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Nah, just companies that profit from Wikipedia (hello Google!) and non-profits should pony up. Why shouldn't a person doing great work to make sure Wikipedia ru

Nah, just companies that profit from Wikipedia (hello Google!) and non-profits should pony up. Why shouldn't a person doing great work to make sure Wikipedia runs smoothly get paid when there's so much money going around? Google should "adopt" 150 of their employees, MSFT 50, Facebook 50 and so on. It's tax deductible too...

dahdum 9y ago
Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/conferences, and other mostly unrelated expenditures. I don't donate to them from an effective altruism standpoint, every year I've read their spending plan and decided there are far better places to give. If they only spent on the core Wikipedia platform and support - I'd donate every year.
- hackuser 9y ago
  > Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/conferences, and other mostly unrelated expenditures What is that based on?
  - dahdum 9y ago
    It's all public, so in their financial reports: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Report_-_FY15-16.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikim... For 2016: 2.3M on travel/conferences 11.3M on grants (2x 2015 levels) 31.7M on salaries/wages Their plan is here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan If you check the staffing plan: Engineering +9% Community Engagement +15% Advancement (fundraising) +35% Legal +35% HR/Finance +23% Communications +175% It's not a struggling organization. People are giving them barrels of cash so they expand their scope to spend it, then ask for even more the next year.

dahdum 9y ago

Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/conferences, and other mostly unrelated expenditures. I don't donate to them from an effective altruism standpoint, every year I've read their spending plan and decided there are far better places to give. If they only spent on the core Wikipedia platform and support - I'd donate every year.

hackuser 9y ago
> Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/conferences, and other mostly unrelated expenditures What is that based on?
- dahdum 9y ago
  It's all public, so in their financial reports: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Report_-_FY15-16.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikim... For 2016: 2.3M on travel/conferences 11.3M on grants (2x 2015 levels) 31.7M on salaries/wages Their plan is here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Annual_Plan If you check the staffing plan: Engineering +9% Community Engagement +15% Advancement (fundraising) +35% Legal +35% HR/Finance +23% Communications +175% It's not a struggling organization. People are giving them barrels of cash so they expand their scope to spend it, then ask for even more the next year.