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Just to clarify, there's no Wikipedia Foundation, there's Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is owned by Wikimedia Foundation. You can't donate to Wikipedia, the
by hbrn 4y ago
Just to clarify, there's no Wikipedia Foundation, there's Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia is owned by Wikimedia Foundation.
You can't donate to Wikipedia, the banners on Wikipedia lead to Wikimedia donations.
It is quite unethical:
1. They have enough donations to keep Wikipedia running for decades, yet each year banner gets more and more manipulative, pretending WP is on the brink of collapse.
2. IIRC less than 5% of money are actually used towards Wikipedia needs.
3. Not to mention that WP authors essentially work for free.
Why is it tolerated? Because most people don't even know you're not donating to Wikipedia. And the product is just too good to care.
- pxoe 4y agosure, they could "keep it running", except it would get no new features and refinement, and would operate in a static (stagnant, as the world keeps moving on) barebones version. would it also be able to scale with increase in visitor traffic? would it be able to deal with increase in media uploads, or would it have to limit or freeze them? what about inflation and increase in hosting prices, and prices of everything else? if your vision for wikipedia is a text-based website with feature set from 2007 - and just that, maybe it could run for even longer.
- hbrn 4y ago> would it also be able to scale with increase in visitor traffic? would it be able to deal with increase in media uploads Yes. It's not a social network / advertising machine. Hosting is a tiny fraction of Wikimedia spending: a mere $2.4M in 2021. I was surprised to learn they spend more on awards and grants than on hosting.