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Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#2No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti.... They'll be fine without my $5.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#3I do, I feel obligated to donate at least $5 per year as this is one of my most visited sites. The internet would not be the same without wiki, and it makes me feel like I am supporting the Internet by those small donations.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#4Absolutely. It's one of the small corners of the web that brings positive value to the world ad-free. It's brought significant value to my life. I'd like to see it continue, so I have a monthly donation towards it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#5No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti... . They'll be fine without my $5.
Thanks for sharing this!
I just donated a week ago after receiving yet another email that made it sound like they're barely making ends meet.
Now I feel cheated.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#6No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti... . They'll be fine without my $5.
Great link. What assets do Wikipedia have? Looking at that, they’ve made a “profit” every single year. Do they use this to purchase assets (as obviously non-profit can’t distribute profits)?
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#7No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti... . They'll be fine without my $5.
That’s the same argument used against voting. Your individual contribution may not matter, but the collective’s does matter.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#8No. The biggest value that Wikipedia provides is the content. None of the donations are going to the content creators, very little of them are going to covering IT costs. And a lot of them are used for paying big Bay Area wages to people in the foundation whose work I regard as highly peripheral to the core value provided.
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#9No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti... . They'll be fine without my $5.
Thanks for sharing this! I just donated a week ago after receiving yet another email that made it sound like they're barely making ends meet. Now I feel cheated.
it looks like they have some savings now, but wouldn't make it 2 years if they stopped getting donations. it makes sense to me that they would continue to fundraise unless they had an alternative recurring source of funding
Re: Ask HN: Do you donate to Wikipedia? Is their donation request motivating?
#10I have in the past but I probably won't again. It seems like they have enough money and they can pay their staff more than I make.