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		max_ on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation How exactly does Wikipedia make its money? Is it exclusively through donors? If so, who are the top donors?

andersrs on May 22, 2023 [–]

The donations go to the parent org (Wikimedia) and the top donors are published in the financial reports. https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2021-annu...

It's mostly corporations but a lot of them are employee matching schemes.

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