The hosting expenses associated with the Wikimedia foundation are, according to their financial report [0], 2.3 million USD. Hosting their servers is actually t

The hosting expenses associated with the Wikimedia foundation are, according to their financial report [0], 2.3 million USD. Hosting their servers is actually their smallest expense item, other than "Special event expense, net". As a comparison, they spend 52.1 million on salaries, wages, awards, and grants. I'd disagree with your statement that they could not reasonably develop and host a top-10 website with the amount of money that they're raising, and if they needed to, they could significantly cut down on expenses and still keep everything running. [0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/financials-leadership/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/fin...