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by gurchik 754 days ago
Funding that goes to editors (for example, stipends to travel to Wikipedia conferences) has been decreasing steadily each year. It's not due to a lack of money - Wikimedia consistently brings in millions of surplus revenue each year, see WP:CANCER[1] - so it's not clear that an additional revenue source will change anything.

^1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...