> I just thought my money went to maintaining Wikipedia. Wikipedia, it's purpose and intent is... "to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest

> I just thought my money went to maintaining Wikipedia. Wikipedia, it's purpose and intent is... "to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language,' that's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal." - Jimmy Wales, 2008 The grants work to serve that goal. Of ensuring that everyone has access to that information and can use it. So, my question is simple, if they didn't send the money to these organizations, but instead, used it instead to improve only, let's say, the machines it's hosted on, but you and whatever country you were in couldn't access it, would you still give them money? Wikipedia still exists for everyone else, but you and your fellow countrymen can't access it. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective