It seems a bit silly to base this entire analysis on Wikipedia page views without exploring what else the WMF does.
And in any event, I have a really hard time getting worked up about the relatively small amount of money they deal with - and use to do a lot of good for the world - while corruption and greedy corporations are as rampant and filthy rich as they are.
Putting aside that I don't believe WMF is 'wrong' here at all, it's simply not reasonable or healthy to get upset about every wrong thing. One needs to pick their battles.
True that. Getting upset about pretty much anything is rarely useful. IDK who first theorized this, but usually people get upset when they don't fully understand the situation. They who truly grasp the entire situation can't get upset.
Personally I'm not worked up over it either, but I find the argument that this puts Wikipedia at risk persuasive. If it some point WMF racks up debts they can't pay and puts itself up for sale, these days probably Elon Musk or Larry Ellison would buy it.
To be fair, you don’t have any evidence that they could. It’s speculation either way. The only data we have is they spend more every year, and that they still have the audacity to aggressively fundraise constantly by plastering every article with ads begging for money. Sometimes I think I’d rather it just had a big banner ad for Coca-Cola on the top.
I'm not the one claiming anything, waving about some FUDy article.
> they spend more every year
They also bring in more money every year.
> audacity to aggressively fundraise constantly by plastering every article with ads begging for money.
This is ... really unnecessarily dramatic and not really truthful. They do a fundraise campaign once a year with an easily-closed banner, the proceeds of which they use to fund many projects that enrich humanity's collective knowledge.
Seriously, you guys need to direct your energy elsewhere. The WMF is not the type of org people should be complaining about on HN.
