Comment by OtherShrezzing

7 months ago

Wikipedia gets a lot of donations from the uk. I’m not sure how many Brits would continue putting £10-100/mo into a charity that explicitly doesn't operate in their borders.

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OtherShrezzing

tokai 7 months ago

Wouldn't make a dent in their budget. They are not poor by any means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

giancarlostoro 7 months ago
The annual cost is about 150 million, and they have a war chest of half a billion? If I remember correctly. Yeah, I don't think anything will do a dent, unless like everyone decides to never donate again.
- HDThoreaun 7 months ago
  
  Wikimedia's expenses and wikipedia expenses are not the same. wikipedia does not spend anywhere near $150 million a year.

piker 7 months ago

Any stats on this? I'd be surprised if the number of Brits putting £10-100/mo into Wikipedia greatly exceeds 10.

tetris11 7 months ago
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2023-24_Report
Best I can find
$ 132,466.01 Africa $ 4,902,373.13 Asia $ 49,423,340.29 Europe $106,546,895.77 N.America $ 2,509,299.46 Other $ 6,082,217.76 Oceania $ 944,844.22 S.America
- piker 7 months ago
  
  It looks from another chart like 21% of revenue is recurring, so $10 million annually for Europe.
  Convert that to GBP and you get about £7.5 million.
  Figure that the UK accounts for about 15% of the European economy and assume it contributes to Wikipedia at about an equal share.
  That's about £1.125 million in estimated annual recurring contributions from the UK.
  You said 10-100/mo, so let's assume £55/mo or £660/year as the mean.
  That would be about 1,700 Brits, a surprising number.
  
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- philipwhiuk 7 months ago
  
  https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/ch...