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IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Thanks for reminding me to leave a donation on Wikipedia, seriously if we lose Wikipedia we are fucked.
softwarist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yet … They probably don’t need donations yet!
ernest314@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
… idk, if Wikipedia is pissing off Deepak Chopra, I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing…
softwarist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I should have specified: I don’t agree with every part of the article, but I shared it for this excerpt:
The Wikimedia Foundation solicits donations from Wikipedia users every year, even though its expenses ($2 million to run hosting and servers) are vanishingly small compared to its profits. Wikimedia has increased its spending over 1000% since 2008 and sits on $97.6 million in assets as of 2016.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so you’re judging their costs and balances based on ten year old data? and acting like times haven’t changed enormously in that decade?
I know the amount of bandwidth AI’s are using to scrape wikipedia is itself an onus:
arstechnica.com/…/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-ban…
ernest314@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
ah okay, I think sharing that entire article is kinda endorsing all the weird stuff in it, but thanks for specifying.
I know those are large numbers, but like, Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the internet? “$97.6 million in assets” is peanuts to that (compare it to any other website in a similar range!). The fact that they don’t have that much operating costs is a good thing, right? It means they’re efficient, which is what people love to complain about with non-profits.
Anyway, it’s not like they ask for much–I think the last fundraiser I saw they were asking for $2.75 a year, if you felt like they provided you that much value over the year. I certainly do, and I donate $10/year to them. If you don’t feel like Wikipedia is worth that cost to you that’s fair–but I think telling other people that they shouldn’t donate because it objectively(?) isn’t worth it is a strange thing to do.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Your money is better spent on archive.org
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How about both?
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
If you have enough money, why not 😇🙏🏻