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numb.comfortab.ly
Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb.
Musk: Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … Community notes: The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable non-profit, providing free access to Wikipedia. While a text & English-only copy of Wikipedia is about 51GB, adding all media + supported languages brings it to 428TB. In 2022 Wikimedia had $154M in revenue with $145M in expenses.
May 12, 2024 at 2:59 AM
phirephoenix.com
Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move.
medium.com/@jakeorlowit...
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
medium.com
May 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
molly.wiki
Neither is true. The first isn’t even really possible without community buy-in, and so far the English Wikipedia community has been extremely resistant to AI or AI-assisted editing. As for the latter, all Wikimedia content has always been free, and was already widely used for AI training.
January 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
brparalerdo.bsky.social
Em 2013 é contratado pela Fundação Wikimedia para atuar no programa "Catalisador" no Brasil, onde atua até 2014.

Em 2014 o programa Catalisador foi encerrado, e o Rodrigo Padula criou um grupo para receber dinheiro da Fundação Wikimedia. 14/34

meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
Grants:APG/Simple/Applications/Wikimedia Community Brazilian Group of Education and Research/2016/Job Description - Meta
meta.m.wikimedia.org
December 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM
caseynewton.bsky.social
Post now corrected with a working link to the Wikipedia blog: diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/h...
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
diff.wikimedia.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
jynus.com
The financials are audited by an external firm-(the audit: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fo... ). The community keeps us accountable. A Board of Trustees oversees us: wikimediafoundation.org/role/board/ Organizations such as Charity Navigator evaluate us: www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703
Charity Navigator - Rating for Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation has earned a 4/4 Star rating on Charity Navigator. This Educational Organization is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
www.charitynavigator.org
October 23, 2023 at 9:29 AM
hongkongfp.com
1/ Hong Kong's High Court handed a landmark victory to the LGBTQ community on Wednesday, ruling that laws barring transgender people from using public toilets according to their gender identity are unconstitutional.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
July 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
wikimediafoundation.org
Wikimedia Brasil is now an official Wikimedia chapter, joining 37 others worldwide! 🎉

What began with six volunteers is now a thriving community shaping open knowledge. With chapter status, they will expand partnerships, education, and equity efforts.

Parabéns, Wikimedia Brasil! 🇧🇷💙 ➡️ w.wiki/D4RL
Christ the Redeemer statue over the clouds. Text says: Congratulations to the new Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia Brasil!
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
carnage4life.bsky.social
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.

Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.

A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
diff.wikimedia.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
wmlgbt.org
Wikimedia LGBT+ stands in solidarity with Berlin's LGBTQ+ community
A single candle with the Wikimedia LGBT+ logo sits in the foreground, indistinct lights are bokeh'd in the background. A caption reads "WMLGBT+ stands in solidarity with Berlin LGBT+ community"
July 26, 2026 at 11:19 AM
heise.de
Beschäftigte der Wikimedia-Stiftung gründen derzeit eine Gewerkschaft. Nach Entlassungen bieten nun ehrenamtliche Autoren an, sich an Streiks zu beteiligen. #Wikimedia
Gewerkschaftsgründung bei Wikimedia: Community-Protest nach Entlassungen
Beschäftigte der Wikimedia-Stiftung gründen derzeit eine Gewerkschaft. Nach Entlassungen bieten nun ehrenamtliche Autoren an, sich an Streiks zu beteiligen.
www.heise.de
May 28, 2026 at 9:03 AM
sockynoob.bsky.social
Please listen to the community on this one and take a good look at what happened to Wikimedia when they tried this.
June 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
molly.wiki
There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend as much as it does, and the community has these conversations regularly. Most of the conversations I’ve seen from Musk and allies, however, are not such conversations.
There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend $150–$200 million each year. I suspect few have had as detailed conversations about whether there is a need for such spending and fundraising, or about the tone of fundraising emails and banners, or the ultimate purposes of the spending as have Wikimedia’s very own volunteer editing community, which has a rather peculiar and at times adversarial relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation.495051 But “why does Wikipedia need more than the cost to serve a 50GB file” is not one such reasonable conversation. Nor are some of the other talking points that tend to come up in these kinds of conversations (“why does the Wikimedia Foundation pay employees six-figure salaries when they don’t even pay their editors??”k and “why do they need more money when they already have over $270 million??”52l are another two I see a lot). I personally have shared some of the concerns about the magnitude of spending by the Wikimedia Foundation in the past, and have disagreed with some of its allocations — but I’ll also note that I happily contributed money to the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this year, as I have in the past. k. Editing Wikipedia for pay is an enormously fraught topic, and the damaging incentives introduced by offering payment for edits at an organizational level would likely be ruinous. l. The Wikimedia Foundation tries to keep assets amounting to 12–18 months of expenses in reserve, as is quite reasonable.
January 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
antiqueight.bsky.social
@wikimediaireland.bsky.social (in the form of me and Baby Globe) will be at @octocon.bsky.social this weekend in Cork discussing and working on Representation in Wikipedia
Octo, the octocon mascot octopus holding a phone and a tablet, using a laptop with a large screen behind. Wikimedia Community Ireland Einin Logo which is a puffin over a wikimedia world logo with Pobal Éireann |Wikimedia Community Ireland text.
September 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
wikimediafoundation.org
Wikipedia works as a collaborative system. Our community of volunteer editors write, cite reliable sources, fact check every single article, and discuss how to make the free encyclopedia better for everyone.

