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The table of spending vs. revenue suggests revenue is growing just as fast as expenses. There's nothing here about the trends of the amount of traffic over time
by openasocket 9y ago
The table of spending vs. revenue suggests revenue is growing just as fast as expenses. There's nothing here about the trends of the amount of traffic over time. And if there was, the cost of hosting and developing a system vs the amount of traffic is can take is not a linear relationship.
- microcolonel 9y ago> There's nothing here about the trends of the amount of traffic over time. Yes there is. 2005: > So, we're doing around 1.4 billion page views monthly. 2016: > According to the WMF, Wikipedia (in all language editions) now receives 16 billion page views per month.
- openasocket 9y agoMy mistake. What about revenue, though? It looks to be growing as fast as expenses if not faster
- microcolonel 9y agoThe version of the article on the signpost lacks the table of figures, if you go to the version on his user page, it paints a clearer picture [0]. idorosen has posted a table on the root thread which adds a column for the expense ratio (1 minus the margin) and it's getting much higher much quicker [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287495
- openasocket 9y agoidrosen is pretty clear these numbers aren't that scary, though.
- microcolonel 9y agoWell, try to draw a trend line through the operating margin and tell me it's not that scary. I think that it's pretty scary if your permanent, ongoing financial commitments are growing to match your revenues. This way, you have no cash to react to intermittent expenses or R&D. And let's remember that Wikipedia is already doing more donation drives than ever.