You deserve an explanation, so please don't skip this 1-minute read. It's Tuesday, September 29, and our fundraiser won't last long. We know that—at the Foundation—we were donating to union-busting firms. If you've lost count of how many times the WMF has decided to screw around with its editors and employees, we don't blame you. We wanted you to forget our missteps after Framgate. But we never said that we wouldn't engage in union-busting or override consensus on Wikipedia. Please donate $2.75 or whatever you can to help these efforts to entrench Wikimedia sites into bureaucratic hell; you would join the 2% of readers who give, probably not knowing what they're supporting. And if they ever decide to stop supporting us, we will make it hell to stop their donation, and pester previous donators to support WMF enshittification further. After 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we promised, but at the WMF, we're personally not happy with that. We need to make this as bad as we can. By visiting Wikipedia today and donating, you're choosing an internet where the WMF, a "non-profit", chooses to act like corporate powers. You're choosing the enshittification of the internet. Because the Wikimedia community could NEVER fork. Most readers don't donate, and we're still wondering why; so, your gift matters. Please give today. #parody #satire #wikipedia #wikimedia