[Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

Thu Sep 16 22:20:45 UTC 2010

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> People who donate to Wikimedia do so for a number of reasons, chief
> among them (I suspect) is to support keeping the lights on. That is,
> the ongoing maintenance of the project in its current form. Most
> donors are probably aware that the content is generated by volunteers
> who will not receive donated funds. I'm not sure why you infer that
> donors are, or should be, expecting to see some content improvement as
> a result of their funding.

Because hosting the current content without any improvement could be
done for a tiny fraction of the WMF budget.