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What the hell? Why do they need my money if they have 50 Million dollars in cash or cash equivalents? Am I reading that right? And who the hell are their emplo

What the hell? Why do they need my money if they have 50 Million dollars in cash or cash equivalents? Am I reading that right? And who the hell are their employees that are getting paid 33 million dollars a year? How many employees are there? EDIT: Reading a related comment's linked OP-ed, it appears that the Wikimedia Foundation spends a lot of money on non-wikipedia things. That is disturbing to me. I would like to donate to Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Wikimedia may or may not be worthwile (I'm simply not familiar), but it isn't where I want my money to go.

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twohlix_ 9y ago
They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable. Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.
- eximius 9y ago
  Not crazy, no, but surprising that they have ~300 employees.
cerved 9y ago
Somone I went to college work works there
katastic 9y ago
If you look into it, Wikipedia actually looks very dangerously run. They have consistently added more and more "community organizers" and other PR people, and actually ran on only TWO full-time software developers for years. It's no wonder the interface never gets any better. They spend a TINY fraction of their funds on actually delivering their only asset... content. It only cost them 2 million of their 80 million budget to host Wikipedia for 2017. They spend the same amount... on travel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Report_-_FY16-17.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikim... And there are "culture" employees making more than the tech: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

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twohlix_ 9y ago

They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable. Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.

eximius 9y ago
Not crazy, no, but surprising that they have ~300 employees.

cerved 9y ago

Somone I went to college work works there

katastic 9y ago

If you look into it, Wikipedia actually looks very dangerously run. They have consistently added more and more "community organizers" and other PR people, and actually ran on only TWO full-time software developers for years. It's no wonder the interface never gets any better. They spend a TINY fraction of their funds on actually delivering their only asset... content. It only cost them 2 million of their 80 million budget to host Wikipedia for 2017. They spend the same amount... on travel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Report_-_FY16-17.pdf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikim... And there are "culture" employees making more than the tech: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...