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Most large orgs don't beg for my money after I've already given them my time for free though.

• Clewza313 6y ago
  Wikimedia is free for its users and doesn't do ads, you need to pay the server bills and find development somehow.
  • m3at 6y ago
    It absolutely does, and Wikipedia gets my donation yearly for that. However there are legitimate questions about how much/few of that is dedicated to its core tasks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...
  • fastball 6y ago
    Right, it is not like most large orgs. So the excuse "most large orgs throw parties" is not a good one, imo. Though tbh "other orgs do it" is never a good argument, but it is especially bad here.
    • Clewza313 6y ago
      I've attended a bunch of Wikimedia/Wikimania conferences. These are held on a shoestring budget, and any drinking and dancing is on participants' own dime. WMF's per-employee T&E cost is apparently $7k/year. Working in sales at a company you've heard of, I've flown single flights and attended single dinners that cost more than that.
      • fastball 6y ago
        Yes, except WMF should not be doing sales. They're an online wikipedia. Their costs keep ballooning, and not to pay for things that I care about when I donate money to support their core mission.
        • fastball 6y ago
          Haha freudian slip there, *online encyclopedia.
• unethical_ban 6y ago
  Should they have put logic into their banner ads and email to exempt any logged-in user who ever made an edit? If you have a new point to make, it's best to make it as a top level comment rather than trying to prop yourself up as opposing a point someone never made.