Is it fair to call out Wikipedia for something like this and educate people for how their donations might get used? Most certainly! But will i still be likely

Is it fair to call out Wikipedia for something like this and educate people for how their donations might get used? Most certainly! But will i still be likely to throw a small amount of money Wikipedia's way, given how much utility i've gotten out of it for free otherwise? Probably. Why? Because there isn't anything better out there, similarly to how we're stuck tolerating Mozilla not being excellent recently, about which i wrote in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29395206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29395206 (with which i'd like to draw parallels) That said, having a local and searchable copy of all of the English Wikipedia can be pretty nice as well. For example, the data is already accessible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#English-language_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#En... And then there are local browsers, for example XOWA: http://xowa.org/ http://xowa.org/ or Kiwix: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page Now, the UI could probably use a few improvements, but it's overall not too hard to get up and running, here's an example guide: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/ https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-f... The space requirements also shouldn't be too much for a modern HDD to handle either, so it's entirely feasible. That way you can benefit from Wikipedia's data, without having to rely on consuming their other content, much like you can use Firefox without opting in to their other initiatives. That said, i still occasionally throw a little bit of money their way.