This is so incredibly gross. I’d rather they just pull out of India completely if this was the alternative. What are all those funds we are donating to the Wikipedia war chest for?<p><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html" rel="nofollow">https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...</a><p>>While Wikipedia volunteers are primarily focused on producing content for the encyclopedia, the WMF is a major fundraising organization, bringing in $165 million from 13 million donations during the 2021–22 fiscal year<p>>Jim Heaphy, a 70-year-old Wikipedia editor and administrator who lives in Grass Valley, California, told me that he opposed any messaging that suggested the WMF was running out of money. “Wikipedia is under threat. But it is not under threat financially,” Heaphy said in an email. “The Wikimedia Foundation is rolling in cash.” Heaphy told me he sees the main threats to Wikipedia as coming from authoritarian regimes, ideologues, spammers, and vandals.