The for-profit media don’t release photos under freely available licenses. So we’re looking at those images being under copyright for ~100 years.

Licenses do matter, just like open source.

If it’s really that important to people, they should be able to raise donations for that program in particular.

Raising funding for Wikipedia, then diverting 90% of the funds for pet projects is dishonest at best, and most likely fraudulent.

The other problem, is that the projects wikimedia foundation has historically funded have a notable political bias, to the point where it has been accused of being a pseudo-PAC.