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Today I donated to Wikipedia for the first time. I strongly encourage that if you’re seeing this you do too.
115 upvotes, 8 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in General. "Today I donated to Wikipedia for the first time. I strongly encourage that if you’re seeing this you do too."
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Anonymous 1w

I've been donating a dollar a month to the wikimedia foundation for many years

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Anonymous 1w

I did $50 years ago now and they still be asking me to keep doing it

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Anonymous 1w

looked into it a while ago and they have some predatory practices for small donors which really turned me off

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Anonymous 1w

Wikipedia uses a lot of their money to fund political campaigns, if they actually needed the money for the site I’d donate

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Source? Which? Also, the site is one of the few with no ads. Paying for no ads makes sense to me

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

me when I straight up lie

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annual-report/#toc-financial-accountability

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