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It's losing active editors for a reason. For an internet medium that is outwardly open it is in reality a surprisingly closed-minded and insular organization. Let's say you want to add a link to a very informative site on a subject. More often than not it will be removed based on some arcane technicality that might as well be gobbledygook by a minder who usually has a history of doing nothing but minding other people's work. Why? Information dissemination one might conclude is its reason for being if you listen to its spiel. The response might be some variation of quality considerations. But if you realize who it is actually in competition with one likely understands the truer motivation.

What Wikipedia gives to readers it takes from the web community and it does not give back to that web community. It could easily allow links to other web sites but it is very parsimonious with them because it might affect it's search engine rank. What one needs to understand about Wikipedia is that first and foremost Wikipedia is not an information project, it is a search engine optimization project. Various reasons and excuses are given why articles shouldn't be too long, why they should be formatted a certain way, why certain links cannot be repeated, why various sources cannot be used, why spoiler text is not allowed but on closer inspection one realizes they are all tailored to promote search engine optimization even if it is at the expense of the reader experience.

It's as "highly misleading" to suggest that just by putting significant revenues into operating reserves that Wikimedia is exculpated and the earlier criticism is misdirection and invalid. It is relevant for any potential donors to know donations are likely geared for *growth* and not merely *maintenance*. Someone donating in response to a call for help may want to know that it is help for opening offices in London and India and not help for keeping the services simply up and running. The operating reserve while sensible from a business standpoint also allows for creative discretion in its allocation. Ultimately you will have to trust the people. Judging from how the organization says one thing in its help files inviting people to participate and how in practice the spirit of stated principles are often violated and abused, scrutiny and skepticism of the people behind the site is more than justified.

The federal Form 990 that the Wikimedia Foundation is required to file shows that only 46% of the incoming revenues are actually spent on the program services that support the non-profit's charitable mission. Most reputable charities aim for a percentage north of 80%. This is disgraceful, but the gullible donors just keep donating.

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“Sassenach” (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Sassenach is a word used chiefly by the Scots to designate an Englishman. It derives from the Scottish Gaelic Sasunnach meaning, originally, “Saxon”, from the Latin “Saxones”; it was also formerly applied by Highlanders to (non-Gaelic-speaking) Lowlanders[1]. As employed by Scots or Scottish English-speakers today it is usually used in jest, but often as a term of abuse. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) gives 1771 as the date of the earliest written use of the word in English. “Troll (Internet)” (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) “Do not feed the trolls” and its abbreviation DNFTT redirect here. For the Wikimedia essay, see “What is a troll?”. In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory or abusive messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2] Etymology “Trolling for blue fish” lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1866. The contemporary use of the term is alleged to have first appeared on the internet in the late 1980s,[3] but the earliest known example is from 1991.[4] It is thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the fishing technique of slowly dragging bait through water, known as trolling.

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