It was a grift from the very beginning, long before woke shit became fashionable. Jimbo Wales has a long storied history of trying to monetize his status as Wikipedia's founder, including using the Wikimedia Foundation's credit card to pay his bill at a Russian "massage parlor".
Why does an online encyclopedia spend twice as much on "addressing the racial inequities" than hosting it's servers? Who knows.
It was a grift from the very beginning, long before woke shit became fashionable. Jimbo Wales has a long storied history of trying to monetize his status as Wikipedia's founder, including using the Wikimedia Foundation's credit card to pay his bill at a Russian "massage parlor".
Maybe the owner was thai? It doesn't get more 'adressing racial inequalities' than supporting a thai entrepreneur in russia