You can support just Wikipedia by contributing ;)

I think that Wikipedia just doesn't need that much money. If people just let them fail their fundraising goals, the core service will likely continue to get the same budget, but they'll cut their pet projects and parties.

I tried contributing and there are so many entrenched "don't touch my stuff" senior editors or moderators that it's often hard to do much of anything depending on where you are. I gave up after spending 40+ hours attempting to help clean up little known articles of a genre of music only to have 90% of what I did get reversed even though I am very confident it was within wikipedia guidelines. I was also harassed and accused of racism (by the subject of the article) after nominating his article for deletion because it didn't meet notability requirements.

Sadly this is not what happened with Mozilla.

Isn't it? Mozilla has cut or spun-off basically everything other than Firefox.

The most prominent project on mozilla.org at time of writing is Mozilla VPN. Pocket also gets substantial screen space dedicated: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/

Fair, though I would argue that those services are much more closely tied to the core experience of Firefox (and in particular the promise of safer, more private internet access) than something like Sunbird ever was.

Pocket and Mozilla VPN are prominent because they drive revenue which is useful to limit dependency on Google, thus greatly helping Firefox.

Pocket generates revenue for Mozilla.

Same as with me and Mozilla then:

I deeply dislike that these four things happens almost simultaneously :

- firing the people who create their biggest contributions to the free and open web ab also their main source of income

- supporting other efforts all over the place

- begging for money from the "community"

- while brushing me of in tje comments when I ask about progress on a 4 year old bug

- and the boss paying herself massive salary while Mozilla is dying

You can support Servo Project independently now :

https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo

While it doesn't directly contribute to Firefox itself (for now) I think this is worth supporting

> You can support Servo Project independently now :

Already do :-)

As for her salary, I won't make a point out of that: she has already negotiated orders of magnitude more than that in income to Mozilla.

i have felt the same many times... i think the "bug in the program" is: donation doesnt give you a vote/ownership.

i sort of feel like an interesting experiment might be an idea where donating above a certain amount (say 5 dollars) should give someone "a years ownership" and a vote in major policy decisions for that year, sort of like a consumer cooperative

also, in that model, a company couldnt just buy more shares and get more votes (like a stock)... that might be a better model... maybe

And a few wikipedia-like sites: wiktionary and wikidata in particular.