Wikipedia cries poverty to readers while hoarding $287M, burning millions on travel, salaries, and vague “awards”

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This is not a new trick. Charities, NGOs, even universities have long played the same game, crying poor to the public while hoarding endowments and spending lavishly behind the curtain , but Wikipedia’s case cuts deeper, because it built its reputation on the promise of openness, transparency, and public service. Instead, the foundation has quietly grown into a midsize corporate bureaucracy, swollen with staff whose actual connection to the encyclopedia is tenuous at best.

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