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In 2014, Jimmy Wales was confronted with allegations that WMF had "a miserable cost/benefit ratio and for years now has spent millions on software development without producing anything that actually works". He acknowledged that he had "been frustrated as well about the endless controversies about the rollout of inadequate software not developed with sufficient community consultation and without proper incremental rollout to catch show-stopping bugs".<ref>{{Citation |title=User talk:Jimbo Wales |date=2014-08-29 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=623290239 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2022-12-03}}</ref>
During the 2015 fundraising campaign, some members of the community voiced their concerns about the fundraising banners. They argued that they were obtrusive and could deceive potential donors by giving the impression that Wikipedia had immediate financial problems, which was not true. The Wikimedia Foundation vowed to improve wording on further fundraising campaigns to avoid these issues.<ref>{{cite news|first=Caitlin|last=Dewey|title=Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=December 2, 2015|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710021353/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/|archive-date=July 10, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite this, the Foundation has continued to come under criticism for running campaigns seemingly designed to "make
In February 2017, an op-ed published by ''[[The Signpost]]'', the [[English Wikipedia]]'s online newspaper, titled "Wikipedia has Cancer",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed&oldid=1026368793|title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed|date=June 1, 2021|via=Wikipedia|access-date=February 18, 2022|archive-date=February 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218014903/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2017-02-27%2FOp-ed&oldid=1026368793|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Guy|last=Macon|title=Wikipedia has cancer|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer|access-date=October 14, 2019|archive-date=November 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120164416/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer|url-status=live}}</ref> produced a debate in both the Wikipedian community and the wider public. The author criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for its ever-increasing annual spending, which, he argued, could put the project at financial risk should an unexpected event happen. The author proposed to cap spending, build up the endowment, and restructure the endowment so that WMF cannot dip into the principal when times get bad.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joon Ian Wong|title=Reddit is going nuts over Wikipedia's spending, but it's doing far better than its competitors|url=https://qz.com/978416/reddit-is-going-nuts-over-a-post-named-wikipedia-has-cancer/|work=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]]|date=May 8, 2017|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709215712/https://qz.com/978416/reddit-is-going-nuts-over-a-post-named-wikipedia-has-cancer/|archive-date=July 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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