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A note on the separate status of the Wikimedia Endowment. The Wikimedia Endowment, held from 2016 to 2023 by the Tides Foundation and now a standalone 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is not and has never been included in Wikimedia Foundation assets, even though Wikimedia Foundation fundraising staff solicit donations to the Endowment and the Wikimedia Foundation itself made donations to the Endowment.
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Until now, Wikipedia has not had to worry about satisfying anyone but its users with its site and page layouts. Something else to argue about. If a large amount of money begins flowing through Wikipedia, thousands of Wikipedia contributors might get distracted from editing and instead argue about where the money should go.
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Money directed to "support" me in these things is not large and I don't see why it need be. There are also volunteers who write our infrastructure such as mobile apps. To my mind, the resulting tools are inadequate, a patchwork of disparate parts that are difficult for us users to understand.
The Foundation does not write or curate any of the content on the projects themselves. [10] Instead, this is done by volunteer editors, such as the Wikipedians. However, it does collaborate with a network of individual volunteers and affiliated organizations, such as Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, user groups and other partners.
Now, your firemen example. So you come to a traffic light. Firefighters are preventing you from moving off, impressing on you that they are struggling to have enough money to keep the fire engines up and running, need your money today to continue to save lives. Alarmed, you give them $20 of your hard-earned cash.