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I'm not a big fan of re-donating donations in general. At the very least I'd want a good explanation of why this furthers the organization's objective. Eg, if
by dale_glass 3y ago
I'm not a big fan of re-donating donations in general. At the very least I'd want a good explanation of why this furthers the organization's objective.
Eg, if they donate to MariaDB because they use the database, or to the EFF because they offered legal assistance, that makes perfect sense to me.
But donating to an organization that doesn't directly benefit Wikipedia in any way, that's where I'm much more doubtful. I'd much prefer they just advertised them in some way instead, like during their donation drives.
- kmeisthax 3y agoFWIW the current set of donations seems at least mostly aligned with Wikipedia's mission. The only thing I'm suspicious about[0] is "Data for Black Lives", which sounds like AI snake oil. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180695
- M2Ys4U 3y ago>But donating to an organization that doesn't directly benefit Wikipedia in any way, that's where I'm much more doubtful. I'd much prefer they just advertised them in some way instead, like during their donation drives. The biggest donation is going to a charity managing an archive. A place that has important documents that can be cited by, oh I don't know, an encyclopedia maybe?