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What's the status on Wikipedia donations? (lemmy.world)

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I have donated in the past, but then there were wild accusations, people saying it's not needed, it's to fund other things, and so on and so forth.

Yesterday I got the popup begging for a couple of euros, so what's the status? Should I donate or is it a waste of time and money?

Cheers

Edit: Thanks for all the insightful posts! I'm jobless at the moment so just ten bucks this time:

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[-] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 week ago

I think it is a waste of time and money, honestly.

First off, I can't ever be sure some of the time that what I'm reading on some Wikipedia articles, are infact as true as they are written. I have stumbled upon articles that weren't fleshed out. People getting into editing wars about what information are on some articles and there is no universally accepted standard format to use on some things like band articles and listing their discographies and band history.

I just cannot in good will, donate to that kind of system. But hey, if you want to piss away your money to that kind of system, go for it. I'll save my money.

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