just put up a big picture of jimmy wales at my funeral and cut a coin slot in the top of my coffin for donations

like, leaving bequests to non-profits in your will is kind of a normal thing for rich people to do....but the people with enough assets to want to leave Wikipedia money in their will are not the same people using a service like Free Will, so its a bit of an incoherant suggestion

this would be so fucking funny. can you picture a whole family, their faces dropping as the executor reads the declaration that their vast fortune is going to wikipedia

I'm gonna put "give $3 to wikipedia every december" in my will.

Wikipedia can inherit my fortune, but only if it personally attends my funeral.

This isn't that unusual imo?

Many charities (in the UK at least) receive a very substantial fraction of their funds from gifts in wills- to the point where these places will usually advertise a no-obligation will-writing service to encourage you to do so.

An autism charity wrote my will in my late 20's. I'm pretty sure it's legally nonbinding tho-

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Look. There's absolutely an audience for the kind of Reddit sysadmin stickler that would want to fund The Web, even after death. To blindfire that request to a general population, however, may indicate a little bit of a lack in social awareness.

For me it’s the call to action button

Wikipedia has plenty of money and does not actually need donations enough to be worth popping up a giant banner for it, although it looks like they toned them down last year? I'm not actually getting one to look at. At any rate, ads for a will right after donating for their promise to never have to run ads...sure is something. Not sure what something. A lie something, maybe.

It's a practical consideration Jimmy has your address now

for a sec i thought they meant ensuring that the exeggutor of your will updates your wikipedia page after you die

doing ineffective altruism. donating a yacht to a five-year-old with leukemia. dropping bitcoins from a helicopter over remote Alaskan native villages. $7 billion to the Connecticut Trolley Museum

• @who_shot_jgr, 27/11/2022

That's like some billionaire estate tax write off shit

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