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Should You Donate to Wikipedia?
- akolbe 4y agoThe figures in that video are a little out of date. The Wikimedia Foundation last reported assets of $231 million, along with an additional $100+ million in its Endowment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial... Internet hosting costs $2.4 million; the main expenditure item is salaries: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2020-2021_Audit_Report.pdf#page=5 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim... Salaries are quite high; comparing the Form 990 (lines 5 and 15 on page 1) for the Internet Archive with that of the Wikimedia Foundation, average salary costs per employee at Wikimedia are more than twice what they are at the Internet Archive (bear in mind that all Wikipedia articles are written by unpaid volunteers): https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943242767/202013219349323056/full https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943... https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200049703/202101319349300105/full https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... Fundraising banners are currently shown to Wikipedia users in India, Latin America and South Africa. US, UK and Germany will have theirs in December, as usual. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundraising_activities https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundrais...