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Wikipedia wouldn't do that for two reasons. One, it would force a lot of people to spend a few seconds thinking about what Wikipedia is and is not. And two, it might prompt Google …

The Wikipedia movement is in survival mode, and has for a while now being summarily dumping those things that require lots of volunteer effort to maintain, for very little return i…

You have a strange definition of value. I'd wager Wikipedia hasn't prevented a single child dying of hunger, let alone millions.

The $100m Endowment was their hedge against donations drying up, being a big enough cash hoard to allow them to stay online indefinitely if donations dropped to zero. It is now ful…

You aren't paying for a product. It's crazy people don't even realise that Wikipedia isn't free because they're just nice people who prefer prefer run on donations not capitalism. …

I wonder if that also includes all the work done simply to figure out the best way to solicit for donations?

I wouldn't be so sure. Many flagship software projects launched the Foundation have been greeted with outright hostility by the volunteer community, precisley because they don't se…

"It's on the same scale of facebook, youtube or twitter, activity wise." {citation needed}, as they say. Some parts of the Wikipedia "global" movement are so small, they didn't eve…

"MediaWiki is free software. No guarantee or warranty of any kind is provided." Sounds about right!

It's the best kept secret of Wikipedia that the volunteers generally despise the Foundation, and their long history of being unresponsive to their concerns and slow to act on their…

Keeping Wikipedia accurate is the volunteer's job. You can tell by how easy it is to find errors.