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Wikipedia has not [sic] problem paying for storage What do the near-constant donation drives cover then?
by starpilot 16y ago
Wikipedia has not [sic] problem paying for storage
What do the near-constant donation drives cover then?
- Lewisham 16y agoBandwidth, servers and staff. Storage is most certainly not their problem; the English language Wikipedia is only about 5TBs of text. That's cheap.
- natep 16y agoActually, it seems like a roughly even split between salaries+wages, internet hosting, in-kind expenses, operating, travel, and deprecation (in 2007, at least, because it was easiest to find)[1]. Wikimedia may not be a publicly traded company, but they do release their financials. [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/49/Wikimedia_2007_fs.pdf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/49/Wikime...