I don't know what Wikimedia expects specifically from becoming a member at this point, but there's nothing wrong in showing support (via financial contributions

I don't know what Wikimedia expects specifically from becoming a member at this point, but there's nothing wrong in showing support (via financial contributions) for standards on the web per se I guess. Seems like W3C can use all the money it gets as there's not much activity in web standardization these days, with core efforts being taken elsewhere. Maybe that's even a good thing after 25 years of attempting to shoehorn HTML/DOM into an application scene graph. W3C's ongoing efforts with HTML 5.3, SVG 2, Payment, SOLID, etc. are all stalled as it seems, with only the CSS WGs pushing forward. Not that there aren't areas that could benefit from standardization. For example, I can see an emerging need of a standard for copyright and privacy policy metadata (or even enforcement) in light of recent EU legislature. Question is if W3C is the right organization to take this to, whether its organizational structure with paid memberships is a good fit, and whether it has good standing and authority as organization for standardization.