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Wikimedia does much more than just host Wikipedia. Even if they didn't host Wikipedia I would personally gladly donate to their legal and lobbying efforts.

Only in Sweden where I live they have greatly contributed to freedom of panorama and ensuring public domain material remains in the public domain when digitized. They work towards things like these all across the world.

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That's fine, but I'm not interested in giving them money for anything other than making sure the website is running and has the support staff it needs. Their fundraising material makes it look like the money will be used for that when the reality is it will be used for other, practically unrelated things.

I mean freedom of panorama is pretty directly related, as wikipedia needs to have users be legally allowed to upload images.

Thanks for pointing that out, but I see that as more evidence of deception. If I'm asked to donate to keep wikipedia free, I don't expect my donations to go to political lobbying on issues that I may or may not care about, and may or may not even agree with.

Actually both of the cases in question started as legal cases in which Wikimedia funded the defense of users who were being sued for contributing.

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