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Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, but the Wikimedia foundation is not known to spend money wisely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12
by petters 5y ago
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, but the Wikimedia foundation is not known to spend money wisely.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
A very small fraction of the money is going to keep the servers running. The editors of Wikipedia are unpaid.
The software projects ran by Wikimedia have not been very impressive. What happened to proper discussion pages, for example? That has been going on for more than a decade.
- junon 5y agoThe "make a book" function has been literally broken (see: non-functional, with a "sorry about that" message) for years now. It used to be my favorite part of Wikipedia and now you can't do shit with it.
- easton 5y agoLooks like it was uninstalled from the English Wikipedia a couple months ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books
- junon 5y agoSad. It was insanely useful.
- bashmack 5y agoThe Wikipedia movement is in survival mode, and has for a while now being summarily dumping those things that require lots of volunteer effort to maintain, for very little return in terms of page views. Naturally, none of that has anything to do with the finances, because the job of maintaining Wikipedia content falls to the unpaid.
- StaringFrog 5y agoHave you seen Wikidata? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page Super awesome project methinks