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Wikipedia is still running as per normal. But this has caused a great deal of reputation so damage to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. I think until everything comes out in the open, I'd be very leery about giving them any fundraising money.


Yes, for a foundation with $80M in assets overseeing the Wikipedia project the leadership sounds dangerously incompetent, considering that timeline.


It's not about small-time donors - Wikipedia solicits these only as a PR measure, the real money invariably comes in form of large grants, such as the Knight Foundation grant, and it's inevitably with strings attached. Think Obama's 2008 campaign.


That's nonsense. Small-time donors are what makes up more than 75% of the total budget. Major gifts are only 13%.

See: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Fundraising_R...


I know. My comment also applies to large donors.




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