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by efficax 1249 days ago
I do find the wikipedia donation nags annoying (they go away if you register), and it's wild how much money they have. But Wikipedia is also one of the best things on the internet, one of the best holdovers from the golden age of the web. I don't feel bad that the people working on it are well paid. The world would be much worse without Wikipedia.
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blep_ 1249 days ago
A lot of the friction here is that the WMF (nonprofit who gets donations and runs servers) and the Wikipedia community (the unpaid people who write the content and run the project[0]) are separate entities. Many people in the community feel that the WMF is misleading donors into thinking the donations are for the latter.

[0] Including administrators. It's customary to say "btw I have never been paid to edit", completely unprompted, when accepting a nomination for adminship.

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legitster 1249 days ago
It's hard to imagine a world in which hiring full-time editors would not have much, much worse outcomes.
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