Not Having Any WikiGuilt: Donating To WikPedia Is Funding Crazy-Left Organizations

10/15/2022

In my July Diary I confessed to having suffered from Wikiguilt. Quote from self:

I use Wikipedia all the time while knowing how biased towards regime ideology much of it is … Wikipedia is evil but … handy. Hence my wikiguilt.

Well, now I have assuaged my wikiguilt. In response to a begging window that came up a few days ago, I am now paying $3.10 a month to the Wikimedia Foundation, supplementing whatever the DNC and Big Tech pay them for promoting their agendas.

Call me over-scrupulous; but if I’m using the thing, getting benefit from it, I ought to pay for it, if only at the minimum rate (which that monthly $3.10 is). Right?

Once again, that was me, speaking in July.

Then this week I saw this very informative tweet from someone using the handle “echetus.”

If you use Wikipedia, you’ve seen pop-ups like this. If you’re like me, you may have donated as a result.

Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I’ve now learnt the money isn’t going where I thought … pic.twitter.com/c81e9MhBjW
— Stakeholder Consultant (@echetus) October 11, 2022

Along with its accompanying tweets, it’s too long to quote in entirety, but it spills the beans on Wikimedia.

For examples:

Wikimedia’s spending has soared from $10 million in 2010 to $112 million by 2020.
Year 2021 website hosting cost $2.4 million, which is less than it cost in 2012.
Less than half of what they spend goes on directly supporting the website.
The rest of their spending goes to crazy-left organizations.
Actual quote — this one’s a doozy. Quote: “Back in 2017, a Wikipedian called Guy Macon wrote a strident article entitled ’Wikipedia has a Cancer.’ He predicted Wikimedia’s runaway spending would bankrupt Wikipedia, resulting in its takeover by Facebook or Google. Since then, Wikimedia’s budget has almost doubled.”

And so on. After I’d read these tweets I promptly canceled my $3.10 monthly subscription to Wikimedia.

Do please check out those tweets. The tweeter once again has the handle “echetus”. It’s the name of a rather evil character in Greek mythology. I know that because I looked it up… on Wikipedia.

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