On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
People who donate to Wikimedia do so for a number of
reasons, chief
among them (I suspect) is to support keeping the lights on. That is,
the ongoing maintenance of the project in its current form. Most
donors are probably aware that the content is generated by volunteers
who will not receive donated funds. I'm not sure why you infer that
donors are, or should be, expecting to see some content improvement as
a result of their funding.
Because hosting the current content without any improvement could be
done for a tiny fraction of the WMF budget.