Wikipedia is a good cause, but I feel like archive.org is in dire need of fundings.
Then English wikipedia is only about 100GB (excluding videos), archive.org is in the TERABYTES with some report of it being in PETABYTES. They need funding to keep up the maintenance of their storage and backups, and for the bandwith for people to access it. They’ve been attacked by hackers a few months ago so they’ll need better security and that might cost money. They are under constant lawsuits over alleged copyright issues, lawsuits cost a lot of money. They’re gonna need more funding than wikipedia to survive. I think Wikipedia already has enough funding to survive for quite a while.
Edit: What I means is, for every $5 wikipedia needs, archive.org might need like $50
So if you want to help both, the ratio of donations should be at least 10 to 1 (ratio between archive.org and Wikipedia)
Wikipedia is a good cause, but I feel like archive.org is in dire need of fundings.
Then English wikipedia is only about 100GB (excluding videos), archive.org is in the TERABYTES with some report of it being in PETABYTES. They need funding to keep up the maintenance of their storage and backups, and for the bandwith for people to access it. They’ve been attacked by hackers a few months ago so they’ll need better security and that might cost money. They are under constant lawsuits over alleged copyright issues, lawsuits cost a lot of money. They’re gonna need more funding than wikipedia to survive. I think Wikipedia already has enough funding to survive for quite a while.
Edit: What I means is, for every $5 wikipedia needs, archive.org might need like $50
So if you want to help both, the ratio of donations should be at least 10 to 1 (ratio between archive.org and Wikipedia)