This advertisement is also misleading. Most people think they donate here to keep Wikipedia alive. However the wikimedia foundation behind wikipedia has already collected enough donations over the last few years to keep wikipedia running for multiple decades (!) to come. Therefore, these donations primarily go into other projects.
fckingmiracles on
It’s e-begging.
mrbrokoli97 on
Wikipedia is extremely greedy. They already have more than enough money.
astkaera_ylhyra on
It shows me the same message just with the country and currency changed to whatever my IP address resolves to
Clear-Conclusion63 on
The beauty of open source is that you can download and self host Wikipedia on your own computer, it’s even <1 TB. If something happens to it, it will be rehosted within hours (possibly by some malicious parties, but that’s why you need a local copy).
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They do this every year.
This advertisement is also misleading. Most people think they donate here to keep Wikipedia alive. However the wikimedia foundation behind wikipedia has already collected enough donations over the last few years to keep wikipedia running for multiple decades (!) to come. Therefore, these donations primarily go into other projects.
It’s e-begging.
Wikipedia is extremely greedy. They already have more than enough money.
It shows me the same message just with the country and currency changed to whatever my IP address resolves to
The beauty of open source is that you can download and self host Wikipedia on your own computer, it’s even <1 TB. If something happens to it, it will be rehosted within hours (possibly by some malicious parties, but that’s why you need a local copy).