Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t...
by SpelingBeeChamp on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:05AM
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What are the “other projects” you are referring to?
Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t...
by AmericanChopper on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:28AM
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Everything on this list that isn’t Wikipedia, along with essentially all of the research they fund.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Complete_list_of_Wikimedia...
You don’t have to put it in air quotes like you’re making some sort of point. Calling everything they fund a “project” is the language Wikimedia use in their budgets and governance documentation.
If you were actually having trouble thinking of a single project they operate other than Wikipedia, then perhaps you might also have some questions about what they do with 90% of their revenue.
Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t...
by SpelingBeeChamp on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:42AM
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You are reading way too far into what I wrote. I was only asking a question. The “air quotes” were quotes. Because I was quoting you, and that’s when you’re supposed to use them. Like above.
Thank you for the link. I was unaware.
Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t...
by AmericanChopper on Thursday June 03, 2021 @04:02AM
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Using quotation marks in that fashion is widely understood that is has its own wikipedia page (though they have a different name in print).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
But don’t worry. I’m sure you really were just “quoting [me]”.
Wikimedia has one project I’m slightly interested in, and spends most of their money on other projects that I’m completely uninterested in, and would personally consider to be largely a useless waste of time. They aggressively fundraise with a message that implies their single product that everybody cares about is financially imperilled. In reality, if they’d been run responsibly, the one valuable thing they produce could have already been financially secured for decades into the future.
I really just don’t care about what they spend most of their money on, I think they’re deceitful in the way that they fundraise, and all I hope is when all of their side projects eventually fail, that their core product survives in some form.