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I mean in the revenue and expenses sections in the infobox, it shows two statistics data, which is even unhelpful in most cases among Wikipedia articles in terms of consistency. As a result, I would like to change from two lines of those in the infobox to only one line depicting the latest statistics. 14.185.37.16 (talk) 10:30, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marking as "answered" until consensus for this change is demonstrated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Knowledge equity grants

As a layman I have no idea what a "knowledge equity grant" is or why it would be controversial. The section makes no attempt to explain this.

Reading the source it's clear these are some kind of social justice grants, that the source argues is outside the scope of where Wikipedia funding should go to.

This should probably be put into the article. 195.99.42.18 (talk) 19:51, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think that you may be right. 2A02:3030:A92:9B2B:AC8B:8E0C:91D2:CD04 (talk) 20:10, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

prorata.ai / gist.ai / Wikipedia finances

As I understand prorata.ai's claims about it business model, using gist.ai as a search engine and finding content from Wikipedia should result in a financial transfer to (probably) the Wikimedia foundation.

Is there a good way of testing whether that's true? If it is, what are the advantages and disadvantages to Wikipedia from publicising it?

If the disadvantages are sufficiently severe, then someone should delete this section and tell me about it, possibly citing 'your edit to Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation', to avoid repeating the details.

ArthurDent006.5 (talk) 23:59, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Political science

I found this subject really hard please help me to understand easily 2409:408A:8E37:586F:32A6:E0D0:AD80:4571 (talk) 15:53, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific? What are you having difficulty with? 🌊 oceanloop 16:00, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you can have a look at wikibooks:Subject:Political science. Peaceray (talk) 16:51, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]