Poll: Poll: Does anyone else donate to Wikipedia?

[touch]

23TB that's tiny! Loads of people have 20tb+ just for their movie library!

That's about $6000 per year on amazon s3 storage. That's before you add on the bandwidth and processing costs for serving that data.
Sure, it's probably a fraction of what facebook costs to host but I still can't imagine anybody giving that service for free?

loads of companies out there willing to store hundreds of TB of images of people's wives and children for free, so why not Wikipedia

Not sure if I understand this - Are you asking why wikipedia dont advertise or have you not realised how advert-funded sites differ?

 

[esoteric]

Today was the first day I ever thought about. I needed info on DisplayPort and Wikipedia was the best resource for it.

 

[thedoc46]

I donated a little a while back.. must have been having a good day.

 

[ttaskmaster]

NVM

 

[Frozennova]

That's about $6000 per year on amazon s3 storage. That's before you add on the bandwidth and processing costs for serving that data.
Sure, it's probably a fraction of what facebook costs to host but I still can't imagine anybody giving that service for free?


Not sure if I understand this - Are you asking why wikipedia dont advertise or have you not realised how advert-funded sites differ?

Most of that 23TB is going to be sat inside a database, so the costs would be even higher

 

[byeo]

I like using Wikipedia but wouldn’t donate, I could live without it.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I couldn't have completed my degree without Wikipedia so I've just donated.

 

[Skillmister]

I give a few quid every year. The cost of a pint for a resource I used almost daily during my education and still end up using loads.. Money well spent

 

[MissChief]

Nope. And never plan to. This site https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-does-...xecs-get-six-figure-golden-handshakes-1625437 says they have over £90m in assets and are paying executives five or even six figure payoffs. They don’t need money at all.

 

[gronf]

I gave them 50 USD* once, several years ago, and that's all I'll ever give as it's surely more than enough for one person. I have Wikipedia on my bookmark bar thing and have spent countless hours on it.

*I'm a Brit living in the US.

 

[Vampyre]

i donate because it's a massively useful site. Well worth the £10 a year I give them.

 

[Skorpion]

Never donate.

 

[ahar]

Nope. They have loads of cash, more than they know what to do with .

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/

 

[englishpremier]

$50m just sitting there in cash. Another $55m in investments. It's a bit shameful really how the donation requests almost read like an Oxfam ad.

 

[Semple]

Nope. They have loads of cash, more than they know what to do with .

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/

Their operating costs look to be around 70-80 million $ a year. From what I've just read it looks like they're trying to secure $100million to secure the future of wikimedia.

Some of their internal costs seems astonishing.

They spend $18.5 million on technology, but only $4.5 million of that is used to cover the costs of the data centre.

$40 million goes towards staffing costs, and wikimedia reports that they have 300 staff. If they were all equally paid, they'd each be getting $133k. So it does suggest their senior leadership team must be earning a fortune!

Also $2.2million on travel expenses.

For a non-profit charitable organisation, they're sure not cautious about how they're spending their donators money.

 

[iamdjdz]

I don't donate because I didn't have it before hand and I if it went down I wouldn't have it afterwards.

However, when we were younger we bought the latest encarta every release so potentially I should as it's a very useful resource.

 

[Hodders]

I've donated several times. Amazing resource. Listen to the Jimmy Wales desert island discs.

 

[LizardKing]

donated, the wealth of knowledge on there surpasses anything else out there even with its shortcomings, it far better than for not being monetised.

its one of the few websites out there that keeps the intent of the internet true.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

£2 is nothing but are they pulling my plonker?
Surely something like Wiki must be rolling in it!
I use Wiki at least once a week usually for band discographies and if it went I'd be upset.

Why do you think they're pulling a fast one? 1% of readers donate? I'd say that was a probably optimistic. If you rely on donations you'll go to hell in a handcart adverts are the only thing that brings in money and even there the number that use adblockers is only increasing.

From personal experience of mods hosted on a mods hosting site approximately 10% of downloaders endorse a mod and less than 1% actually donate anything. Actually its more like 0.001% and even then its only a dollar or two. Despite thousands of downloads ive received just over 3 bucks in a year. So yes I can totally believe their figures.

 

[ianh]

I did until I ran foul of one of their editing moderator groups who refused to allow one of my edits to stand on a bit of military electronics kit which I'd worked on for 10+ years, despite providing reference material in the form of written, photographic and even video evidence showing why my edit was correct and then banning me from writing further edits when I asked for a reason why my edit was blocked.

I've also seen other stories about how a persons own wiki-page can be left with inaccurate information as the actual person the page is about is banned from editing the page, even over minor corrections like incorrect schools etc.