"To all our readers in the UK, We will get straight to the point: This Wednesday we ask you to protect Wikipedia's independence. It's December 6 and time is running out to help in 2017. We depend on donations averaging about £10. Only a tiny portion of our readers give. If everyone reading this gave £2, we could keep Wikipedia thriving for years to come. The price of your Wednesday coffee is all we need. When I made Wikipedia a non-profit, people warned me I’d regret it. Over a decade later, it’s the only top ten site run by a non-profit and a community of volunteers. Has it crossed my mind how much we could have made if it had ads? Sure. But we wouldn’t be able to trust it. The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working passionately to bring you unlimited access to reliable, neutral information. Please help keep Wikipedia growing. Thank you. — Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder"
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you(Which of course varies greatly).
Whales has some nerve, begging for money, while he's living it up at the Ecuadorian embassy.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I met Jimmy Wales once, nice guy.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's not perfect but it's bloody handy.
To be honest, I only use the site as it is often forced to the top of searches. I don't particularly care where I get my info from and I don't plan to pay whilst it is free info elsewhere.
It's that time of year again. As the Christmas lights go up, Wikipedia's donation drive kicks off. Wikipedia claims that the donations are needed to keep the site online. Guilt-tripped journalists including Heather Brooke and Toby Young have contributed to Wikipedia in the belief that donations help fund operating costs. Students, who are already heavily in debt, are urged to donate in case Wikipedia "disappears".
But what Wikipedia doesn't tell us is that it is awash with cash - and raises far more money each year than it needs to keep operating.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/I have done quite a bit of editing (and created a few pages!) in the past, but don't donate money.
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I wouldn’t give them a penny
I don't respond well to begging emails / pop ups or phone calls. I tend to support local causes of my choosing, either by donating or more often volunteering. I find the bigger ones wasteful and dodgy
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youflagged. Changes are reverted back to nonsense and inaccuracies in days, sometimes hours.
Got to admit I’ve not challenged it in any great detail, but neither would I take everything as absolute truth, but I like it’s broadly scientific approach and in the age of David Wolfe, Info Wars, Food Babe, Natural News etc it’s far more open and logical. At least it’s asking for money rather than back door advertising and being open to interigation. But that’s a minefield in itself, I suppose.