Like, I’d happily give them $5 to never show me the prompt again for a year. Happily. But they’ll continue to show you prompts unless you have an account that you log into and suppress.
And they already have cookies so they can show you how many times they’ve interrupted you to show you the nagware (at least they did last year), so it isn’t like they couldn’t set a cookie to not annoy me.
But as the article says, the money doesn’t go to the people that actually maintain Wikipedia, most of it doesn’t even go to the costs of hosting or employing engineers to keep it going. It goes to a huge staff of people, many of which are focused solely on fundraising.
That’s fine. Do you. But don’t try to guilt me into donating when I’m just trying to read a thinly-sourced page about some movie because the layout is preferable to IMDB. Especially if you are going to still bug me after I donate.