Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to...
by theamk on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:27PM
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The page we are discussing lists specific grants.. which ones of those help with that goal?
There is nothing wrong with "matching racial justice leaders with machine learning research engineers to develop data-based machine learning applications", but that work is clearly not required to "create and distribute a free encyclopedia".
Wikipedia, it's purpose and intent is...
"to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language,' that's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal." - Jimmy Wales, 2008
The grants work to serve that goal. Of ensuring that everyone has access to that information and can use it.
So, my question is simple, if they didn't send the money to these organizations, but instead, used it instead to improve only, let's say, the machines it's hosted on, but you and whatever country you were in couldn't access it, would you still give them money? Wikipedia still exists for everyone else, but you and your fellow countrymen can't access it.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective