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And it's clearly not. Wikimedia Foundation has consistently grown it's spending with the income, and they've had many badly failed projects that are up years wo
by GauntletWizard 5y ago
And it's clearly not. Wikimedia Foundation has consistently grown it's spending with the income, and they've had many badly failed projects that are up years worth of funding, such as their VisualEditor program, which should be taught in software engineering classes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor
- akolbe 5y agoThey are also lording it more and more over the volunteers who are writing the actual articles. The huge influx of money over the past decade or so attracts a corporate mindset that has very little to do with the volunteer culture that actually built Wikipedia. People don't realize that Wikipedia actually existed BEFORE the Wikimedia Foundation which does the fundraising and collects the money today.
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- GauntletWizard 5y agoYeah, Wikipedia was useful at least a full year before Wikimedia Foundation even existed.