Not Having Any WikiGuilt: Donating To WikPedia Is Funding Crazy-Left Organizations

By John Derbyshire

10/15/2022

In my July Diary I confessed to having suffered from Wikiguilt. Quote from self:

I use Wikipedia all the time while knowing how biased towards regime ideology much of it is … Wikipedia is evil but … handy. Hence my wikiguilt.

Well, now I have assuaged my wikiguilt. In response to a begging window that came up a few days ago, I am now paying $3.10 a month to the Wikimedia Foundation, supplementing whatever the DNC and Big Tech pay them for promoting their agendas.

Call me over-scrupulous; but if I’m using the thing, getting benefit from it, I ought to pay for it, if only at the minimum rate (which that monthly $3.10 is). Right?

Once again, that was me, speaking in July.

Then this week I saw this very informative tweet from someone using the handle “echetus.”

Along with its accompanying tweets, it’s too long to quote in entirety, but it spills the beans on Wikimedia.

For examples:

• Wikimedia’s spending has soared from $10 million in 2010 to $112 million by 2020.
• Year 2021 website hosting cost $2.4 million, which is less than it cost in 2012.
• Less than half of what they spend goes on directly supporting the website.
• The rest of their spending goes to crazy-left organizations.
• Actual quote — this one’s a doozy. Quote: “Back in 2017, a Wikipedian called Guy Macon wrote a strident article entitled ’Wikipedia has a Cancer.’ He predicted Wikimedia’s runaway spending would bankrupt Wikipedia, resulting in its takeover by Facebook or Google. Since then, Wikimedia’s budget has almost doubled.”

And so on. After I’d read these tweets I promptly canceled my $3.10 monthly subscription to Wikimedia.

Do please check out those tweets. The tweeter once again has the handle “echetus”. It’s the name of a rather evil character in Greek mythology. I know that because I looked it up… on Wikipedia.

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