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Not claiming to know more than you about this but your point assumes that the changing cost of maintaining the project at scale has some proportional relationsh
by mpalmer 7y ago
Not claiming to know more than you about this but your point assumes that the changing cost of maintaining the project at scale has some proportional relationship to the number of edits.
As it has attracted global attention and ever more significant influence on people worldwide, Wikipedia's threats are likely more varied and insidious than they were in 2004. The cost of offsetting these threats may not relate to the volume of edits.
- wyattpeak 7y agoI certainly don't claim any domain knowledge, but the growth in expenses is so vast that I'm disinclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm not, by the way, suggesting that a 3200x growth in expenses is inherently unjustifiable, just that it should in fact be justified.
- mpalmer 7y agoYes, agreed that it should be justified in the open.