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Wikipedia gets a lot of donations from the uk. I’m not sure how many Brits would continue putting £10-100/mo into a charity that explicitly doesn't operate in t
by OtherShrezzing 1y ago
Wikipedia gets a lot of donations from the uk. I’m not sure how many Brits would continue putting £10-100/mo into a charity that explicitly doesn't operate in their borders.
- piker 1y agoAny stats on this? I'd be surprised if the number of Brits putting £10-100/mo into Wikipedia greatly exceeds 10.
- tetris11 1y agohttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2023-24_Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2023-24_Report Best I can find $ 132,466.01 Africa $ 4,902,373.13 Asia $ 49,423,340.29 Europe $106,546,895.77 N.America $ 2,509,299.46 Other $ 6,082,217.76 Oceania $ 944,844.22 S.America
- philipwhiuk 1y agohttps://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5005466 https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/ch...
- piker 1y agoIt looks from another chart like 21% of revenue is recurring, so $10 million annually for Europe. Convert that to GBP and you get about £7.5 million. Figure that the UK accounts for about 15% of the European economy and assume it contributes to Wikipedia at about an equal share. That's about £1.125 million in estimated annual recurring contributions from the UK. You said 10-100/mo, so let's assume £55/mo or £660/year as the mean. That would be about 1,700 Brits, a surprising number.
- dr_dshiv 1y agoI assumed Britain would not be Europe but “other”
- lillecarl 1y agoEurope isn't EU, EU isn't Europe.
- invalidusernam3 1y agoWhy would you think that? Leaving the EU was not a geographical event
- kakacik 1y agoJust imagined on the day of brexit whole set of islands just started drifting few hundred kms towards west (or south-west given how canary islands often feels like british overseas territory?) to underscore the leaving part.
- flir 1y agoDig up beaches on the east coast, dump as landfill on the west coast. Nothing's too much trouble for The Great Experiment. Of course, Ireland will have to move out the way. (Wait, is this an actual metaphor for Brexit?)
- LAC-Tech 1y agoIslands off the cost of a continent are still generally considered to belong to the continent. IE Japan is still in Asia, Cuba is still in North America, etc.
- ljosifov 1y agoEh - for the world's audiences: EU is not Europe. I geddit how/why why people equate eu == europe - it would simplify things for all, one niggle less to consider. But - it ain't so, for better or worse. There are countries in Europe, that can't be members of the European Union, or could be, but don't want to be members. (e.g. UK, probably Island, Switzerland, some of the Nordics) There are no countries in the European Union, that are not part of Europe. So EU <= Europe. (unsurprisingly)
- flir 1y agoGotta factor in fire-and-forget donations vs repeat donations. So halve that number?
- refulgentis 1y agoI'm surprised you're reiterating surprise: you were off by two orders of magnitude, and the initial surprise only had purpose as a rhetorical device, it wasn't based on anything (why is > 10 surprising? 70M people in UK...)
- piker 1y agoYes, that was just reiterating the initial surprise which as you suggest was rhetorical mostly.
- tokai 1y agoWouldn't make a dent in their budget. They are not poor by any means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThe annual cost is about 150 million, and they have a war chest of half a billion? If I remember correctly. Yeah, I don't think anything will do a dent, unless like everyone decides to never donate again.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoWikimedia's expenses and wikipedia expenses are not the same. wikipedia does not spend anywhere near $150 million a year.