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Most of what they do is host the work of others, who are not paid. It seems more than a little obscene that a corps 300 employees are splitting 31 million, for
by QAPereo 9y ago
Most of what they do is host the work of others, who are not paid. It seems more than a little obscene that a corps 300 employees are splitting 31 million, for the task of overseeing a 2mil hosting operation.
They spend more on processing donations than hosting. They give away about 5x as much as they do on hosting. What value are these people adding beyond the cost of hosting the repository built by people who are not paid?
- revelation 9y agoI mean, that's what the complaint is about. People think when they donate it's to ensure the Wikipedia keeps running and is maintained. In reality most of that money is feeding an insatiable beast that has very little to do with "running Wikipedia".
- Alex3917 9y ago> Most of what they do is host the work of others, who are not paid. Have you actually read their annual report lately? I don't follow what they do at this point, but the last time I checked many of their contributors were paid.
- QAPereo 9y agoUnless they’re one of the 300 employees splitting that salary, winning awards, or under the ~3mil of specialist services.... If the latter, then they still account for a fraction of the budget. Bull. Shit. An operation which could be run for about 5 mil is running an order of magnitude higher for no discernible change in service.
- tonyztan 9y agoThe vast majority of people who write Wikipedia articles are unpaid. We are all volunteers, writing with our own time. In fact, paid editing must be disclosed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_di....