Poll: Poll: Does anyone else donate to Wikipedia?

[h4rm0ny]

I used to donate each time they did one of their fundraising drives. I stopped when they got involved in the "Monkey Selfie", taking an anti-copyright stance and ripping off the photographer. At the time, I expected to donate again in the future but then I started to come across examples of cultural and political bias that I really disliked. Taking a TRA (Trans Activist) stance for example. As others have said, once you've seen some of the control and bias behind the scenes, you never quite regain your trust in it. For Science and Mathematics, I have reasonable trust in it. When it comes to society and politics, I'm a lot more cautious these days.

Wiki won't fall under, if they didn't quite get enough donations some big corp would fund it.

The point is, they're trying to AVOID that. And I don't think you can credibly argue that Yahoo!Pedia, Bingpedia! or whatever else would be worse.

 

[Semple]

HP throws away servers all the time .

Care to expand on that?

I can assure you that HPE does not "throw away servers" all the time.

 

[CircleFaust]

i've donated once and i will again. not very much mind, like £1
i use it all the time

 

[gord]

I bet Jimmy Wales isn't short of a bob or two.

It's so weird to see people justify why they can't/won't donate. He's a few bob shorter than Mark, and Wikipedia is a significantly more enriching resource for the human race than Facebook.

I have donated and will donate again.

 

[Rilot]

Now we talk about server hardware, HP throws away servers all the time . Do people think Wikipedia renews their hardware monthly or something? It's doing the SAME operations it's been doing since 10 years ago, the volume of requests will have gone up relatively, but we're not talking about any major technical advancement, we're not going from 240p Youtube, to 8K Youtube, text remains textual. There is absolutely ZERO technical advancement/increase for running the wiki.

You clearly have not worked in enterprise IT or you would know that supportability and resilience are the most important factors. Old servers are neither supportable nor resilient and so they get replaced. Wikepedia will have a rolling replacement of hardware ever 5 years ish (assuming that they even own their own kit which they might not). Then there's DC hosting costs and colo costs. Not to mention software licensing which is an ongoing opex cost.
It's not a case of grabbing a bunch of old servers and storage, shoving them in a DC and letting it run.

 

[bledd]

I don't, but I do make sneaky edits into the Wikipedia pages of small towns that my friends come from and reference said friend(s) in those wiki pages

Freeware software, that is who I donate to.

 

[Concrete]

I used to but as previously has been mentioned, in the last few years they have become increasingly political and partisan to the point where opinions are starting to be presented as facts.