The deceptive part is when they tell you they need your money today "to defend Wikipedia's independence" when in actual reality they need money today so they ca

The deceptive part is when they tell you they need your money today "to defend Wikipedia's independence" when in actual reality they need money today so they can increase their annual budget by $42 million (that's the increase from 2020/21 to 2021/22). Year goal 20/21: $108M https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikimedia_Foundation_first_quarter_2020-2021_tuning_session_-_Advancement.pdf&page=9 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikim... Year goal 21/22: $150M https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022#Budget https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...