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Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by meesles on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:28PM (#37180851)
As a casual bystander, I don't understand why there isn't 100% transparency of a non-profit entirely funded by donations. I'm icked out by the repeat stories I keep reading about them, and if they're not willing to come out and just share the numbers, then I don't think I can continue trusting them as an organization.
Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by jasonlotito on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:35PM (#37180982)
There is transparency—ignorant people lie and make claims to cause controversy. A lot of this comes down to people thinking Wikipedia shouldn't continue to follow their original vision[1] and instead just limit themselves to just hosting a wiki site and that's it. Again, a lot of ignorance and lies.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective

Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by buildingsramen on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:10PM (#37181422)
Right here, a free, public, and professionally-designed report: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2022-annu...

Regular announcements of specific grants: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/04/13/first-grants...

Re:Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to... by akolbe on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:30PM (#37181674)
As the 2nd story on the linked page discusses, the $120M Endowment has never published one of those. It's completely non-transparent:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_W...