I am the author of the Wikipedia Essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I would prefer that this thread have that title (it was recently changed to "Wiki

I am the author of the Wikipedia Essay "Wikipedia has Cancer". For the record, I would prefer that this thread have that title (it was recently changed to "Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth". I would also note that focusing on hosting costs pretty much ignores the point of my essay, which is the exponential growth of spending and the dependence on future exponential growth in revenue.