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- d_rek0
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You're entirely missing the goddamn point of them asking for donations. They don't *want* fucking advertisments on their website and I, for one, do not want them either. Wikipedia is an amazing information resource and they want to keep it *free*.
Think of it as NPR. NPR is completely funded by donations. They do their radiothons a couple of times a year. Is it annoying to have NPR constantly interrupted and me being asked as a faithful listened to donate? Sure it is. But guess what. I'd rather fucking listen to the radiothon and donate to NPR than to listen to 10 minutes worth of shitty fucking radio advertisements just so I can listen to a few minutes worth of credible radio journalism.
It's the same principle for wikipedia. I don't want to have to navigate even a SINGLE advertisement, nor look at one, to get the information I want from that website. I'll gladly donate a few dollars every few months if that what it takes.