Donate to Wikipedia one time and they haunt you for life. They’ll send you email after email and they are all rather ridiculous. On top of that be prepared to be hounded by phone as well. They are the equivalent of a roadside bum that keeps asking you for more, and each time you give he says, “Is that all you got?”. Frack whoever put this strategy in place, they’ve annoyed me to the point where I’d rather not give again.

They are a not for profit. They don’t make money off of user data or things like that. If donation doesn’t work with the first banner ad on the top they do increasingly extreme measures.

Wikipedia costs money to run And the majority of users don’t pay them anything. Wikipedia is just trying to avoid funding from sources that will push agendas into the information and etc. I blame the billions of people that have never paid anything more than Wikipedia for being beggars. There is a lot at stake.

@irene that doesn’t excuse hounding the people that do donate. I donate to other orgs, they don’t act like this and have much more at stake.

Depending on where you are, you could tell them to forget you (gdpr in the EU)

@Plasticnova
1. unsub
2. spam filter

@cephei so I’ve stopped the emails but they do still call. That’s not really the point though, it’s that they handle things that way at all. They are too aggressive

@irene I donate to Mozilla whenever I can, they never hound me and I think what they are doing is much more important than what Wikipedia is doing.

@Plasticnova yeah the ends do not justify the means here. I had to block them and even made a rule to block their banner using uBlock. I will donate when I can donate.

Although I'm sure there's a reason they do it this way... it probably works to get a surge in donations but eventually, people have to become numb to it right?

Thats not my exprience with them, they sended 1 or 2 emails a year later or so just with the question if I was willing to do it again

Similar experience with donating to political campaigns

@aBrokenDonut I’d be fine with that but that wasn’t my experience unfortunately

I can understand Mozilla, Linux, and other such donation driven tools surviving by receiving donations from major organisations in the form of dedicated support, and infrastructure.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, caters to a multitude of ignorant dumbasses like me, and I don't see myself contributing to them often.