Are you donating to wikipedia?

[The Sum of Awe]

It seems this popup comes up every four months. Something about "Please donate, just $2, please!!" This time it seems to be saying that Wikipedia might be sold if it doesn't get enough donations.

What are your thoughts on this?

On one hand, it's only 2 dollars. On the other hand, I feel like even if I did donate they'll just ask again in the next few months.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Wikipedia served a useful function for a time, but I don't stay awake at night worrying about it getting sold.

 

[Exaltist Ethan]

I donate $5 to Wikipedia, once, at the end of every year. I use Wikipedia a lot and find it valuable enough to help it, even if they don't really need my money.

 

[Sand Dancer]

It seems this popup comes up every four months. Something about "Please donate, just $2, please!!" This time it seems to be saying that Wikipedia might be sold if it doesn't get enough donations.

What are your thoughts on this?

On one hand, it's only 2 dollars. On the other hand, I feel like even if I did donate they'll just ask again in the next few months.

I donate a few bucks every so often.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Wikipedia served a useful function for a time, but I don't stay awake at night worrying about it getting sold.

I wonder who would buy it, though, and what it would turn into afterwards.

I donate $5 to Wikipedia, once, at the end of every year. I use Wikipedia a lot and find it valuable enough to help it, even if they don't really need my money.

That's good to hear you support since you find it useful. Do you think they don't really need the money?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I wonder who would buy it, though, and what it would turn into afterwards.

Hopefully not Elon Musk.

 

[JustGeorge]

I don't donate. I don't use it all that often to feel any obligation to do so.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

It seems this popup comes up every four months. Something about "Please donate, just $2, please!!" This time it seems to be saying that Wikipedia might be sold if it doesn't get enough donations.

What are your thoughts on this?

On one hand, it's only 2 dollars. On the other hand, I feel like even if I did donate they'll just ask again in the next few months.

I don't donate to Wikipedia. From everything I read, they're doing just fine already.

The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I don't donate to Wikipedia. From everything I read, they're doing just fine already.

The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia

Hmm. I understand that Wikipedia is a useful website and could deserve some sort of income, though. But lying to its users about how it needs it seems kinda whiny. If they really needed to they could always go the Advertisement route.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I don't donate to Wikipedia. From everything I read, they're doing just fine already.

The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia

It's reassuring that everything's fine though. I don't avidly use Wikipedia but I might once in a while.

 

[Stevicus]

It seems this popup comes up every four months. Something about "Please donate, just $2, please!!" This time it seems to be saying that Wikipedia might be sold if it doesn't get enough donations.

What are your thoughts on this?

On one hand, it's only 2 dollars. On the other hand, I feel like even if I did donate they'll just ask again in the next few months.

I've sent them a few bucks now and again, as I do visit there on occasion. Just like I paid for a premium membership on RF.

 

[sun rise]

The end of that article sums it up for me.

Clearly, Wikipedians are right to engage in vigorous discussion about how donations are solicited from visitors and to oversee how those funds are actually spent. For me, there’s also the small matter of the external environment. In recent years, Wikipedia has been attacked by authoritarian regimes and powerful billionaires—people who do not necessarily benefit from the free flow of neutral information. If $3 helps hold them off, then that’s coffee money well spent.

 

[icehorse]

I donate consistently. I'm of the belief that you don't get something for nothing.

 

[Viker]

I've tossed a few bucks their way. I use it just often enough to justify that.

 

[Truthseeker]

It seems this popup comes up every four months. Something about "Please donate, just $2, please!!" This time it seems to be saying that Wikipedia might be sold if it doesn't get enough donations.

What are your thoughts on this?

On one hand, it's only 2 dollars. On the other hand, I feel like even if I did donate they'll just ask again in the next few months.

I use Wikipedia all the time, so I thought it worthy to give it a donation. They'll ask again, but so what? I don't have to give it to them again.

 

[RestlessSoul]

£2 a month. It’s hard to imagine getting better value for money anywhere tbh.