Wikipedia and Mozilla asking for financial support

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Good morning everybody,

Last year, i think it was, Wikipedia started asking for online financial donation to help keep Wikipedia ad-free. i usually donate $5.00.

Now, i see Mozilla Firefox doing the same thing - asking for donations.

I can, sort of, understand Wikipedia's asking for money, but Mozilla?

What do you all think of this asking for donations?
All of a sudden, they're asking for money.

Babe,
xoxo

[rodinuk]

All of a sudden, they're asking for money.

Since 2011 at least:

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Te...onations-Users

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Good morning rodinuk,

Thanks, for the link.

Now, what do you think about that?
Do you think they should be asking for donations?

Babe,
xoxo

[Instrumental]

Of course they should, they provide their products and services for free, receipt of donations helps make that feasible.

[Jericho]

Do you think they should be asking for donations?

Everyone else has their hand out, why not mozilla?

[AshlynCreamher]

Maybe they should start a charity!

[GroobySteven]

I give $5 a month to Wikipedia - and it's money well spent.

[flabbybody]

Google and Facebook use web habit history to customize ad streams for each individual user. It's why my FB page is filled with Target coupons and hemeroid treatments. I'm sure Wikipedia can monetize their database of search patterns in a similar manner and make billions selling ads.... can't be too far in the future.

[CrystalKing]

Google and Facebook use web habit history to customize ad streams for each individual user. It's why my FB page is filled with Target coupons and hemeroid treatments. I'm sure Wikipedia can monetize their database of search patterns in a similar manner and make billions selling ads.... can't be too far in the future.

The problem with that is it would create the risk that the articles on those companies would cease to be objective. It's one thing for Target to pay Wikipedia for users' search patterns, but it's another thing for Target to pay for its Wikipedia article to be "improved", such as by deleting the section about last year's data breach. I'm not saying Wikipedia necessarily would do that, but I do think it's a slippery slope once you monetize something.

I'd rather have Wikipedia ask for donations and be impartial than have it be ad-run and biased.

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Hi everybody,

I just received another email from wiki asking me to donate (again).
Their goal is to reach 20 million dollars?? That's what their "donation thermometer" reads - 20 million dollars for one year! Really?

They've already reached 10 million in donations according to that donation thermometer.

I don't know, folks. Isn't 10 million dollars already enough to run a website -
a website, as i understand it to be, that relies on smart people (the users) to write all the articles.

Why 20 million dollars per year? I can't understand that amount, at all, and why 10 million isn't enough.

Baffled.
Babe,
xoxo