For Wikipedia to remain free and independent, I hope any large donations would go towards the endowment as opposed to the foundation’s budgethttps://twitter.com/wireduk/status/1008802784886566912 …
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Being good at fundraising from a large and diverse set of donors is the only way to guarantee Wikipedia’s continuity. Building that organizational muscle is tiring, but necessary https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2016-2017_Fundraising_Report …pic.twitter.com/TrzyYF0zcG
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The Wikimedia Endowment is a perfect place to contribute large sums of money, as that long-term fund hopefully prevents Wikipedia from relying too much on any single donor https://wikimediaendowment.org/ pic.twitter.com/Dn2pw3YWAJ
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Mozilla is a scary example: 94% of their revenue comes from a handful of search companies, with likely 90% of it coming straight from Google. They will go under once their sugar daddy disappearshttps://www.computerworld.com/article/3240008/web-browsers/mozillas-record-2016-revenue-funded-its-firefox-quantum-browser.html …
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Replying to @thijsniks @koenrh
The article says the big pay was from a fixed-per-year deal Yahoo! initiated in 2014, which ended late last year. Rumor is the Google deal is traffic-based, so very likely a lot smaller per annum, and variable.
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I truly hope a traffic-base deal is an incentive to diversify Mozilla’s funding sources and increases its likelihood for survival, because “revenue derived from royalties has never dipped below 91%” before
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