Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. “The wiki community is challenging the Wikimedia Foundation’s right or ability to run fundraising ads on English Wikipedia,” said Lane Rasberry, a long-term Wikipedian and data scientist at the University of Virginia. The self-governing wiki community has long insisted that the WMF consult them when it comes …
You recently launched an aggressive funding campaign. The easy answer to your question is no, this is not a fundraising campaign related to any shortfall or crisis, but I would say that since our mission is to provide free knowledge and information to every person on this planet, we will always need money to do that. I think it's easy …
Mr Brownbill said: “We decided no, this goes against the values of the charity, it goes against the values of most environmental charities. “We didn’t just slow down our endeavours into the crypto space, we released a statement, removed our crypto wallet and ended relationships with all potential and existing partners overnight.” In February, the WWF halted its sale of …
