It is concerning, but this is pretty much a rehash of what was said last year: https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579777690454089729 https://nitter.net/echetus/

It is concerning, but this is pretty much a rehash of what was said last year: https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579777690454089729 https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579777690454089729 -- what has changed since then to prompt this new piece? This article ends a little disingenuously; of course Wikipedia is written by volunteers, and of course the server costs aren't a large percentage of its outgoings. Most of its outgoings on the core project that is "keep doing Wikipedia" is paying staff to fix bugs and implement functionality for the site, to support those volunteer editors. Wikimedia does run campaigns to get people interested in editing, or drives to add or improve specific articles; much of this is language-specific and is done by the country-specific Wikimedia orgs rather than the main one. So it's not like they're frittering _all_ the money away, even if, yes, they seem to have made a number of grants that don't seem to fit with their mission.