On: Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

[nostromo]

If you choose to donate, know that a small fraction of your donation goes to Wikipedia. Most of your donation goes to unrelated projects.

Wikipedia could function forever without another donation if they wanted to.

[SamBam → nostromo]

Source? (Particularly for that last part.)

[kayxspre → SamBam]

Discussion about Wikipedia not actually being in financial jeopardy has been around for some time, and I remember reading about it at least once a year, during the donation banner season. Here are a few sources that discuss them.

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...

[2] https://www.dailydot.com/news/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraisi...

[3] https://archive.ph/CClQ6 (this is a Washington Post article. I'm using the Archived link as it's paywall-free)