Wikipedia had more membership growth in the time where there was no money for yearly conferences and community outreach. Wikidata mainly works because it's pro

Wikipedia had more membership growth in the time where there was no money for yearly conferences and community outreach. Wikidata mainly works because it's programmers do a decent job and people like to participate. It doesn't work because WMF invests in community outreach and yearly conferences. It's get's a lot of money from the German chapter, so it shows some usefulness of the chapter but it's not a result of the community building spending of that chapter.