• TotallynotJessicaM
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    3 months ago

    If I had any money to donate, I’d donate. Unfortunately, I’ve never been in a worse position.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      My spouse and I donate as generously as we can as often as we can. We donate for ourselves, but do as much as we can for those who can’t. You, friend, have reminded me to make another donation.

      This one’s not for you, it’s from you

    • 🐝bownage [they/he]@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      This may be a dumb question but… who are they hiring if not financial staff? Shouldn’t becoming a financially healthy organisation be their top priority? You know, as to not go bankrupt and have to start selling out to Microsoft or whoever.

  • Wirlocke
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    3 months ago

    I do the default monthly donation, Wikipedia is a world wonder that has many frothing at the opportunity to burn it.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    3 months ago

    I recently saw a thing about how many hundreds of millions (… billions?) wikipedia get, and how it’d be enough to keep wikipedia running for however many centuries… was it maybe in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3YZYEERhn8 amidst other grievances? [Edit: if it wasn’t in that, doubtless dozens of other vids on it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+donations+exposed ]

    Puts a different context and feels on that message, huh?

    It means we can continue to keep Wikipedia running smoothly

    U-huh.

    and provide free and reliable information

    Because the gatekeepers know best. Trust them. Pay no attention to the fallibility, conflicts of interest, censorship, etc etc etc.

    • lenalena
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      3 months ago

      It’s not about keeping the servers running. Wikipedia is not your friendly hacker collective that needs to just have some machines to run their wiki on. I’m not saying you shouldn’t critize them, that’s important-- but please do it on an informed basis. There is lots of misinformation and framing out there, that’s literally what Musk is doing.

  • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I donate from time to time. But the recent and heavy push has been… tiring. It’s almost putting me off from donating again.