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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by judge2020 on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:33AM (#28639255)
Last I checked Wikimedia was primarily funded by big donors, with Google.org being one of them (and my understanding is that this is not a google donation matching program, but a direct contribution) https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/don...
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by ryan_lane on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:56AM (#28639714)
Wikimedia Foundation is funded primarily by small donations (<$100), during its fundraising campaign once a year. You're linking to a page that names donors who contributed $1000+.

Notice that Wikimedia Foundation has little to no influence over the content or community that runs Wikimedia sites. The money is primarily used for running the infrastructure, developing the software, paying the staff (a large percentage of which is spent on tech and legal), and organizing community events.

disclosure: I worked for Wikimedia during the earlier years.

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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by circlefavshape on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:43AM (#28639980)
Those are donors who have given over $1k. AIUI the vast majority of the wikimedia's money comes from small individual donations
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by xmprt on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:45AM (#28639329)
Is that purely a donation or is that payment to continue using Wikipedia contents in their search result cards and IOT devices?
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by judge2020 on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:52AM (#28639358)
No, not in regards to Google.org in the 2018 financials I linked (it’s at least not an official quid pro quo).

They have since asked for some compensation it looks like: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tec...

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