Comment by 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.

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piker

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.
- refulgentis 7 months ago
  
  I'm surprised you're reiterating surprise: you were off by two orders of magnitude, and the initial surprise only had purpose as a rhetorical device, it wasn't based on anything (why is > 10 surprising? 70M people in UK...)
  
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- flir 7 months ago
  
  Gotta factor in fire-and-forget donations vs repeat donations. So halve that number?
- dr_dshiv 7 months ago
  
  I assumed Britain would not be Europe but “other”
  
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philipwhiuk 7 months ago

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/ch...