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Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by ALittleLight on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:44AM (#21703775)
For Wikipedia I donate money and not time. I agree, people can be possessive about their turf there, but I think that would only be a real problem if Wikipedia weren't amazingly good.

Wikipedia has a great output. In my view they don't need my time and effort. They're doing great now. When I see a message asking to donate money, I do, because I assume they do need that if they're asking for money.

Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by elect_engineer on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:39PM (#21705410)
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Re: "Wikipedia has a great output. In my view they don't need my time and effort. They're doing great now." We really need a lot more help here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Typo_Team

"The Wikipedia Typo Team is dedicated to improving the quality of Wikipedia by correcting typos and misspellings. If you see any typos (even minor ones), please correct them. This kind of editing is a never-ending job, so we could use your help! Please consider joining our team. All you need to do is start correcting typos."

Re: "When I see a message asking to donate money, I do, because I assume they do need that if they're asking for money." please read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikipedia-fundraising-drive-should...

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9qqds7Z3Ykd9Kdeay/...

http://thewikipedian.net/2016/03/11/modest-proposal-wikimedi...

Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017) by ALittleLight on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:33PM (#21709182)
These are pretty interesting. Is there a response to these concerns from Wikimedia?