Wikipedia Donations.

Neoni · 3 Dec 2013 at 02:09

Well, it seems like they're asking for help towards their fundraiser?

What do we think?

Monkeynut · 3 Dec 2013 at 02:12

It got me through GCSE so sure, why not.

muon · 3 Dec 2013 at 02:53

The greatest product of the internet. When you look at Brittanica these days, you can only laugh at how much people paid for something a fraction of the detail found in wikipedia.

Also brilliant for education, at all ages.

Knowledge is also freely available to nearly everyone.

ic1male · 3 Dec 2013 at 03:16

I really ought to. I use it at least 20 times per day.

Hades · 3 Dec 2013 at 07:45

An article about Wikipedia fund raising from last year but no doubt still relevant:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/

dirtychinchilla · 3 Dec 2013 at 08:37

I donated £5 once because of how much they'd helped me with my work, hah

Theophany · 3 Dec 2013 at 08:51

Pretty sure I owe them my GCSEs, A Levels and degree, so why not.

Shamikebab · 3 Dec 2013 at 09:16

I donated last year, the website is immensely useful.

eatcustard · 3 Dec 2013 at 09:43

Its good, but not always accurate.

NoNameNoNumber · 3 Dec 2013 at 09:49

eatcustard said:
Its good, but not always accurate.

This, and it wasn't an accepted reference for my final engineering reports.

Greboth · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:00

NoNameNoNumber said:
This, and it wasn't an accepted reference for my final engineering reports.

I thought everyone knew you couldn't use them for reference in work, though a lot of the really useful articles are heavily referrenced to other pages anyway and you can use them without problem

Judgeneo · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:08

We convinced to board recently to allow us to roll out corporate wikis instead of sharepoint. Far better for an engineering company, and will save hundreds of thousands. We should probably donate

Lareon · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:16

if you're referencing something it's always best to have more than one source so wikipedia is a great way to find sources to back up most statements, just using wikipedia itself as the reference isnt a good idea as it can change daily based on opinion but the references will tend to stay static

Burnsy2023 · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:19

eatcustard said:
Its good, but not always accurate.

No source of information is always accurate.

CircleFaust · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:38

i donated a quid before, it's very helpful

iamtheoneneo · 3 Dec 2013 at 10:39

Neoni said:
Well, it seems like they're asking for help towards their fundraiser?

What do we think?

Why do you disagree?
They always do this, they refuse to run ads or other means of funding at the benefit of its users.

Im sure everyone here have used the site many times so chucking a few quid their way to keep their hefty servers up shouldnt even be a discussion.
Just chucked in a few quid myself, hardly breaking the bank.

gillywibble · 3 Dec 2013 at 11:08

I donated once, and never would again. Some of their information is deliberately misleading.

Indigo · 3 Dec 2013 at 11:24

gillywibble said:
I donated once, and never would again. Some of their information is deliberately misleading.

Care to expand a little on that? I find it hard to believe that they'd knowingly put misleading information on there. Not in there interests at all. :rolleyes:

dbmzk1 · 3 Dec 2013 at 11:33

IndigoGorilla said:
Care to expand a little on that? I find it hard to believe that they'd knowingly put misleading information on there. Not in there interests at all.

See the link above. They basically beg for donations saying the site will go down if you don't and yet they have tons of surplus cash they spend (or don't) on random projects etc.

grumpysculler · 3 Dec 2013 at 12:23

NoNameNoNumber said:
This, and it wasn't an accepted reference for my final engineering reports.

Well given WP:NOR, that's hardly surprising but you can always go and look up the original reference...