My spouse and I donate as generously as we can as often as we can. We donate for ourselves, but do as much as we can for those who can't. You, friend, have reminded me to make another donation.
It's not about keeping the servers running. Wikipedia is not your friendly hacker collective that needs to just have some machines to run their wiki on. I'm not saying you shouldn't critize them, that's important-- but please do it on an informed basis. There is lots of misinformation and framing out there, that's literally what Musk is doing.
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If I had any money to donate, I'd donate. Unfortunately, I've never been in a worse position.
My spouse and I donate as generously as we can as often as we can. We donate for ourselves, but do as much as we can for those who can't. You, friend, have reminded me to make another donation.
This one's not for you, it's from you
On this day we are all the fartographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
I do the default monthly donation, Wikipedia is a world wonder that has many frothing at the opportunity to burn it.
I have been donating $1.37/month for the past decade
You're a fucking legend!
I have donated a couple of times.
I donate from time to time. But the recent and heavy push has been… tiring. It’s almost putting me off from donating again.
I recently saw a thing about how many hundreds of millions (... billions?) wikipedia get, and how it'd be enough to keep wikipedia running for however many centuries... was it maybe in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3YZYEERhn8 amidst other grievances? [Edit: if it wasn't in that, doubtless dozens of other vids on it: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+donations+exposed ]
Puts a different context and feels on that message, huh?
U-huh.
Because the gatekeepers know best. Trust them. Pay no attention to the fallibility, conflicts of interest, censorship, etc etc etc.
It's not about keeping the servers running. Wikipedia is not your friendly hacker collective that needs to just have some machines to run their wiki on. I'm not saying you shouldn't critize them, that's important-- but please do it on an informed basis. There is lots of misinformation and framing out there, that's literally what Musk is doing.