Why you should stop donating to wikipedia.
TLDR; They are loaded with cash. They took your donations and still sold wikipedia to AI companies. They are sacking workers who try to unionise. They fired the people who most know how wikipedia actually works.
"The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. Wikimedia Enterprise, the team that provides high speed, high volume API access to AI labs, just turned profitable on $8.3 million in revenue, a 148% jump from the prior year... The point is the Foundation is rich. Seventeen-plus months of operating runway in the bank. Revenue diversifying, not shrinking. They can afford six engineers. Whatever this fight is about, it is not about money."
As if wikipedia selling the work of volunteers to AI companies was not enough, now they are coming for the workers.
"In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications."
If you have a wikipedia account you can sign the solidarity petition here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity#Signatures
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943