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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)
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[–] arthropod_shift@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If not them, who? I don't know of any project that comes close to Wikipedia, and as someone who doesn't know anything about their internal politics (although I'm open to learn), I feel like it would be a bigger tragedy if it went under. It seems to benefit from being independently funded instead of either being absorbed by some corporation with other motives, or being replaced by a product from some corporation.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Here is an article about the issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising/issues

There was a great graph which I cannot find about how Wikimedia (Wikipedia owners) is hoarding massive amounts of money and doing unnecessary fundraisers. Their capital has bloated to infinity. Wikimedia already is a corporation.

To top it off their owners are Zionists who tried to use their influence to stop the Wikipedia page calling Gaza a genocide but failed.

[–] arthropod_shift@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I read through the page and I understand the problem better, but I still don't know what I could do differently as an occasional donator. I found this for helping with development, but I'd prefer to support with donations since I don't really have time for more dev work. Is there some way to donate directly for the operating costs, or to volunteers, or something?