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> Lots of people! The advancing of fashionable progressive causes is a far more popular thing to do today than hosting free online encyclopaedias. Wikipedia would arguably get more donations if they stuck a Black Lives Matter logo on their banner ads.

I don't think so. Just because the social activists are vocal does not mean that they are numerous.

In fact, looking at raw numbers, they're obviously in the minority: wikipedia donators outnumber actual BLM donators, so there are obviously more people interested in donating to wikipedia than to BLM.

If the wikimedia foundation were honest in their request for donations ("We plan to spend this on political activism"), they'd get fewer donators.



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