[throwawayacc2]

I had a recurring donation set up for wikipedia. I really like it. It’s useful. But I hate woke politics. So, yeah, I no longer have that recurring donation.

I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.

[oefrha]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund (Warning: filled to the brim with pc vocab.)

That was painful to read. If I wanted to promote “knowledge equity” I would focus on education in low and middle income countries, rather than pouring money on affirmative action in the richest country in the world and throwing fuel on culture war in said country and elsewhere.

I used to donate a small amount annually. No more from now on.

[mavhc]

So you'd suggest they gave money to, for example, Media Foundation for West Africa: The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending the right to freedom of expression, particularly for media and human rights defenders, throughout the 16 countries in West Africa

or

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (US$250,000): The Arab Reporters in Journalism (ARIJ) is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Jordan?

[oefrha]

You missed the word “education” in my comment.

Books, Internet-in-a-Box, etc. for poor children in underdeveloped countries, now that kind of projects would be knowledge equity.

[feoren]

> pouring money on affirmative action in the richest country in the world

Are they spending that much money in Norway?

[NaturalPhallacy]

>I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.

They're in a cult and they don't realize it. Woke politics has every negative hallmark of a cult. Original sin, excommunication, heresy...

[marcinzm]

>I genuinely don’t understand why people feel the need to shove their ideology down peoples throat every chance they get.

My perception is that every major ideological group is doing this and has been since civilization started. Most people don't mind as long as the ideology aligns with their own ideology.

[__s]

The major ideological groups which don't do this aren't talked about, which may cause you to think they aren't major

[theblazehen]

Can you elaborate on what woke politics they have?

[mellosouls]

The advocacy fund is linked in the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Foundation#Advocacy_Fund

Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and policy initiatives in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and human rights.

While those policy areas are not in themselves necessarily negative, they have a clear political slant which is the ground associated with woke activism.

It's not obvious what it has to do with Wikimedia.

[Ekaros]

Also they sound extremely localised. As someone outside extremely wealthy and rich USA why should my money go to that sort of political organizations there. Why don't they use their own money for it?

[happymellon]

None of those sound bad, but one organisation that tries to focus on all of them?

You'll end up trying lots of things but poorly, or find that they cross influence to make things efficient. Why work on labour issues when you can deal with women's labour issues?

And especially if they are being funded via manipulation, such as paying for Wikipedia's servers, means they would lack the oversight from donors which is not an effective way.

[chris_wot]

It’s also an American organisation, and yet the WMF has a global remit.