Submitted 6 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
What makes you think they have lots of money? And how much do you think running a website as big and well-used as Wikipedia costs?
How much money do you give to online creators so they can do stupid shit? Surely you can give at least a fraction of that to the biggest free knowledge source in the world.
I 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.
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.
Here’s the mediawiki source code, available under GPL 2. gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/…/core/
The only reason not to donate Wikipedia is if you’ve donated already recently.
Or if you don’t have disposable income, as many people don’t
You should know that you suck.
they could make billions monetizing the site in various ways like adding ads, monetizing user data, paywalling, or pushing a political agenda
they made a conscious choice not to.
they’ll get my donation every year whether they’re rolling in it or not. they deserve every penny
This channel is a BS click baiter I used to watch him also he tries to rage bait
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Being a free service with no advertising, I’m guessing the only reason they have money is because people donate.
But “somehow” your description skips the part about where the money comes from?
Aggressively? Showing a banner for about a week once a year!! That’s aggressive.
How the fuck can anyone be so butthurt about a free service? I’m definitely NOT clicking your link to support something so stupid on YouTube.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 days ago
Sure Don't click the link, but do some research.
Tl:dr one year worth of donations is enough to keep them running for over 100 years.
The hundreds of millions in donations aren't going towards the site, it's just enriching the owners
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Bullshit!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
Revenue $185.4 million (2024)
Expenses $178.6 million (2024)
Employees 363 (2024)
Volunteers 277,000 (2024)
How did you ever convince yourself that the 10th most visited website, that doesn’t have any revenue other than donations is rolling in dough? Apart from smoothly running servers, they need lawyers, both to ensure they stay within local laws in more than a 100 countries, but also to stave off idiotic lawsuits. Just the recent changes to UK law has been a major legal headache.