Because the money goes straight to jimmie wales' pocket (that's what "non-profit" means, as opposed to "for-profit" businesses where the money has to go back to the business).
The colors don't matter they just tell you that the numbers go up every year
The takeaway is that the largest expense is salaries
Followed by awards and grants
Hosting the actual website is 8th on the list
Hardly any of the money they accrue goes towards the website
i'll be honest, i thought i saw a comma and a decimal there, and assumed it was monthly and the salaries were averages or something
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Anonymous
When i take the costs of my own projects and extrapolate it to the size of wikipedia, i would land somewhere around those 2.7 million yearly.
You have to consider that wikipedia is easy to cache, it's not like social media platform where every user always sees his individual feeds.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Feeds are just interpolation of highly cached contents though.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Wikipedia is absurdly easy to cache. Without manual cache invalidation, I'd say you could have a TTL of at least 24 hours and barely degrade the service. With manual invalidation, the whole thing could be cached indefinitely
i'm sorry that someone sane is watching the pages to make sure cum guzzling communist chinks and israelites such as yourself are trying not to rewrite history or are attempting to create pages about themselves.
>those are large sums for this rather small foundation.
strange thing to post considering they are largely anti-right
> anti-right
lmao. you wish it was, commie chink. it's biggest problems are retards that sit on pages like they own them, not the site. when you are smart you can edit whatever you like. problem with chinks, poltard pedophiles and associated human filth is that they're so poorly educated that they can't even edit a wiki page without being outed as a brainwashed communist.
>hosting expenses remains basically the same since 2012 >salaries and awards to god knows who skyrocket to millions of dollars >plz donate we are barely holding on uwu :((
What a fucking scam.
>Black Cultural Archives, United Kingdom: Black Cultural Archives is a Black-led archive and heritage center that preserves and gives access to the histories of African and Caribbean people in the UK. They are the recipients of a one-year $290,000 USD grant. Their goals with this grant for the coming year include increasing research into their collections, as well as increasing the breadth of their collections for research. Another aim is to play a leading role in supporting a network of archive organizations that champion Black British history, and finally, they hope to develop programmatic work that provides access to their less traditional archive material; VHS tapes and cassettes that contain a large amount of information on Black British cultural history. This grant will be an important step in continuing to support archival work and increasing access to historical records.
what a waste of fucking money
Just a reminder that Wikipedia's parent company owns Fandom - aka all the pop culture wiki's, who were forcibly removed during editor wars a decade ago from Wikipedia and then brought back slowly over time - which is so infested with ads that it is unusable without adblock.
Wikipedia is not for sale.
It is owned by [REDACTED].
Wikipedia is used by [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] never needs money.
[REDACTED] spends more money every month running the Wikipedia psyop than Wikipedia has ever received through donations.
Wikipedia is helping [REDACTED] keep money out of your dumb goyim hands.
>israel is a roman cross used to kill God's Son
I hate the cross is le Christianity meme
Israel are Abraham's seed and God's chosen people. The tribes were scattered and effectively integrated themselves in most major cultures, and even then gentiles can still be adopted into that great family.
There can be no symbol that represents Israel other than a depiction of Christ himself.
please understand
Pay up, lil Timmy Wales needs another holiday home
Because the money goes straight to jimmie wales' pocket (that's what "non-profit" means, as opposed to "for-profit" businesses where the money has to go back to the business).
That is not what either of thise mean
That quite literally is what those things mean, child.
Glowie black budgets.
it has managed to beg me into no longer using it, and this been working out just fine
what do you use instead
Chat gpt 4.0
good morning sir
use the wikiless frontend
rewriters of history need to eat too
Those poor, attacked and ostracized freedom fighters, slava ukraini
lol if true
I'm colorblind and can only see like, 5 colors besides black and white. What the hell does this mean?
The colors don't matter they just tell you that the numbers go up every year
The takeaway is that the largest expense is salaries
Followed by awards and grants
Hosting the actual website is 8th on the list
Hardly any of the money they accrue goes towards the website
would hosting really be so little though? i dont imagine it would be shit tons but more than a few thousand
very little. wikipedia can probably run on a $50/month aws setup, with a cdn and everything.
wikipedia gets most of their hardware donated to them
>so little
2.7 million isn't little.
i'll be honest, i thought i saw a comma and a decimal there, and assumed it was monthly and the salaries were averages or something
When i take the costs of my own projects and extrapolate it to the size of wikipedia, i would land somewhere around those 2.7 million yearly.
You have to consider that wikipedia is easy to cache, it's not like social media platform where every user always sees his individual feeds.
Feeds are just interpolation of highly cached contents though.
Wikipedia is absurdly easy to cache. Without manual cache invalidation, I'd say you could have a TTL of at least 24 hours and barely degrade the service. With manual invalidation, the whole thing could be cached indefinitely
Hosting for text and pictures is dirt cheap.
