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-Tech/Mozilla-Starts-Asking-Donations-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

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

So if they don't get their 20 million dollar target, they will keep the 10 million dollars that was donated and run ads anyway and make more money from that as well?

Just wondering, would you all want your donations back if they "have" to run ads?

[dreamon]

Wikipedia is one of the top 10 most accessed websites in the world. The upkeep for servers and techs for that must be pretty high.

[Dahlia Babe Ailhad]

Hi dreamon,

Thanks for the comment (and thank you everyone else, too, for your comments).

20 million dollars US worth, you mean?
They are a basically a text site.
How much bandwidth is required to display text.

I am not a webmaster or anything like that, and i once had a website for my you know, "business". Maybe i am totally clued out to such things, but video and sound uses much more bandwidth than text does, no?

I dunno, its like a major get-rich quick scheme to silly little me. I probably have no idea about what i am discussing here. It just seems to me that they want to make money now that the site is really a mainstay and everyone uses it.


(????)
xoxo