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> As Miller puts it, “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”


Contributors are a tiny % of users. I'm sure they've got some room for improvement on incentivizing new contributors. But Wikipedia is a gift to humanity and I hope we find new ways for them to be paid for their contributions to AI.


> Contributors are a tiny % of users most of them were wikipedia users in some form before they were contributors I imagine


1/3 of all donations are from the banner. I just went and looked at their annual report, which disclosed this.




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