Here’s the mediawiki source code, available under GPL 2. gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/…/core/
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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 days agoI only really donate to Open-Source, I'm not saying give money to this youtuber, but watch the actual video.
Wikipedia isn't the good guy people make them out to be.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
But if I compare a free and unbiased knowledge resource asking for a one-time donation and a YouTube channel backed by the engines of capitalism, which one am I going to trust?
Even if Wikipedia doesn’t need the money, they deserve it.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 days ago
Wikipedia is also backed by the engines of capitalism.
Don't trust the video but do your own research.
One year of donations is enough to run wiki for hundreds of years.
They get hundreds of millions in donations, 99% of that it just enriches the owners, not to run the site
remon@ani.social 6 days ago
is that the result of your “do your own research”? Because it took me less then 5 minutes to conclude that this is totally false.
63% of their operation costs are salaries of their 700 employees.
So your claim is pure bullshit.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Stupid knee jerk “no you” response that doesn’t make the least bit of sense, where YouTube is obviously a major engine of capitalism, owned by one of the richest most capitalistic companies in the world, where everything in how YouTube operates is governed by their capitalistic principles.
How do you figure in any way the same is true for Wikipedia which is a non profit?!?!
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Wikipedia is backed by nothing but donations, and the youtube video is sponsored by the stock market. If anything, wikipedia is backed by the engines of socialism.
Did you do any research beyond watching this youtube video? Because everyone else’s research seems to discredit it.