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Fuck musk
Leon Skum urges people not to donate? That’s a good reason to donate.
A freely accessible collection of human knowledge? Of course authoritarians hate it. An informed populace is their enemy.
All under the guise of “free speech”. Which, as we all know, means speech that align with Elon’s currently held opinions.
Just made my donation to Wikipedia, never have before, this news is as good a prompt as I could have ever received
I donated last night. The Christmas spirit moved me
You inspired me. Let’s keep it rolling.
Just donated
The claim about the budget is true.
A Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told Newsweek in an email that the chart’s equity section “refers to making it possible for more people to share reliable knowledge on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.”
The email continues: “Wikipedia is built on the premise that it becomes better when more people of different backgrounds—including political persuasions—source, edit, curate and research content. Our equity goal advances that. The ‘Safety & Inclusion’ goal (now titled ‘Safety & Integrity’ in our 2024-2025 plan) is focused on ensuring that people are able to freely access and safely contribute to knowledge on Wikipedia in a changing legal and policy environment globally.”
The spokesperson continued: “The goal centers on legal efforts that protect free expression, prevent censorship and advocate for laws and regulations that keep Wikipedia accessible for all to use.”
I don’t think that’s where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going, and I don’t think Wikipedia’s donation requests would lead these donors to realize that that’s where some of their money would be going.
Where your donation goes
Technology: Servers, bandwidth, maintenance, development. Wikipedia is one of the top 10 websites in the world, and it runs on a fraction of what other top websites spend.
People and Projects: The other top websites have thousands of employees. Wikimedia Foundation has about 700 staff and contractors to support a wide variety of projects, making your donation a great investment in a highly-efficient not-for-profit organization.
I suppose that “People and Projects” is vague enough that it isn’t false, but I was certainly surprised when I saw the actual budget allocation.
Edit: I accidentally posted this with an image from an episode of the Simpsons instead of the chart I meant to post. Please disregard that.
Your donation goes towards running Wikipedia. There’s a blurb for pitching that, with a few details, but if you want everything, you gave to go to another page and read it? That all sounds exactly like what I’d expect from a banner ad seeking donations for a website
How do you think employees get paid?
I assume that employee salaries are included in the category that corresponds to the work that they do.
I don’t think that’s where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going, and I don’t think Wikipedia’s donation requests would lead people to understand that that’s where some of their money would be going.
Why are you trying to frame this as if wikipedia was lying on where their funding goes when your own source is their own transparency article?
They’re not lying but they’re being misleading. Everyone who donates sees the donation page, but it’s reasonable to assume that almost all of those donors don’t read the “Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2023-2024/Finance” page.
I don’t think that’s where a lot of donors (especially but not exclusively conservative donors) want their money going
You don’t think people want to access Wikipedia safely and securely or guarantee an egalitarian sourcing of information?
I was certainly surprised when I saw the actual budget allocation.
“I didn’t know how a public-facing non-profit catalogue of information spent its money. Now I do. And I hate it.”
shrug
Why do people think their own personal ignorance is an indictment?
Never donated to Wikipedia in my life, but now I do, and its monthly. It’s not much, but it’s honestly work.
Fuck you I’m gonna donate even harder
Leave it to wingnut trolls like Musk to politicize everything.
this guy is really good at making enemies
He’s a vulture capitalist. Very good at finding ways to cannibalize a nice public thing for the benefit of a handful of private malicious actors.
That’s always going to make enemies. But so what? You’re a vulture. You can always pick up and leave today, then find another wounded animal to prey on tomorrow.
He’s such a snowflake
Musk is such a dumbass.
Could someone please take aim at Elon Musk?
Will no one rid me of this turbulent apartheidist?
Nice deep cut reference there. Well done
One can dream.
Reminds me to donate to Wikipedia … and download another updated copy of the entire Wikipedia database.
Got any links on how to do that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Kiwix seems to be the most popular app to browse offline web pages like this.
I’ve only ever used Kiwix … it’s the easiest and most easily installable on different devices.
I’ve downloaded the entire database about six times now over the past few years. I keep a duplicated copy everywhere … laptop, tablet, storage drive, portable drive, smartphone … in multiple places at home / cottage / relatives place
My latest download will only be to have an updated copy as my last one is about a year old.
I don’t like doomsday prepping and I don’t really prepare for anything. I’ve been self sufficient all my life and if the world ends, I’ll be able to make do on my own, I always have. But when it comes to knowledge and information, keeping a copy of Wikipedia is no-brainer for me.
I’m not the prepper person either, but I like to be self-sufficient and not be overly reliant on modern technology. My primary use case has been during travels.
I’d like to see how much of an uptick in these they’ve gotten lately. I’m gonna do this myself
Thank you Elon for reminding me to donate.
Do you want me to donate to Wikipedia? Because NOW I’m going to donate to Wikipedia
This news caused me to set up a recurring monthly donation, where I haven’t actually donated to Wikipedia historically.
Same. $5 a month is a small price to pay to ensure that Wikipedia remains free of this turd’s influence.
Actually thank you. Yep monthly I’ve have now set up
Thanks Elon.
I will join you
