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That's way more effort than writing some text. That kind of content doesn't make itself for free.

This. If we get tools that enables simple creation of video/interactive assets then Wikipedia will get those more. As a life long graphics geek and programmer, currently the content creation ecosystem is not really on "bicycle" level - more like unicycle while juggling chainsaws - although it's getting better. I mean I've done graphics stuff all my life, and would be quite lost how to "do a quick animation" in something closer to 15 minutes than 15 hours or 15 days.

I think we have Adobe to thank for stagnation in creator tools. There are smaller, harder to find companies doing pieces of the work (i.e. Photopea for Photoshop) and lots of video editing apps that have grown up around Instagram and TikTok. Blender is great for 3d modeling and more.

http://wickeditor.com open source Flash replacement for 2020

But they get millions of dollars in donations every year.

They don't spend money paying people to create content. Volunteers create that content for free.

of which about $0 goes to actual content creators.

They don't pay people to create content directly but in their most recent annual report they state that 32% of their expenses are supporting the community.

> The Wikimedia projects exist thanks to volunteer communities around the world that create and maintain them. We strengthen these communities through grants, programs, events, trainings, partnerships, tools to augment contributor capacity, and support for the legal defense of editors.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2019-annu...

mneh... these expenses include things like the disastrous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Fo... and other similar projects which the existing community was not consulted on and have tenuous effects on actually attracting and retaining contributors.

Is there a charity dedicated to making short CC0 instructive videos of fundamental concepts? That seems like a worthwhile cause.

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