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poVoq@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?

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Wikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?

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poVoq@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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Wikipedia has more money than you would imagine, given the desperate, pleading nature of the site's advertisments.
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    I’d really like to see the breakdown of their budget. One of their VPs estimates that they could be fine on $10M USD / year, even that sounds high… how many people work for WMF?

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      Any nonprofit should be required by ;aw to publish their revenue and expenses. Change my mind.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer Has some more details.

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        Mirror in case it gets taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210410163603/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

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          I mean it’s been up for like 5 years i doubt it’s gonna dissapear now.

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        Perfect, thx.

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      yeah, and h0sting and shit shouldn’t be too high, they have mostly text [even if it’s a looot of text] and low quality images

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