If you poke around there you will see a million line items that can be accurately summarized as “not Wikipedia”. The wikimedia foundation is massively bloated because they have an infinite source of funding. I don’t even think all the projects they are doing are bad or anything, it’s just that they aren’t Wikipedia.
It’s highly unethical the way they solicit for donations and heavily imply that the donations are to run Wikipedia. They aren’t. They are spending all that money on other pet projects and pinkertons to do union busting.
I read through it and they have roughly 17 months of runway left to cover all their services. They don’t have “decades”.
Whoever this is claiming they have decades of pay is full of shit, and just saying they spend too much and have too much “bloat” when the non wikipedia stuff is like wikiversity and wikibooks, actual decent 100% free services with great intentions. Literally they are a non profit that survive on donations and spend 70% on payroll and data center services to offer us free shit.
The claim I made was only one sentence yet you only read half of it. The foundation has enough money to run Wikipedia for decades. The foundation has maaaaaany other projects that they currently pour money into.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
wikimediafoundation.org/…/financial-reports/
If you poke around there you will see a million line items that can be accurately summarized as “not Wikipedia”. The wikimedia foundation is massively bloated because they have an infinite source of funding. I don’t even think all the projects they are doing are bad or anything, it’s just that they aren’t Wikipedia.
It’s highly unethical the way they solicit for donations and heavily imply that the donations are to run Wikipedia. They aren’t. They are spending all that money on other pet projects and pinkertons to do union busting.
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks! I can’t really make much sense of it, do you know if there’s an example you can point me to?
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
I read through it and they have roughly 17 months of runway left to cover all their services. They don’t have “decades”.
Whoever this is claiming they have decades of pay is full of shit, and just saying they spend too much and have too much “bloat” when the non wikipedia stuff is like wikiversity and wikibooks, actual decent 100% free services with great intentions. Literally they are a non profit that survive on donations and spend 70% on payroll and data center services to offer us free shit.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The claim I made was only one sentence yet you only read half of it. The foundation has enough money to run Wikipedia for decades. The foundation has maaaaaany other projects that they currently pour money into.
See also: lemmy.world/comment/25698393