Ich war im Wiki, als das plötzlich aus dem Nichts auftauchte und mich verwirrte, es scheint sehr frisch zu sein
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Von F1aken
Ich war im Wiki, als das plötzlich aus dem Nichts auftauchte und mich verwirrte, es scheint sehr frisch zu sein
https://i.redd.it/0xvwil1ump3h1.png
Von F1aken
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Nothing fishy, this is Wikipedias yearly campaing.
Is this your first time on Wikipedia?
I got this on May 5. Gotta admit it was pretty convincing so I did donate. Probably not an emergency really but I think they deserve it anyway
Wait till you learn what cookies are
They do this fundraising once a year I think. Honestly, I think it’s fair to donate some money, considering that I use it all the time, there are no ads and even if I can’t cite them in my work, I can always check their original source.
Yeah I paid them 5zl (and also covered the transaction fee so it was 6zl)
I give my 1% tax return to them every other year
Daily reminder that wikimedia gives a small % to actually keepinig wikipedia alive. When u donate $15 to them, only few cents at best are going towards severs/staff etc. Most of the money goes to their foundations. Don’t wanna say they kinda laundering this money, but it looks like that with those shady projects to support trans/lgbtq/minorities people. But it’s not nice to criticize fundraising to minorities so nobody’s looking into that.
Czy tylko mnie zastanawia dobór zdjęcia? Już parę tygodni mnie to gnębi. Serio to jest najkorzystniejsze? To jakiś przekaz podprogowy? Ja wiem że nie o to chodzi i być może jestem przewrażliwiony ale litości.
Edit: literówka
This is so sad that OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic etc. sucks a tons of data from Wikipedia for free and Wikipedia struggle to fund itself…
It’s not fishy, it’s happening every year
https://youtu.be/MpeOFvxor_0?is=LWFsWaVT3p5ACFy9
Sadly this is kind of misleading on their part – wikipedia has A LOT of money in their reserves, they are not close to bankrupcy or anything similar. in fact they are quite rich.
The best spend money ever. So important, especially now in the ai and disinformation era
I have not visited even once since beginning of this year.
Tbanks.dor the reminder. I will pay twice as much💵
Wikipedia cannot be sold, but surely it can bust unions! [https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1tkx96l/wikimedia_foundation_lays_off_engineers_from_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1tkx96l/wikimedia_foundation_lays_off_engineers_from_the/)
I don’t think they need our money.
„For the 2024–2025 fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia) generated a total revenue of 208.6 million. Of this, $189.5 million was raised through donations, while the newly launched **Wikimedia Enterprise** business segment contributed $8.3 million.“
[https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/24/highlights-from-the-wikimedia-foundations-fiscal-year-2024-2025-audit-report/](https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/24/highlights-from-the-wikimedia-foundations-fiscal-year-2024-2025-audit-report/)
I’m proudly giving my 1.5% to Wikimedia Foundation
Notice emotional language, they don’t need any money btw 2% of what they earn is used to host wikipedia
picture unrelated
https://preview.redd.it/q2j4asum6q3h1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=aec3d81034dd175d95b9187c04ce7ea4575d0c2f
https://preview.redd.it/pxng7m7b7q3h1.png?width=735&format=png&auto=webp&s=e22269a9b55aa56031ad2140091f2e65b934658c
And now main beneficiaries of Wikipedia are AI models
The wording is too pushy this year, too marketed, creating a sense of urgency but not saying much. first year in 4 I didn’t donate.
If I’m not mistaken several years back they already raised enough money for next 100 years, to ensure future generation has knowledge,they also have many investments, yet they still gather money even in developing countries. So it’s not going anywhere whether you donate or not.
They’ve been running out of time for 10 years now
TL;DR?
Too bad that they are getting money for bs wikimedia and not actual wikipedia