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For another good article on Wikipedia's aggressive soliciting, see https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/ https://www.dailydot.com/deb
by btilly 5y ago
For another good article on Wikipedia's aggressive soliciting, see https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais... which was previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887.
In 2016 a prominent Wikipedian saw the exponential trend and wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2..., aka "Wikipedia has Cancer".
- loeg 5y agoThe article copied in Signpost has been updated annually since 2016, too, at the original source (see prominent "UPDATED VERSION AT" link at the top).