Support WikiCritic
Every AI assessment costs real money to produce, and the project takes no advertising. You cannot donate yet—this page explains what donating will buy, so that when it opens you already know.
What a donation buys, in assessments
An assessment is seven independent calls to a large language model, one per criterion, each grading the whole article and its lede against a written rubric. Measured over 57 runs: a median of 29¢, ranging from 13¢ to 79¢ for a long article.
So the arithmetic is unusually plain. $10 is about thirty-four articles assessed. Not thirty-four articles' worth of overheads, salary and hosting—thirty-four articles.
Reading an imported comment costs a few cents more. Serving the site costs almost nothing, and nobody is paid.
Sponsored assessments
The intended shape, once payment exists: you buy credits, each redeemable for an assessment of an article of your choosing, and each credit is a single-use link you can give away. Somebody who cares about one article can pay to have it graded; somebody who cares about Wikipedia can hand the links to people who care about one article.
A sponsored run will have its own budget, separate from the site's monthly ceiling, so that a reader who has paid cannot be blocked by our own spending limit and a runaway import cannot consume money somebody bought.
What we will not do
- Advertising. A site that judges other people's neutrality cannot sell attention.
- Charging to read. The grades and the commentary are the point; putting them behind a payment would defeat it.
- Charging to submit. A review is a contribution, not a purchase.
- Selling a better grade. Paying for an assessment buys the assessment, not its outcome—and who paid for a run is recorded and shown.
There is no way to give money yet.
When there is, it will appear here, and this paragraph will say what happened to it. In the meantime the most useful thing you can do costs nothing: publish a review of an article you know something about and send us the link.