[mike_d]

I agree. I wish the thread had stopped two or three tweets in. The random right-wing "culture war" ramblings are not cool and they detract from the important message that Wikipedia has solved the problem it was aiming to solve and is now hopelessly lost as an organization.

[zozbot234]

> Wikipedia has solved the problem it was aiming to solve

"A world where every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge" - that's quite far from being a "solved" problem.

[mike_d]

That is a solid example of a mission statement for an organization that doesn't have a mission anymore.

[KerrAvon]

In what sense? Since this is a culture war adherent spouting this stuff, how can you take any of it at face value?

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There's nothing biased about the foundation's own financial reports, review them for yourself: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

They place banner ads implying that donations are needed 'to keep Wikipedia thriving for years' which is a weird way to express that they annually collect over 50x their cost of maintenance in donations. And most of what they do collect gets distributed to 1) their employees (employees of the foundation are mostly not directly involved with running Wikipedia, which is edited and maintained by volunteers) and 2) other organizations that have absolutely nothing to do with the operation of the site.