<![CDATA[Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.]]>Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4c92fda7-e34e-4c8d-ac61-ebbf5c392599/cancelling-my-monthly-wikipedia-donation-i-guess.RSS for NodeSun, 31 May 2026 18:03:52 GMTWed, 27 May 2026 12:59:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 18:17:58 GMT]]>@mhoye sent the same email cancelling my monthly donation yesterday. Truly disappointing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/e_nomem/statuses/116647911677702739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/e_nomem/statuses/116647911677702739Wed, 27 May 2026 18:17:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 17:59:14 GMT]]>@netopwibby @mhoye How to break that cycle? Is it always money from the too rich&powerful sabotaging the good thing from some angle?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.edu.nl/users/steltenpower/statuses/116647837980430698https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.edu.nl/users/steltenpower/statuses/116647837980430698Wed, 27 May 2026 17:59:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 17:47:07 GMT]]>@mhoye @netopwibby Same. It's discouraging, really.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/mpotter/statuses/116647790370135589https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/mpotter/statuses/116647790370135589Wed, 27 May 2026 17:47:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 16:02:24 GMT]]>@mhoye Yeah man, it’s tough. I've donated a few times over the years. It seems virtually impossible for anything that started with great intentions to stay that way. Hella demoralizing.

Great thing is that eventually something better comes along? But like, how long will the good vibes last there? The cycle continues.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/netopwibby/statuses/116647378599502849https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/netopwibby/statuses/116647378599502849Wed, 27 May 2026 16:02:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:59:37 GMT]]>@netopwibby I've been donating since I got to a point in life that I could afford to. I've even kept it up while I was unemployed. I hate this, but I don't have any other meaningful way to send even this tiny, tiny message.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647367642946772https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647367642946772Wed, 27 May 2026 15:59:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:57:34 GMT]]>@mhoye Oh wow!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/netopwibby/statuses/116647359552754261https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/netopwibby/statuses/116647359552754261Wed, 27 May 2026 15:57:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:53:13 GMT]]>I don't see where union-busting fits in here so I guess that's the end of that. https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/values

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647342485243475https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647342485243475Wed, 27 May 2026 15:53:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:29:09 GMT]]>@tivasyk Yeah.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647247824505622https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647247824505622Wed, 27 May 2026 15:29:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:28:57 GMT]]>@mhoye@cosocial.ca oh fsck.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://holos.social/users/tivasyk/statuses/1779895737945-z25qpihttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://holos.social/users/tivasyk/statuses/1779895737945-z25qpiWed, 27 May 2026 15:28:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:24:11 GMT]]>@tivasyk It's about this: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647228293933997https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116647228293933997Wed, 27 May 2026 15:24:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 15:21:44 GMT]]>@mhoye@cosocial.ca a link, please? (if this post is a reaction / reply to smth, i don't see the history up past it for some reason).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://holos.social/users/tivasyk/statuses/1779895304581-2xhwjhhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://holos.social/users/tivasyk/statuses/1779895304581-2xhwjhWed, 27 May 2026 15:21:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:34 GMT]]>@bd808 If the situation changes I'll be back, but it's all I have. I'm sorry.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646903441995301https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646903441995301Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:06 GMT]]>@bd808 well, clearly I wasn't wrong about the kind of people making the decisions anyway

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116646897676759529https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116646897676759529Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:39:36 GMT]]>@aburka We announced getting paid a little bit for data that the clankers and FAANG mega corps have been taking for free for decades. I really wish the comms on that had not been so easily twisted by folks looking to start shit online.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bd808/statuses/116646817078332612https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bd808/statuses/116646817078332612Wed, 27 May 2026 13:39:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:36:49 GMT]]>@mhoye Getting all of us fired for lack of funding probably won’t help a lot, but I get that this is about the only lever folks have. 😕

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bd808/statuses/116646806115573210https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bd808/statuses/116646806115573210Wed, 27 May 2026 13:36:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:30:46 GMT]]>@mhoye same 😞

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/abetterjulie/statuses/116646782351918469https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wandering.shop/users/abetterjulie/statuses/116646782351918469Wed, 27 May 2026 13:30:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:15:06 GMT]]>@mos_8502 @mhoye True.

I'm wary of letting Americans run any kind of charity, because it appears it's only a matter of time til their "leaders" turn it into some kind of grift ... but forking Wikipedia is a huge undertaking.

I could imagine that —in the current political climate— the short-term damage would be huge, and exactly what fashists would wish for.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116646720761448941https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/soc/statuses/116646720761448941Wed, 27 May 2026 13:15:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:14:53 GMT]]>@mhoye unfortunately already canceled mine back when they announced some kind of AI partnership bullshit in January

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116646719883882528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/aburka/statuses/116646719883882528Wed, 27 May 2026 13:14:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:10:09 GMT]]>@mhoye One wonders where the Foundation's Board stands in all this, since they're the ones with the power to fire the CEO, but also presumably the ones that approved hiring them in the first place.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ancoghlan/statuses/116646701295332974https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ancoghlan/statuses/116646701295332974Wed, 27 May 2026 13:10:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:09:00 GMT]]>@mhoye Communities fracture all the time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://studio8502.ca/users/mos_8502/statuses/116646696757849258https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://studio8502.ca/users/mos_8502/statuses/116646696757849258Wed, 27 May 2026 13:09:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:08:16 GMT]]>@mos_8502 Can't be done. You can download the whole thing right now if you want, code and data - they have regular whole-site content dumps, it's just a few clicks - but the community and the infrastructure are what makes it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646693887501868https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646693887501868Wed, 27 May 2026 13:08:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:07:03 GMT]]>@mhoye Wonder what it’d cost to fork it effectively.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://studio8502.ca/users/mos_8502/statuses/116646689070622362https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://studio8502.ca/users/mos_8502/statuses/116646689070622362Wed, 27 May 2026 13:07:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cancelling my monthly Wikipedia donation I guess. on Wed, 27 May 2026 13:04:34 GMT]]>I actually hate this but that’s the only tool I have in hand.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646679316604183https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116646679316604183Wed, 27 May 2026 13:04:34 GMT