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Those have all been true for more than a decade, since Wales was bragging on TED that they only had one employee and everything was volunteer driven. The scale
by fatbird 9y ago
Those have all been true for more than a decade, since Wales was bragging on TED that they only had one employee and everything was volunteer driven. The scale of the operation has grown, with some necessity, but the mission is the same and doesn't require exponential growth in dollars.
- stinkytaco 9y agoWikimedia had expanded in that time, adding projects like wikibooks, and similar properties. It's also become a target for parties that want to manipulate it, but has been surprisingly resilient to that. I'm not sure if that all requires this level of growth, but its use and importance have grown exponentially. I can't think of many places that deserve those funds more, really.
- elect_engineer 9y agoI am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". Re: "It's also become a target for parties that want to manipulate it, but has been surprisingly resilient to that" not a penny of the budget deals with parties that want to manipulate Wikipedia. That is dealt with by unpaid volunteers like me. --~~~~