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Obviously, because they can. As long as people are giving them money, they will take the money and ask for more money. The business flows, so it continues. The

Obviously, because they can. As long as people are giving them money, they will take the money and ask for more money. The business flows, so it continues. The question is whether they invest the money according to their mission, or waste it in corruption. And in that regard one should remember that Wikipedia is not just Wikipedia anymore, it's wikimedia for a long time now, which aims for much more than just maintaining a collection of text. Though, whether this is good or bad, and whether they use the money according to their money, I don't know. It seems more information should be spreaded about this.

akolbe 5y ago
Well, there is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-... I don't think many donors have ever looked at that. Nor do I think many donors who do can make too much sense of phrases like "The growth in Thriving Movement expenses reflects a large increase in grants to the movement along with additional investments in our Thriving Movement focus areas." Several people got paid for coming up with that sentence, and many others like it ... just saying.