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The worst recession in three generations saw WMF donations increase by >50% year-over-year in every single year.

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  The distributional impacts of major downturns and their effects on the groups donating to any particular charity aren't identical downturn to downtun; the fact that a particular major downturn didn't hurt WMF donations doesn't mean that would be true of the next one.
  • jessriedel 7y ago
    What historical downturn are you thinking of, and how much did the revenue of any charity lower purely as a result of that downturn (and not, e.g., because the charity's mission was no longer relevant)?
  • elect_engineer 7y ago
    It sounds like some here are of the opinion that Wikipedia's revenue will never take a nosedive for any reason and that the bubble will never burst. Now where have I heard that kind of talk before? Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer"