Wikipedia is not short on cash
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Wikipedia is not short on cash
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Re: Wikipedia is not short on cash
#2Related, Guy Macon's Wikipedia has Cancer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...)
Re: Wikipedia is not short on cash
#3Instead of ignoring it, I installed Privacy Redirect and set it to redirect all Wikipedia links to wikiless.org.
This also got rid of the annoying "preview" feature.
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#4Related, Guy Macon's Wikipedia has Cancer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... )
Also related, in the Signpost, Wikipedia's community newspaper:
Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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#5Any time they ask for donations, I donate to archive.org instead.
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#6Note that the fundraising banners are currently only shown to a small percentage of readers – these are the October pre-tests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#W...
The actual fundraiser will come at the end of the year, when the banners will follow everyone visiting Wikipedia around for over a month (29th of November – 31st of December).
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#Current_fundrais...
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#7Any time they ask for donations, I donate to archive.org instead.
A very good choice, because the Internet Archive is financially far less secure than the Wikimedia Foundation and provides a vital service, by archiving Wikipedia sources before they go offline. This makes sure you can still see in five years' time what someone has cited in an article.
They also pay their executives far less.
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#8Also, the donation ui-flow is full of dark patterns like "don't you want to make that a recurring donation?" and the reason why they didn't get my money.
However, I do feel that an internet where we pay for the things we use is to be preferred over an internet full of advertisements.
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#9I've never been offered a higher salary than I was offered by wikimedia. I turned it down because their corporate culture is helllla creepy. I'm a private guy, and they expect everybody in the company to be somewhat public figures, down to the recruiters and office managers.
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#10Logged in users don't see the donation nags. Simple workaround therefore would be to keep yourself logged in.