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> I think they must count ~100 engineers? https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ has t
by whym 7y ago
> I think they must count ~100 engineers?
https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ has the names of 379 employees. I believe (perhaps astonishingly) that is all - engineers and non-engineers combined. Their engineers spread across departments, but judging by the 141 instances of the string 'engineer' in that page, I'd be surprised if the number exceeds 200.
- sprafa 7y agoThat’s what happens I guess when you’re running a charity, you can recruit top talent (I assume many 10x folks wouldn’t mind working for wikimedia!) and every dollar counts. Pretty incredible.
- wolco 7y agoThey seem to be at the leading edge of hiring remotely and they don't pay anywhere near facebook salaries. The culture must be attracting some strong developers.
- kemayo 7y agoSpeaking as someone listed on that page, and having attended all-hands meetings, yeah, we're not huge. Though it is worth bearing in mind that everything's open source, and there's a hefty community component. So there's a more vaguely specified number of people who might provide patches, and individual wikis are mainly run by volunteers.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoJust drop by and say thanks you. Not many worldwide charity for human knowledge. Add oil.