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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by throawayonthe on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:31AM (#46633938)
i feel like that's a bit silly, the other projects are listed on the donation page (https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ) and tbh you are unlikely to be donating to the wikimedia foundation without being aware of (at least some of?) the rest
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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by arrowsmith on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:44AM (#46634157)
I promise you that 99% of normal people have no idea what the Wikimedia foundation is and think that they're just donating to "fund Wikipedia".
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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by throawayonthe on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:39PM (#46636224)
are normal people donating to wikipedia tho
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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by cm2012 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @01:38PM (#46637068)
Yes, the ads are essentially a guilt tax on normies who remember Wikipedia helped them in high school
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Re:25 Years of Wikipedia by bawolff on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:17PM (#46640173)
Honestly, most of the other projects get almost none of the resources (other then maybe wikidata and commons, but both of those are directly used by wikipedia)
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