Only about ~1% of Wikipedia's funding goes towards their hostings :marseyderp:

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Have you guys tried denying a donation on the gibs request and telling them it's because of woke? A dude I know did a few years ago and then got an automated mail by one the higher-ups with 300 links showing how wikipedia is ackshually totes unbiased. Guy replied again, saying something to the effect of "lmao ok buddy sure" and then got a few mails from the guy himself malding.

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and then rational wiki and conservapedia clapped

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Share them

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Not doxing the dude, it was just some funny malding about how they're always neutral and shit like that. I'm told he gave up after a couple of emails.

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Just use a black box to censor your name and adress lol

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Lmao, it's my friend from Canada you wouldn't know him. I think it's easily partially replicable, I've told this story online before and I know people tried it and at least got the fricking "blah blah blah it's the fricking users cause wikimedia is fricking always neutral" automated mail.

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you can just keep yourself safe if you're gonna get doxxed from this, dont worry

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holy shit bro delete these comments and make an alt then

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Why?

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cuz then we get to read the response from wiki

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Oh it's just some guy malding a fricking bit, you can tell he's slightly pissed about it but nothing much.

Edit: it's not from jim wales, it's some other dude.

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That sounds funny.

Please share more

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Not much more to share, it's just funny someone actually reads your input. The dude used an address associated with a former "big-ish" donor, bigshot guy might have read it because of that.

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Brb replying “cause you love blacks” from [email protected]

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Their believe good faith priniciple in ediiting is beyond crazy. Sure im to believe this guy who has been edit warring every yikes person for the last 10 years is totally acting in good faith. Just suspense

all priors, logic and sense of self and totally works.

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How is Wikipedia supposed to be “woke”?

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Would it be so easy to make it Wokepedia if it wasn't? :marsey57:

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https://media.giphy.com/media/pGP4c8488ioAp9phUa/giphy.webp

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/1694996941593865.webp

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Hmm, maybe I'll try it :marseythinkorino:

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Their jannies do it for free so who the frick are they paying 88 million a year :marseyhmmm:

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It takes some actual expertise to maintain a website with that much traffic and attention outside of the neckbeards pressing edit article.

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I would assume that is part of the "internet hosting" cost.

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Nah you have the physical hardware hosting and then you have people who maintain that hosting.

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The MBAchads at the top

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Me

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>who the frick are they paying 88 million

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16949971007263043.webp

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That's actually making me seethe and mald a bit since I love Wikipedia. I know it's not perfect but I have spent thousands of hours just perusing Wikipedia's math etc articles. I love learning so much bros. Is it over for love-of-knowledge-cels?

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Get a TB drive and just dowload the database. Wikipedia already have a page where can download either 89GB of the entire english database with pictures or 46~GB of all of english wikipedia without pictures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

https://www.inverse.com/input/guides/how-to-download-wikipedia-offline

!nooticers !besties :marseylove:

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darn 89 GB even with pictures? i assume videos are left out

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:marseyagree:

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I actually did this and put it on an e-paper e-reader so I can read Wikipedia when I'm in the woods. It takes very little power. It's basically like how I imagined the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was when I was little.

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It's the same thing with Mozilla foundation. It's aggravating.

Looking at the breakdown though, this isn't really that egregious.

Their big expenses are salaries and grants. They need employees and grants are just them giving away money.. so.

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People take issue with the grants being based on politics and not wiki related.

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Yeah that's probably fair.

It's a similar thing with Mozilla and their financials are way more egregious.

Lunduke does good write ups on this stuff

wikipedia https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4458111/the-wiki-piggy-bank

firefox https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

linux https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4408159/linux-foundation-decreased-linux-spending-to-3-2-in-2022

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It's a similar thing with Mozilla and their financials are way more egregious.

Just use that money to help the browser teams somehow. There has to be a way without complicating the inter-entity finances. :marseycry:

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Enjoy your math articles while you can, because you know they will be next for cleansing once the autismo editor menace is done sanitizing history articles. The borg will consume all.

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How I sleep knowing I never fell for their donation scam :marseytoasty:

Wikipedia is an NGO first and an encyclopedia second

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Come on, mang, we need mo money fo dem hosting n shiet! If every reader would just donate 5 of dem dollaridoos, we could end this begging right now (and start another begging session next month again) :marseybeggar:

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What a grift lol, their overhead is almost 90%.

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/202/423/bZKqt.png

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Shit meme.

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2010 was a more innocent time

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:marseydisagree:

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Post more 2010 memes

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/908/149/09f.jpg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/493/362/462.jpg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/322/595/db4.jpg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/191/782/623.jpg

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/512/122/5de.jpg

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So that will be 1% for hosting and 99% for establishing the Ministry of Truth thx

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well that's based

how do i get in on this

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It just really sucks man. I hate nigerians and I don't want to have that as part of my DNA. No fourth Reich is going to take me in if I show them this to attempt to verify my purity. It means I'm fricking stuck in this country in all of it iterations and that's really depressing.

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Wtf snappy, Nigerians are like 5 times smarter than burger blacks

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K, I'll just keep donating to Internet Archive. They let me download complete rom sets and old Pimsleurs.

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:#gigachad2talking:

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From their form 990, the Board/C-suites comp is about twice their annual hosting costs.

Lol. Lmao, even.

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>Salaries and wages taking the most expense.

Of course, why wouldn't it be the case?

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i would expect that staff to run the site would exceed hosting, that's literally just bandwidth and either power for your server or a spot on some shitty shared server.

assuming wikipedia is large enough to have their own machines at a colo and small enough to not be running their data center

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