11-02-2014, 11:36 AM
It peeves me to no end. Every year, they make the same plea. Why not just fvcking advertise, get off your fucklng high horse. Sure, wiki is a hell of a valuable resource. But so fu<king what - monitize, dumb fucks!
Maybe instead of begging, then they can donate the excesses to needy starvers - there is a lot of it going around.
Quote:DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS: Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. We survive on donations averaging about $15. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. Yep, that’s about the price of buying a programmer a coffee.I suffer banner blindness, go ahead and stuff porn in the sidebars, I do not care
We’re a small non-profit with costs of a top 5 website: servers, staff
and programs. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a
public park where we can all go to think and learn. If Wikipedia is
useful to you, take one minute to make a tax-deductible donation to keep
it online and ad-free another year. Thank you.

Maybe instead of begging, then they can donate the excesses to needy starvers - there is a lot of it going around.