nooooo

Here, take my upvote, and thank you!

– A french.

FWIW we’ve been seeing that amount be advertised for months. So either people talking about the fact that “the war having cost $40bn so far” were wrong months ago, or this number is under-evaluated for political reasons. Or both.

I’m confused. Are we talking V Bush or W Bush?

My personal take is: don’t silently cancel your donations in hope of change. You have much more influence power if you publicly threaten to cancel your donation, especially if you already are a recurring donor. Make yourself heard, on wiki. These protest pages are being read.

He’s still less orange than Donald though.

FWIW the development is done publicly, so you can check these claims https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/

Apps such as https://kiwix.org/ uses the data dumps regularly made available by the Wikimedia Foundation at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/.

The entire Wikipedia might be large, especially with images, but e.g English Wikipedia without images is a couple of 10s of GB.

The Wikimedia Foundation does just that, and still, their infrastructure is under stress because of AI scrapers.

Dumps or no dumps, these AI companies don’t care. They feel like they’re entitled to taking or stealing what they want.