Jimmy Wales
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They're like, oh, well, I, you know, I did this thing and it was in the press and, you know, it's like, oh, okay, well, maybe we just overlooked it.
And that's, that's great.
But, you know, at a deeper level, one of the things that's really important is, you know, we aren't funded by governments.
We aren't funded by sort of major donors.
We're funded by
people giving their $20.
And that makes a big difference for our intellectual independence.
We're not worried like, oh, if we've got something negative about whatever, then we might lose our donation.
Throughout the years.
Please, from Jimmy Wills on Wikipedia.
We've all seen it.
Yeah, we've all seen it.
Is it going okay?
Is funding going okay?
It's okay, yeah.
We've been, you know, we're stable.
We're very cautious with money, so we always try to build our reserves and so on.
And then, you know, recently, I don't know, Elon tweeted defund Wikipedia.
I think we made about $5 million that day.