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I'm surprised they haven't deployed a big banner à la Jimmy Wales begging for donations to UK users re this law yet


I think most Wikimedia users would consider it inapropriate to mix fundraising and public policy initiatives.


They previously did a 24 hour blackout to protest SOPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA...


Literally more then a decade ago. Also they didn't mix it together with fundraiser.


Nobody suggested mixing it with a fundraiser. Just that the protest should use the same annoying banner elements that the fundraisers do.


Sorry, you're right, i misread the original post i was responding to.


I believe public policy initiatives are already Wikimedia's second-biggest expenses, after salaries, so I don't see how that would be much more different than usual fundraising except for making it more transparent.


In 2023 (most recent year i could find a tax statement for) Wikimedia foundation had a budget of $178,588,294. They spent $92,616 of it on lobbying. That is 0.05% of their budget. So i think its pretty clear its not their second biggest expense.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/d9/Wikim...




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