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I think this Wikipedia donations thing gets posted every few months on HN. I think, I myself might have shared the same thing earlier this year. One interestin
by busymom0 5y ago
I think this Wikipedia donations thing gets posted every few months on HN. I think, I myself might have shared the same thing earlier this year.
One interesting thing I noticed when I last shared it was that their server costs had somehow disproportionately grown as compared to the number of pages served compared to a decade ago.
- sofixa 5y ago> One interesting thing I noticed when I last shared it was that their server costs had somehow disproportionately grown as compared to the number of pages served compared to a decade ago. There's probably much more video, photo and audio content nowadays than a decade ago. Not to mention a decade of historical revisions on each page.
- aezell 5y agoExactly. Number of pages is almost meaningless. The system stores a diff of every edit, forever. That includes diffs between binary objects like images and videos. Increasingly, what's being stored is metadata about the content within those pages. Not to mention projects like Wikidata [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page] which is storing "structured knowledge" about literally everything.