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Sorse ,
@Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Finally I don’t need to have an account just to have dark mode

venusaur ,
@venusaur@lemmy.world avatar

I thought this was gonna be about Wikipedia finally shutting down because nobody donates

unexposedhazard ,

They are actually getting too many donations, many times more than they need to run wikipedia. There was and is a big conflict about the unsustainable growth of donations to the foundation and its questionable use of those funds.

systemglitch ,

Huh, now that is a truly interesting bit of information.

weststadtgesicht ,

An interesting bit of information without any sources at all…

Reverendender ,

As is good and proper on Lemmy

aidan ,

Similar to Mozilla (but not from donations but instead of its millions paid to it by Google)

schnurrito ,

Remember, if you donate to the WMF, they will use that money to enforce “WMF global bans” against users trying to make useful contributions but who once looked at the wrong people funny.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

Who’s trying to making useful contributions but got banned, and what were they banned for?

schnurrito ,

One of the earliest global bans was against user “russavia” - research him and you’ll know what I’m talking about. After that I stopped following Wikimedia internals because it was 100% clear that they were now just completely arbitrarily banning people.

TheGrandNagus ,

Banned user Russavia edited two of the oligarch articles. He was a very active administrator on Wikimedia Commons, who specialized in promoting the Russian aviation industry, and in disrupting the English-language Wikipedia.

After finally being banned on the English Wikipedia, he created dozens of sockpuppets. Russavia, by almost all accounts, is not a citizen or resident of Russia, but his edits raise some concern and show some patterns.

In 2010, he boasted, on his userpage at Commons, that he had obtained permission from the official Kremlin.ru site for all photos there to be uploaded to Commons under Creative Commons licenses. He also made 148 edits at Russo-Georgian War, and 321 edits on the ridiculously detailed International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both of these articles were, at one time, strongly biased in favor of Russia.

Idk, when you’re using Wikipedia as a tool to push Russian propaganda, it seems fair that you’d be banned. That’s not what Wikipedia is for. He’s free to start russopedia.ru or whatever if he wants to do that.

0x0 ,

the ridiculously detailed

An encyclopedia calling an article ridiculously detailed is… interesting.

weststadtgesicht ,

Great. Making generalizing statements based on ONE case from over 10 years ago, which was - at best - debatable (see other response).

Phoenix3875 , (edited )

Wikimedia Foundation (the org behind the Wikipedia and similar projects) does get more donations than their operational cost, but that’s expected. The idea is that they’ll invest the extra fund^1 and some day the return alone will be able to sustain Wikipedia forever.

Although, some have criticized that the actual situation is not clearly conveyed in their asking for donation message. It gives people an impression that Wikipedia is going under if you don’t donate.

Others also criticized that the feature development is slow compared to the funding, or that not enough portion is allocated to the feature development. See how many years it takes to get dark mode! I don’t know how it’s decided or what’s their target, so I can’t really comment on this.

They publish their annual financial auditions^2 and you can have a read if you’re interested. There are some interesting things. For example, in 2022-2023, processing donations actually costs twice as much as internet hosting, which one would expect to be the major expense.

Etterra ,

LOL took 'em long enough.

Reverendender ,

Praise Cthulhu!

Boxscape ,
@Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

https://y.yarn.co/3ad73c8a-40c9-4129-9a2f-5c08845d73c6_text.gif

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Very happy to see it come to wikipedia!!

But I think it also needs some polish. The contrast is too high and the blue on black of the hyperlinks is too garish for sure.

chemical_cutthroat ,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

If you are on desktop and you aren’t sure how it works, try out this Wiki page and in the top right corner you can see an “eyeglasses” looking icon. Click that and set it to Automatic or Dark.

KingJalopy ,

These are dark times

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

Indeed.

Lost_My_Mind ,

No, thats the job hunting website. Wikipedia is the one anyone can edit historical facts.

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

https://64.media.tumblr.com/03a862d2976589c814e4e811aca37979/cce9655e350d8055-d0/s540x810/8a9ea21ada534fb10215dc3409d11d91e61bbfe6.gif

(Which is apparently a workspace AI company)

Lost_My_Mind ,

Do not start a headline with “Darkness reigns over Wikipedia”!!!

Someplaceunknown ,
@Someplaceunknown@fedia.io avatar

At last, I won’t get blinded whenever I open Wikipedia

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