It is not a lot of money when you consider the amount of value it generates in terms of fostering relationships between volunteer developers and providing assis

It is not a lot of money when you consider the amount of value it generates in terms of fostering relationships between volunteer developers and providing assistance to interested first-time participants who later go on to make meaningful contributions to the MediaWiki software stack. Here is a detailed breakdown of the costs associated with the most recent hackathon, and some of the things that came out of it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Repo...