Ghost of V

wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« on: December 04, 2014, 08:51:50 AM »
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give#legacy

If you cannot pay wikipedia a donation with a credit card they will gladly take it off your dead relatives' corpse.

Under "Ways to Give" there is an option called "Legacy Gift" which lets one write Wikipedia into their own will to be paid for after death. They are essentially grasping at straws here with the many methods used to steal your money.

"Your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation ensures that Wikipedia is here for the next generation. A Legacy Gift is a charitable donation of any amount, designated through your will or living trust. You can learn more about Legacy Gifts or email benefactors@wikimedia.org"

Wikipedia should just run ads. But their "freedom" is more important, so they'll just beg for your money instead. They're like internet hobos with a taste for blood. They have some adims, some servers, and the rest of the money goes into "research projects". The site is basically maintained for free by random people on the internet. They're monopolizing encyclopedias with dead people money, and it's an outrage.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2014, 10:05:35 AM »
Well, I certainly won't need my money after I'm dead, and they would, so...
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 03:13:28 PM »
Well, I certainly won't need my money after I'm dead, and they would, so...

So give your money to Wikipedia instead of your family, good idea Snupes.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2014, 03:13:45 PM »
Vauxhall thought this was a good enough troll gag to start a whole new topic.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 03:36:09 PM »
You have not come up with a good troll gag in quite a while, so someone needed to do it. 

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 03:51:00 PM »
You have not come up with a good troll gag in quite a while, so someone needed to do it.

It's because my sig reminds everyone not to fall for my shit now.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2014, 04:14:34 PM »
Vauxhall thought this was a good enough troll gag to start a whole new topic.


A non-profit using dead people money to fund their own expansion is not a troll gag. This is really happening. Only a sliver of the money goes to maintaining their servers and paying their employees. The rest funds research projects, and apparently sending their employees to pop concerts to take pictures is considered a research project. This information is suspiciously hard to find online as well. There's something fishy going on here.

It's because my sig reminds everyone not to fall for my shit now.

So that's why you've been ruining all my fun lately.
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2014, 04:29:11 PM »
Well, I certainly won't need my money after I'm dead, and they would, so...

So give your money to Wikipedia instead of your family, good idea Snupes.
Well, I'm not having kids, and most of my close family will probably be dead by the time I die (aside from my couple of siblings, who are doing fairly well for themselves all things considered)
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2014, 04:31:32 PM »
Well, I'm not having kids, and most of my close family will probably be dead by the time I die (aside from my couple of siblings, who are doing fairly well for themselves all things considered)

Since you seem so supportive of Wikipedia, they also have an option where they deduct a percentage from your paycheck every week/2 weeks depending on how you get paid. Have you ever considered actually giving money to Wikipedia instead of just talking about it? They need your help, Snupes.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give#payroll
« Last Edit: December 04, 2014, 04:33:18 PM by Vauxhall »

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2014, 05:02:02 PM »
Personal appeal from Jimmy Wales

"Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia."






Is this not a form of advertising?  ::)

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2014, 06:47:59 PM »
Well, I'm not having kids, and most of my close family will probably be dead by the time I die (aside from my couple of siblings, who are doing fairly well for themselves all things considered)

Since you seem so supportive of Wikipedia, they also have an option where they deduct a percentage from your paycheck every week/2 weeks depending on how you get paid. Have you ever considered actually giving money to Wikipedia instead of just talking about it? They need your help, Snupes.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give#payroll
Uhh, what on earth makes you think I don't donate to Wikipedia?
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2014, 06:50:30 PM »
I will have kids with you, Snupes.  Just kidding.  lolol

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2014, 07:02:57 PM »
Well, I'm not having kids, and most of my close family will probably be dead by the time I die (aside from my couple of siblings, who are doing fairly well for themselves all things considered)

Since you seem so supportive of Wikipedia, they also have an option where they deduct a percentage from your paycheck every week/2 weeks depending on how you get paid. Have you ever considered actually giving money to Wikipedia instead of just talking about it? They need your help, Snupes.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give#payroll
Uhh, what on earth makes you think I don't donate to Wikipedia?

Do you donate to Wikipedia?

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2014, 07:14:20 PM »
Personal appeal from Jimmy Wales

"Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia."






Is this not a form of advertising?  ::)
No, that's begging. Its like advertising only instead of some faceless corporation that wants to stuff its shit down your throat paying for the service, you are asked to pay. Begging is far worse.

1) You have to stump up.
2) You aren't made to feel bad for ignoring an advert.

I don't know how Jimmy Wales thinks this is better. But he's a millionaire beggar. I work for a living and I haven't got as much money so shows what I know.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2014, 08:47:08 PM »
Wikipedia is non-profit. How else are they going to stay online so you can look up information for your crappy Internet debates?

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2014, 08:49:17 PM »
Most, if not all, non profits ask for donations. I don't see the problem.
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2014, 08:51:36 PM »
This is an outage.
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2014, 08:56:01 PM »
Most, if not all, non profits ask for donations. I don't see the problem.

The problem is that the entire site is maintained by unpaid volunteers. The donations don't benefit the people actually contributing to the site besides keeping the servers running. Jimmy still manages to become a millionaire by begging, yet the only contributing he's done has been editing his own Wikipedia page.

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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2014, 09:17:04 PM »
I'd do a different model entirely.

I'd say to companies, you can have exclusive control of your own page for 0.1 cents per page view.

that way they can edit it to make themselves look great (they do anyway, big companies bombard the wiki page for positive spin and challenge everything requesting citations and putting anything they don't like into drawn out debates).

Just charge them to maintain their own pages. No bugger really takes something like the IBM page seriously anyway. Then the rest of the service stays as is and is paid for.
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Re: wikipedia will take money from your dead relatives
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2014, 09:24:03 PM »
Yes let's just turn Wikipedia into an advertising platform. Because we need more of those.