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How Much Does a Wikipedia Page Cost and Why?, a LinkedIn blog post, with the first sentence A Wikipedia page costs £2040, linking to wikinative.com. Curiously, it also links to the WMF blog post — one way to see that is that the "people will believe what they want to believe rather than what has the best evidence" factor is strong enough ...
But when you registered for Wikipedia, you don't park at the door your right (and sometime duty) to report crimes. In short don't talk about it, though when you think it is the right thing to do, just report the crime to the authorities. You might think that, in the US, you should report to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission aka the FTC. From ...
A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the site has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, under which anyone can edit most articles, has led to concerns ...
The majority of funding for the Wikimedia Foundation comes from individual donors all around the world. These donations allow the Foundation to provide the world-class technology infrastructure that supports 15 billion monthly views to Wikipedia and its sister projects, protect free knowledge globally through legal and advocacy efforts, and support the incredible volunteer editors who have ...
Andreas: Andrew Lih said five years ago in the Washington Post, "People will come up to me during fundraising season and ask if Wikipedia's in trouble. I have to reassure them that not only is Wikipedia not in trouble, but that it's making more money than ever before and is at no risk of going away." The WMF is $200 million richer today.
In 2021–2022, the Wikimedia Foundation took $165,232,309 USD from over 13 million individual donations, an increase of more than $10 million over the year prior. $58 million, or 35.1% of the donations total, was brought in by banner campaigns on Wikipedia. The breakdown was as follows:
"Reddit is going nuts over Wikipedia's spending, but it's doing far better than its competitors". Quartz Redditors are getting worked up over a post titled, "Wikipedia has cancer." Its author is a longtime Wikipedian named Guy Macon who analyzed the spending of Wikipedia's owner, the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.