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> Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/con

> 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.