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You assume wrongly that donations to the wikimedia foundation goes to wikipedia. Only a small percentage. But if you want to support "queer studies" dissertations, go ahead! And there is nothing wrong with that work, but hiding behind a donation button on Wikipedia is fraudulent

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Glad to know donations are funding important research (although this info by you deserves a [citation needed]).

a heavily cited thread can be read here: https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633

A Twitter thread from a random person with an anime avatar. Great.

who cares about the medium? The posts are heavily sourced, often from wiki''s public records.

What's wrong with queer studies?

Nothing as long as the funding is transparent. What Wikipedia is doing is borderline fraudulent as most people would assume your donation is largely used for keeping Wikipedia running.

Imo whats wrong is that Wikimedia aggressively promotes the idea that wikipedia needs money and donations will go to wikipdeia when they're actually being used for something else. If the banner on wikipedia said "donate to our queer studies fund" I certainly wouldn't be complaining.

Okay, where exactly are you getting this info from?

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