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> 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:
by microcolonel 10y 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 10y agoMy mistake. What about revenue, though? It looks to be growing as fast as expenses if not faster
- microcolonel 10y 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 10y agoidrosen is pretty clear these numbers aren't that scary, though.
- microcolonel 10y 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.