2010 AskReddit thread asking for Wikipedia donations

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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • 9y

I know we're all making fun of Jimmy Wales' creepy stare on Wikipedia. But seriously... have you donated?
Wikipedia is fucking fantastic. Go donate a few bucks if you haven't already. Most of us use it several times a day, and I think it's reasonable that they ask for our donations once a year.

I'm sorry that this post isn't exactly "AskReddit" material, but I think this subreddit is where it'll get the most attention. This is really important. Seriously, can you imagine the internet without wikipedia?

As I'm a poor college student, I was only able to afford $20 this year. But if everyone who reads this matches my donation, that should raise a significant amount of money, enough to ensure that Wikipedia can keep their site running free of charge and completely ad-free, at least for another year. I've donated a lot of money to them in the past, because without Wikipedia I would have failed half of my classes, and I would know a lot less than I do now.

One comment says:

I disapprove of the deletionism on Wikipedia

[ericbarbour]

I disapprove of the deletionism on Wikipedia

FWIW I attempted to gather examples of people complaining about WP's crazy operations, and gave up. Too many to choose from. On Reddit, Slashdot, Twitter, Facebook, you name it. They were very scarce until around 2009-2010 when Wikipedia's editing decline and its control by wacked-out deletionist patrollers became impossible to ignore.

(Any attempt to post criticism of Wikipedia on Quora quickly disappears. Because Jimbo was a co-founder. That little fuck is guilty of unknown thousands of censorship attempts--against anyone critiquing him or his "creation". Lol.)

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Because Jimbo was a co-founder.

I thought that guy from Alabama was just investor?

[ericbarbour]

I thought that guy from Alabama was just investor?

Wait a minute. Did you not realize that a) Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia AND of the WMF, and b) in 2006 he tried to write Larry Sanger, one of the OTHER co-founders, out of wikipedia's history, and make HIMSELF the only founder? Do I need to post the "Jimbo Found Out" transcript?

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I thought that guy from Alabama was just investor?

Wait a minute. Did you not realize that a) Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia AND of the WMF, and b) in 2006 he tried to write Larry Sanger, one of the OTHER co-founders, out of wikipedia's history, and make HIMSELF the only founder? Do I need to post the "Jimbo Found Out" transcript?

Cracks are showing. Jimbo and criticism does not mix well…

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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • 9y

I know we're all making fun of Jimmy Wales' creepy stare on Wikipedia. But seriously... have you donated?
Wikipedia is fucking fantastic. Go donate a few bucks if you haven't already. Most of us use it several times a day, and I think it's reasonable that they ask for our donations once a year.

I'm sorry that this post isn't exactly "AskReddit" material, but I think this subreddit is where it'll get the most attention. This is really important. Seriously, can you imagine the internet without wikipedia?

As I'm a poor college student, I was only able to afford $20 this year. But if everyone who reads this matches my donation, that should raise a significant amount of money, enough to ensure that Wikipedia can keep their site running free of charge and completely ad-free, at least for another year. I've donated a lot of money to them in the past, because without Wikipedia I would have failed half of my classes, and I would know a lot less than I do now.

Hm, Posted by u/bricker, who deactivated between June 9 2011 and Aug 9 2011. This person lived next door to Boston Symphony Orchestra for a time and is likely to be around 30 years old.

(trimmed second part of OP for clarity)

[ericbarbour]

Hm, Posted by u/bricker, who deactivated between June 9 2011 and Aug 9 2011. This person lived next door to Boston Symphony Orchestra for a time and is likely to be around 30 years old.

Not an unusual comment for a "poor college student" to post. Millennials really swallowed the Wiki-Redpill hard. And I suspect the "Gen Z" coming up behind them is even more clueless. The millennials are having "Generation Alpha" children now--god knows what THEY will think of Wikipedia in 10-20 years. Don't make any sucker bets.....