HACKER Q&A
📣 lifeisstillgood

Is Wikipedia's donation drive awesome or lacklustre?


So I have just seen a popup asking me to contribute to Wikipedia. Sure. While I was cracking open my rusty wallet, I read that "just" 2% of readers donate.

Now, from when I did charity response work - if you got 1% of say readership of an in-house magazine you were digging in a gold mine.

And 2% of Wikipedia's readership must be in the millions of respondents?

Does this mean wikipedia is just recognised by millions of people as valuable and worth supporting? Or is 2% low and they have horrible conversion rates?

I am looking for context I guess

(PS - go donate)

  👤 superchroma Accepted Answer ✓
I'm pretty sure you're not donating to Wikipedia, but actually the Wikimedia Foundation, which, I've heard, is very well funded and wastes a lot of money.
👤 kosasbest
Wikipedia has more than enough funds to keep the site running. I still donate though. When I donate, I signal that: `This is the world I want to live in`, or as they say: voting with your wallet. My donation is a drop in the ocean for them, but it's the gesture and motive that count.
👤 logicalmonster
Were you looking at some Wikipedia blog or newsletter thing or was that stat for the general site?