Posted on 12/27/2008 9:56:08 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Dear Reader,
Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003.
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LOL!!! ask them!
The big clue....”Non-profit”
probably for about 3 minutes until the religion moderator corrects your ignorance.
my thoughts exactly. Stop being a left-wing propaganda site and you can get donations from those generous people who mostly are on the Right.
Wonder what the salaries are for the employees of this nonprofit.
Great... now Wikipedia needs a bailout.
Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world (and keep Jimmy Wales in beer money)
Wikipedia is something extremely rare - something brand new, never seen before in the history of the world.
I can’t remember Dave Mustaine’s (from the band Megadeth) exact quote but it was something about him liking to visit Wikipedia because he always learns stuff about himself that even he didn’t know.
I’d like to be able to put more faith in Wikipedia as I think the basic concept is good, but I always have to wonder how accurate the information is.
I use them fairly often for basic stuff.
Google recently up ranked their pages, their hits must be tremendous.
I read, The Register, that Google is going to come up with their own.
Unless you can think of a way they can donate someone else's money.
But guess what? I couldn't care less if the guy and his tiny staff of 23 are sworn Bolsheviks, bent on seizing every last scrap of private property worldwide. Whatever they are, the tremendously valuable resource they've created and maintain, Wikipedia, is bar none the best thing on the internet today, piddling errors and scattered biases notwithstanding.
Everybody involved in the project deserves high praise, and maybe a little change jingling in their pockets too.
Dear Jimmy,
No way.
A lot of the Wiki articles are well sourced and accurate. They have a bunch of good ones on the various left-wing and commie groups. I link to a few on my FR Home page.
My experience is they’re pretty good on scientific stuff. And you can use them as a link source - bottom of the page.
It’s the history pages, particularly recent history, that their editorialism creeps in.
It is the best encyclopedia that can be created by anonymous obsessives with pet agendas that border on religion who are trying to convince themselves they are neutral.
SELL AD SPACE ... you’re “Neutrality” is gone at your Globull Warming page, so a few extra $$ AIN’T gonna hurt.
Wiki is a cabal.
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