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I give 5€ per year to Wikipedia
#1
Many years ago I started giving them 2€ a year because they used to say that it would be enough for them to survive. Last year they asked for more and I gave them 5€, so this year I receive their letter again

Quote:About a year ago, you donated €5 to keep Wikipedia online for hundreds of millions of readers. I'm surprised by and deeply grateful for your continued support. You are part of the 2% of readers who donated to support Wikipedia. We need your help again this year.

I help them because I'm often led to their site when I want information on such or such subject of general knowledge. For example a common fig tree started growing in my garden, so I go to the wikipedia page about common fig and I can learn plenty of things that I don't know about this plant. I think the number of times such occasion happen in the year is well worth my 5€ and it helps make this knowledge available to billions of people.

Do some of you give money to Wikipedia too?
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#2
i usually give to them every year, sometimes quite generously.
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#3
I haven't yet, but your post prompted me to finally do so, they well deserve it.
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#4
I haven't and I won't.

I won't pay propaganda and I have many proofs that people are misusing Wikipedia to spread their ideology and to fake history.
The German Wikipedia is a plague. Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQWqzh6...kBJ5sy3SqA
The people of Wikihausen have sued a few people. Some of them are active in parties and some of them are Teachers.
Almost dead, but too lazy to die: https://sourceserver.info
All humans together. We don't need politicians!
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#5
Obviously many people, businesses, organizations, states try to influence Wikipedia's content. If there was a Wikipedia page about DeaD_EyE, you would probably be tempted to influence the content of this page to not let anybody write anything about you. Political and financial interests exist. Sometimes there are fierce fights about the content of some pages but I think all this is inherent in the internet. It seems to me that Wikipedia resists rather well to these pressures and it does not invalidate the large base of information that it displays. If I read the page about p-n junctions, it was probably not written by the chinese secret service. Let's not turn paranoid.
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#6
I use Wikipedia almost every day, sometimes many times every day.
I usually verify what I look up as some content, understandably, is not fully factual.
I find it an excellent starting point when, for instance I need a URL for a particular subject.
I'll search for the subject, then look through the bibliography to find sources that might not turn up in the normal search engines.
To me that alone makes it worth supporting the site.
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#7
(Aug-30-2020, 05:43 PM)DeaD_EyE Wrote: I won't pay propaganda and I have many proofs that people are misusing Wikipedia to spread their ideology and to fake history.
The German Wikipedia is a plague. Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQWqzh6...kBJ5sy3SqA
The people of Wikihausen have sued a few people. Some of them are active in parties and some of them are Teachers.
Got any English resources for that claim?
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#8
(Sep-01-2020, 12:11 AM)micseydel Wrote: Got any English resources for that claim?
No, sorry.

I hoped that they have written some articles, but the whole content is in videos. Maybe the automatic translation could help.
Prevoisly they worked together with "Gruppe 42" and there are some articles about Wikipedia and what they do: https://gruppe42.com/2019/04/05/wikipedi...ikihausen/

You can use deepl.com for a good translation.

PS: This is a plague that content is more and more only available in videos. I like text.
Almost dead, but too lazy to die: https://sourceserver.info
All humans together. We don't need politicians!
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#9
Something noteworthy was recently discovered:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/commen...e_article/

Quote:Reddit post title:
I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots

Follow up on meta wikimedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests..._Wikipedia

This problem pertains to the smaller of the 300+ language versions of Wikipedia, not the English or German ones obviously.
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#10
I won't donate to Wikipedia; not because they are biased from top to bottom, or have terrible quality control, but because I am at heart a leecher.
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