Wikimedia Endowment Gets New $1 Million Backing From Amazon (cnet.com) 43
Amazon has donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund supporting Wikipedia, the e-commerce giant said this week. From a report: The gift was intended to support Wikipedia and its nonprofit parent Wikimedia, which Amazon relies on for answers on its Alexa voice assistant. It was Amazon's first ever to the free online information and education organization. "We are grateful for Amazon's support, and hope this marks the beginning of a long-term partnership to supporting Wikipedia's future," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a statement.
1 million dollars (Score:3)
Re:1 million dollars (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yeah, instead of having fifteen years of operating capital in the bank, now they have fifteen and a couple of months. Seriously, despite they hype they generate with their annual begging campaigns the Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia are swimming in buckets of cash.
Re:1 million dollars (Score:5, Informative)
Expenses (Score:2)
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Re:Expenses (Score:4, Informative)
Servers represent only 6% of Wikimedia foundation operating expenses. Staff is about 50%. For the details, see for yourself.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik... [wikimedia.org]
It's not the money (Score:2, Insightful)
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Like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Components_of_medieval_armour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Components_of_medieval_armour#/media/File:Gothic_armour_with_list_of_elements.jpg
Walk Away from CoCs (Score:1)
Free Software developers of the world, open your eyes! Our communities are bring raped, our work pillaged.
Detestable villains - mean spirited, bigoted, belligerent, vicious - are using underhanded tricks to force hypocritical "Codes of Conduct" on the projects we built.
The only purpose of these CoCs is to allow so-called "Progressives" to conduct witch hunts against anyone who opposes them. Thereby they plan to steal our work for their shadowy corporate paymasters.
You can readily tell these CoCs are not ab
Wikipedia editors are unpaid (Score:2)
Wikimedia Endowment (Score:1)