Does The NY Times Donate To Wikipedia For Being A Massive Source Of Information?

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Every journalist I've spoken to since 2006 uses Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder. Funnily enough, there's a distinct lack of donations to the Wikimedia Foundation from newspapers and media organisations. How much did the New York Times …

David Gerard in the lead, and Fred Bauder in the comments.

We're such a boring and predictable Wikipedia support (and critique) community, aren't we?

Plenty of journalists and newspapers are laughable today, and even some of the problems they have, could be fixed by using lowly Wikipedia. Some of them do NOT use it. That's how bad they are. Not only are they bad, but arrogant and bad, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html

If your obit disagrees with Wikipedia on when men first landed on the Moon, you probably should check out a third source.