Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects

Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by dale_glass on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:15PM (#37180678)

I'm not a big fan of re-donating donations in general. At the very least I'd want a good explanation of why this furthers the organization's objective.

Eg, if they donate to MariaDB because they use the database, or to the EFF because they offered legal assistance, that makes perfect sense to me.

But donating to an organization that doesn't directly benefit Wikipedia in any way, that's where I'm much more doubtful. I'd much prefer they just advertised them in some way instead, like during their donation drives.

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by kmeisthax on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:20PM (#37180751)

FWIW the current set of donations seems at least mostly aligned with Wikipedia's mission. The only thing I'm suspicious about[0] is "Data for Black Lives", which sounds like AI snake oil.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180695

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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by M2Ys4U on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:53AM (#37185635)

>But donating to an organization that doesn't directly benefit Wikipedia in any way, that's where I'm much more doubtful. I'd much prefer they just advertised them in some way instead, like during their donation drives.

The biggest donation is going to a charity managing an archive. A place that has important documents that can be cited by, oh I don't know, an encyclopedia maybe?

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