poVoq@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years agoWikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?www.dailydot.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down14
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkWikipedia is swimming in money—why is it begging people to donate?www.dailydot.compoVoq@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 4 years agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·4 years agoI’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?
minus-squareAgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-24 years agoAny nonprofit should be required by ;aw to publish their revenue and expenses. Change my mind.
minus-squarepoVoq@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer Has some more details.
minus-squareAgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 years agoMirror in case it gets taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210410163603/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
minus-squarebirokop@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 years agoI mean it’s been up for like 5 years i doubt it’s gonna dissapear now.
minus-squareghost_laptop@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 years agoyeah, 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
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?
Any nonprofit should be required by ;aw to publish their revenue and expenses. Change my mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer Has some more details.
Mirror in case it gets taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210410163603/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
I mean it’s been up for like 5 years i doubt it’s gonna dissapear now.
Perfect, thx.
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