Watch this video from Wikimédia France to learn more about how Wikipedia works ⬇️
Comment fonctionne Wikipédia ? Avec Rémy Gerbet
YouTube video by Wikimédia France
www.youtube.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
theregister.com
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
www.theregister.com
May 30, 2026 at 11:17 AM
numb.comfortab.ly
Same energy. Same stupid fucking energy.
"@DOGE:" The United States gives more in aid to foreign countries than the next 9 countries combined. Where exactly is that money going and how is it being spent? from:me musk wikimedia Any language Top Latest ‪Comfortably Numb‬ ‪@numb.comfortab.ly‬ · 6mo 🇺🇸 Human Ranger Bluesky Elder Kiki Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb. Musk: Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … Community notes: The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable non-profit, providing free access to Wikipedia. While a text & English-only copy of Wikipedia is about 51GB, adding all media + supported languages brings it to 428TB. In 2022 Wikimedia had $154M in revenue with $145M in expenses. ALT Home Search 2 Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Following Discover Newskies Quiet Posters My Bangers Ratio Ratio Alltimers 📰 Trending News Trending More feeds Feedback · Privacy · Terms · Help Musk: Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … Community notes: The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable non-profit, providing free access to Wikipedia. While a text & English-only copy of Wikipedia is about 51GB, adding all media + supported languages brings it to 428TB. In 2022 Wikimedia had $154M in revenue with $145M in expenses.
December 7, 2024 at 7:36 PM
brparalerdo.bsky.social
Em 2016 passou a pedir remuneração para sua coordenação diretamente 2 mil dólares mensais para 20 horas de trabalho por semana . Valores continuados em 2017 no primeiro e segundo semestres 15/34

meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...
Grants:PEG/Wikimedia Community Brazilian Group of Education and Research/Wiki Loves Monuments Brasil 2015 - Meta
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December 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM
emily.space
Just 13% of their budget is spent on admin and governance - most Wikimedia Foundation Money is spent on things that directly support the websites, from community grants to legal support.

The stat that it could run for 100 years is BS - it takes way more than hosting costs to run Wikipedia.
Where Your Money Goes – Wikimedia Foundation
Donations to the Wikimedia Foundation help sustain free knowledge on Wikipedia and our ecosystem of Wikimedia projects. Your contributions ensure these resources remain accessible and valuable for mil...
wikimediafoundation.org
December 13, 2023 at 11:01 AM
wikipedia.org
February Photo dump. Shout out Wikimedia Commons community 🫶 (1/5)
Walls lined with stacked human skulls and bones in the Paris Catacombs, lit with a warm glow. Text reads: Catacumbas, París, Francia, 2022-11-01, DD 111-113 HDR.jpg. Catacombs of Paris, France
February 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM
wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is part of something bigger.

It is one of many projects supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to help promote free knowledge. These projects are maintained by a global community of volunteers known as Wikimedians.

Every year, we celebrate them ➡️ w.wiki/ExNz
We are honoring exceptional contributors – Wikimedian of the Year 2025.
August 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
shannonmattern.bsky.social
"We are 👀 a significant ⬆️ in request volume, w/ most of this traffic... driven by scraping bots collecting training data for LLMs. [This] happened largely w/o sufficient attribution, which is key to drive new users to participate[, +] is causing a significant load on the underlying infrastructure"
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
diff.wikimedia.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
wikimediafoundation.org
Looking into the future with open minds and open hearts.

The Wikimedia movement is a global community of real humans who collaborate to build free knowledge for all. Thank you to everyone who brought curiosity, empathy, and dedication to Wikimania 2026!
July 25, 2026 at 7:25 PM
nora.zone
i assume the young man was nice. the wikimedia commons page said he was 18 and thats it. but i think it is nice to provide the creative commons community with educational dick and balls photos in any case
September 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
wikimediafoundation.org
Every day, a user-submitted Picture of the Day is chosen by contributors from the worldwide Wikimedia Commons community.

Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository that hosts millions of images, videos, and sounds, all shared openly for anyone to use.
A nebula with a bright blue core surrounded by dark and orange-hued gas clouds, set against a background of numerous stars. Text says: Today's Picture of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: The Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281).
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM