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Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia
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Wikipedia does funnel money into charity causes that aren't related to their mission of bringing knowledge to the world. I personally have a hard time reconciling that with the constant begging for donations. I'd rather they set up an endowment or focus the money on items related to the mission.
That being said, paying people well to get bright people working on their mission is a no brainer.
First I'm hearing this also - what unrelated causes to they support?
Sauce?
Wikipedia as an organization does this?? News to me so I'd love a source on that. I would not be surprised if people that work at Wikipedia donate to charitable causes or speak out about social issues, but that's a very different thing called free speech
Even internally, there's a lot of complaints about the tone of the donation drives. What's scary is that these are the pleas that passed. Worse ones were vetoed by community vote.