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I have donated in the past, but then there were wild accusations, people saying it's not needed, it's to fund other things, and so on and so forth.

Yesterday I got the popup begging for a couple of euros, so what's the status? Should I donate or is it a waste of time and money?

Cheers

Edit: Thanks for all the insightful posts! I'm jobless at the moment so just ten bucks this time:

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 5 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not giving money to Wikipedia anymore until they move out of the United States personally.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There is the concern of the us government getting your information through donations.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 9 hours ago

That is one of the reasons. The other reason for me is, Wikipedia's stated values are incompatible with staying in the US. So as long as they're there, they don't meet my expectations.

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org -5 points 5 hours ago

I think it is a waste of time and money, honestly.

First off, I can't ever be sure some of the time that what I'm reading on some Wikipedia articles, are infact as true as they are written. I have stumbled upon articles that weren't fleshed out. People getting into editing wars about what information are on some articles and there is no universally accepted standard format to use on some things like band articles and listing their discographies and band history.

I just cannot in good will, donate to that kind of system. But hey, if you want to piss away your money to that kind of system, go for it. I'll save my money.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de -3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (30 children)

Next time you think about donating to a foundation, look at their CEO‘s salary, then think again.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Have you a nice dark mode plugin going on that I should have?

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Dark Reader!

It's great. In some rare cases it breaks a website though, then you need to deactivate it.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Nice one. Will check it out.

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