move unlike Wikipedia.
