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The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia

Por: Slate Tech December 02, 2022

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Welcome to , a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. You have likely encountered them before: the banner ads on English Wikipedia that encourage you to donate. Typically, they run for about a month at the end of the year. As one of the proposed December ads puts it, “If you donate just $2.75, or whatever you can this [whatever day of the week it is], Wikipedia could keep thriving for years. The price of a cup of... + full article



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