Wikipedia "works" as a non-profit but they are also 100% the Kings of deceptive marketing to get way more funding than they need to operate and blow most of it

Wikipedia "works" as a non-profit but they are also 100% the Kings of deceptive marketing to get way more funding than they need to operate and blow most of it on stuff unrelated to Wikipedia or to an ever-growing endowment that supposedly already covers the site for several decades. Source: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais... // associated HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27339887 For a more practical example; I moderate a wiki project with semi-decent traffic and a decent enough reputation and our operating costs are about ~3k each year (it's like a little more than that) if the donation rounds are any indication. The donations usually occur in November and we get funded within 3 weeks. In terms of expenses, it's really hosting and a small amount of money set aside for a WMF developer (independently) to maintain our custom extensions for the site. You don't need tons of money if you just want to stay solvent.