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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by oxfordmale on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:09PM (#37180601)
My donations to the Wikipedia foundation should solely be used to support the Wikipedia platform.

I make donations to many different charities, but I do my own due diligence, in particular how much money actually goes to the cause in question, rather gets used to pay an expensive C-suite.

Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by akolbe on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:32PM (#37182428)
Not too long ago, the Wikimedia Foundation spent nearly $1 million on two executives' severance pay. One had only worked there for 2.5 years:

Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029115

And for a laugh, see the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/style/katherine-maher-ash...

"The couple traveled around the world in early 2022 and moved to New York that June. ... On July 22, Erica Kochi, a friend of the couple who became a one-day deputy marriage commissioner in San Francisco, officiated the wedding before 140 guests on the lawn of Willow Camp in Stinson Beach, Calif. The day before, the groom rode in on a white horse for a Hindu ceremony.

“It was two days of cross-cultural celebration and community,” Ms. Maher said, “and a really big dance party.”"

I guess the donations helped pay for that as well.