It only gets somewhat expensive when you're serving video or large downloads.
i thought wikipedia had a fair amount of videos as well (though mostly in low quality)
still pretty low overall
what are they paying people to do?
figure out the best way to misrepresent facts
i'm sorry that someone sane is watching the pages to make sure cum guzzling communist chinks and israelites such as yourself are trying not to rewrite history or are attempting to create pages about themselves.
strange thing to post considering they are largely anti-right
The majority of the mods are openly communist
Holy shit, those are large sums for this rather small foundation.
Spending 2 million in conferences yearly and over 20 million in awards.
>those are large sums for this rather small foundation.
> anti-right
lmao. you wish it was, commie chink. it's biggest problems are retards that sit on pages like they own them, not the site. when you are smart you can edit whatever you like. problem with chinks, poltard pedophiles and associated human filth is that they're so poorly educated that they can't even edit a wiki page without being outed as a brainwashed communist.
>lmao. you wish it was
it is
do think the opinions of chinks and poltard pedophiles.. matters? never has.
you're very weird
"Ukraine" lost
What goes does "awards and grants" do?
Sounds like they are just re-donating the donations?
Where we at? Bloat? Budget cuts?
>hosting expenses remains basically the same since 2012
>salaries and awards to god knows who skyrocket to millions of dollars
>plz donate we are barely holding on uwu :((
What a fucking scam.
>those salaries
>for a site that almost entirely operates on free labour
Lol
Lmao
Pedophilia doesn't pay well
It does. People are ready to pay millions to watch cp.
The israelite begs you for change as he sticks the shiv into your guts.
he lost, chud
They frauded him fair and square. Crazy that elections weren't already rigged enough as it was hahaha
That's numerology, not math.
It's statistic applied to numerology, which is indeed math.
They have over 700 stomachs to feed.
The Platinum Chip is not for sale.
Hand it over
Hey guys if everyone reading this donates just 3$ I will be hitting my goal
Ty
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund
>Black Cultural Archives, United Kingdom: Black Cultural Archives is a Black-led archive and heritage center that preserves and gives access to the histories of African and Caribbean people in the UK. They are the recipients of a one-year $290,000 USD grant. Their goals with this grant for the coming year include increasing research into their collections, as well as increasing the breadth of their collections for research. Another aim is to play a leading role in supporting a network of archive organizations that champion Black British history, and finally, they hope to develop programmatic work that provides access to their less traditional archive material; VHS tapes and cassettes that contain a large amount of information on Black British cultural history. This grant will be an important step in continuing to support archival work and increasing access to historical records.
what a waste of fucking money
>black british cultural history
so, fish n chips but they pour ketchup and hot sauce on it?
they are unironically trying to tell people african salves built the UK from the ground up, like they do in the USA
Just a reminder that Wikipedia's parent company owns Fandom - aka all the pop culture wiki's, who were forcibly removed during editor wars a decade ago from Wikipedia and then brought back slowly over time - which is so infested with ads that it is unusable without adblock.
what is donation processing and why is it 6m?
accountancy fees, fees incurred by payment processors passed onto wikipedia, etc. huge amount of money.
they have to count the money, you have to get a trustworthy middleman, and even so it can't be cheap
at least our parents had the fun of chasing encyclopedia salesmen off with brooms
Honestly wikipedia's begging is vastly preferable to ads, paid subscriptions or selling user data.
you are a cuckold
Wiki is a wing of US establishment left politics.
They're giving away user data away to the organizations and working with the political entities to push propaganda in all its forms.
go piss up a rope chud
They don't need to do any of that.
They get plenty of money and mislead people about it so they can get more to donate to causes they want to support.
Establishment left propaganda site
Only 1% goes to hosting the website. They spend more on diversity and inclusion. I have read their donation reports.
I do not use the wikipedia. I haven't used it even accidentally for a long time. If they go away completely, good.
>grassroots funding is le bad! its only good when the government pays out billions to corporations in subsidies!
Why do you hate Wikipedia so much, and what do you use then? Britannica?
No, Encyclopedia Dramatica. TOW is garbage.
So they can increase the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion budget
i fucking hate vector 2022 and no i will not make an account
because despite having a surplus of tens of millions from their yearly begging, they always always need more money
>y-you only had a 5% so p-please don't scroll
lol
I haven’t used it at all this year so do they owe me 3$ now?
Wikipedia is not for sale.
It is owned by [REDACTED].
Wikipedia is used by [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] never needs money.
[REDACTED] spends more money every month running the Wikipedia psyop than Wikipedia has ever received through donations.
Wikipedia is helping [REDACTED] keep money out of your dumb goyim hands.
>israel is a roman cross used to kill God's Son
I hate the cross is le Christianity meme
Israel are Abraham's seed and God's chosen people. The tribes were scattered and effectively integrated themselves in most major cultures, and even then gentiles can still be adopted into that great family.
There can be no symbol that represents Israel other than a depiction of Christ himself.
technology
>he doesn't know about the khazarian impostors
Because its extremely useful to people and its a nonprofit