The "make a book" function has been literally broken (see: non-functional, with a "sorry about that" message) for years now. It used to be my favorite part of Wikipedia and now you can't do shit with it.

Have you seen Wikidata? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

Super awesome project methinks

Wikipedia is great but I similarly don't trust their cries for help anymore.

I won't donate till they communicate more honestly or Wikipedia - not wikimedia - needs help. It feels a lot like my local food bank begging for food but it turns out it's only their side venture composting food that's in need.

I'll donate to the annual email every year to keep them from adding ads or other forms of monetization.

Couldn't agree more. As a longtime donor, I feel uncomfortable not donating, but even more uncomfortable at closing a positive feedback loop on bad behavior.

New management is probably the only answer, as Wales clearly feels this is the best way to run this particular railroad. But what will we give up when that finally happens?

The whole situation sucks. It would be so much better if they just knocked off the shady shit.

Lately I've been redirecting donations that would have gone to Wikipedia to the Internet Archive, as I feel their work is at least equally important. But IA's reckless legal behavior is likely to result in my donations going straight to their defense counsel and/or plaintiffs, which is also not something I want to be part of.

It is the same with most charities.

Donate once as a one-off and they will Never. Leave. You. Alone. You'll continue getting letters and emails and sometimes even calls for years and years after your last donation.

It puts me off donating.

It's strange to see someone use "bipartisan" as a stand un for "fair" or "factual".

This is cotrect. Wikipedia informs poorly on subjects that have political or cultural significance, favoring heavily certain ideologies over neutral presentation of facts. It has been hijacked by activists that make it impossible to introduce any data that is outside of what is fashionable today. Wikipedia still rides its old reputation, but does not deserve it any more.

What are you trying to point out in the latest version? They are still pretty similar for several years apart.

Echoing the other comment, I'm unsure what's wrong with the opening paragraph in the second link.

I either found a way to unsubscribe from these, or I found a way to filter them. I now make a monthly donation, and I see the receipts from those transactions, and that's it. Just the way I like it.

Contrast with the Red Cross, whose annoyance-to-value ratio is far worse, IMHO, to the point that I refuse to donate. Yes they're providing literal life blood to people who may die without it, but have you SEEN their firehose of email?

I don't understand why this continues. It must work better than the alternatives, which is awful.