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I think users have only tolerated it to date because they genuinely thought the Wikimedia Foundation was struggling to keep Wikipedia ("The Free Encyclopedia")
by akolbe 5y ago
I think users have only tolerated it to date because they genuinely thought the Wikimedia Foundation was struggling to keep Wikipedia ("The Free Encyclopedia") up and running ... rather than trying to collect hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its organisational footprint and mission.
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- akolbe 5y agoThis completely spurious notion, that the Wikimedia Foundation "often struggles to have enough money to keep Wikipedia up and running", was nicely parroted by Trevor Noah here in this interview with then-Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdn1s9Sjfo&t=270s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdn1s9Sjfo&t=270s As you will note, nothing is said in this interview to dispel that notion.