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*See Wikipedia:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation

and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-11-06/Special report

and Asian News International - litigation against other organizations

Try to be nice and...

Let's make a pact, you and me...don't make assumptions about me and I won't make assumptions about you.

I try to think the best about others...so try to think the best about me, OK?!?

Assuming good reasons for our fellow Wikipedia editors' behavior should be the first thing we do BEFORE we reach for the keyboard...

Stating that "Our social policies are not a suicide pact" is not really a decent excuse for any Wikipedian's poor behavior.

And I really hate it when good editors feel they have to leave...I mean, I can understand retiring, but I miss so many people who aren't around any more for one reason or another.

Sometimes?...sometimes I adopt really crappy orphan articles and when others come along and change and/or improve my efforts,

I know I don't "own" the article and I don't edit war about it but it sometimes just breaks my heart.

True Confession: I am not a coder, I am not a computer-person. I do not understand Linux or Flow or liquid threads or almost any aspect of the technical side of Wikipedia...all I know Is that I love words. I love being part of this project. I love making knowledge accessible to people. So I taught myself by cutting & pasting the code from articles and from Wiki-gimmicks that I liked, from pestering people who knew their way around (especially User:Chzz). The high I got from mastering the language and learning how to make things look right?... PRICELESS.

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'''{{quote|None of the Wikipedia volunteer editors who add and improve content in articles receive any financial benefit. We all simply contribute our time because we care about building a great encyclopedia for you and innumerable others around the world to use.

'''If you cannot afford it, no one wants you to donate. Wikipedia is [https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundraising/ not at risk of shutting down], and the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts the Wikipedia platform and is asking for these donations, is [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id{{=}}29528791 richer than ever]. Hosting costs are around £2 million, while salaries for staff who do not contribute to making Wikipedia, but who are the ones asking for donations, are £67 million}}

'''[https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2020-2021_Audit_Report.pdf&page=5#filelinks WMF 2021 Audit Report]

'''

And then there's this latest...

'''[https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2021-2022_Audit_Report.pdf&page=5#filelinks WMF 2022 Audit Report...$250mil in the bank]

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